McSe Simulation Guide: Windows Nt Workstation 4

Rumor has it that after Windows 98, Microsoft will make Windows NT Workstation its mass-market operating system. This possibility makes documented expertise in NT Workstation all the more valuable, and the best way to prove your knowledge of this operating system and its related technologies is to become an MCSE. This book helps you master NT Workstation and pass the portion of the MCSE Core Four (70-73) on this topic.

Guided all the way by a handy fold-out table that correlates exam objectives with particular chapters, this book covers everything on the NT Workstation exam. The authors open with planning suggestions, including ideas for preparing an unattended installation on many networked computers. The two NT file systems are compared, and the authors go into depth on configuring hardware to work with NT Workstation--which is important, because unskilled users work with NT Workstation and it does not support Plug and Play. Applications get cursory coverage, including a laughably brief introduction to DCOM.

Appropriately, networking with NT gets lots of coverage. Chapters explain the mechanics of setting up groups and permissions. Microsoft networks and TCP/IP networks get a fair amount of ink, but the coverage of integrating NT machines with legacy Novell NetWare is inadequate. A companion CD-ROM holds good-quality practice-quiz software (though questions often are repeated) from Productivity Point International, a training company.