Windows 95 Exam Guide (Covers Exam #70-063)

By Linette Evans, James M. Blakely, Carmen M. Rodero

preparing the reader to pass the Microsoft Certified Professional exam, this is a book/software combination that provides a complete training kit for those studying to pass the MCP Win95 test. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789707446
• ISBN13: 9780789707444
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Que Pub
• Length: 844 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 2.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent material, although supplementary aid is needed.

The contents of the Exam Guide is presented well. Problem is...much necessary material is simply NOT THERE! Features appreciated: many fine illustratons, layman's language, imparts a fine 'overall' feeling about Win95. Shortcomings: only skims the surface on some very important topics, not enough real-world scenarios, upon taking one set of tests you have taken them all--they merely repeat, definitely omits areas tested on MCP cert. exam, several misprints, contradicts Resource Kit more thatn once, review (test) questions are not nearly tough enough (nothing like the real thing). With the aid of the Exam Guide, I did manage to pass on my first try. However, I used the Resource Kit along with a little networking experience. Without either, I would be re-testing, for sure!

Very Good, you should pass with no problem

This book is an excellant preperation guide for the Windows 95 exam. I also used the Networking Essentials book in the same series(see my review there). I passed the exam with a 842 on my first try. It took me about 2 weeks of study on the train every day for about 1.5 hours. The book does an excellant job on System architecture, which is something that you cant learn from day to day experience. It was very easy to understand networking and printing, which are two biggies on the exam. The only complaint that I have is that the CD only contains a computerized version of the questions and nothing else, and the fact that a lot of that chapter questions repeated themselves on the mastery and assesment tests, in fact the answers were in the same order. It was difficult to actually try to answer the question by thinking of the correct answer rather than remembering if from before. I HIGHLY suggest that you also download the two sample tests from Microsoft. These will ask you questions different from those in this book. Also for the real timid people out there, there is an Exam Cram series of books that has very good questions in them. I'm using them to supplement my NT training. There is only two other things that I can say bad about this book, one is that I payed $84 at Barnes and Nobles for it. :-( Secondly is that Que has been slow to release other books in this series and I've had to switch for my NT training. On a side note, the Microsoft Self Paced Training for 95 is also very good, but doesnt contain any questions. But if does have some real nice videos.

Better 95 study guide than most others available

I read New Rider's MCSE Win95/networking essentials book cover to cover and still felt unready for the test. I read Que's book in four days at a local bookstore and was very impressed and more importantly, very confident for the exam. Passed the first time! I feel guilty for not actually purchasing the Que book but will definately look to purchasing Que books for the other MCSE exams.

Very good book, lame CD, but passed test NO problem!

I used this book (solely) to study for and pass the exam. With NO other study materials (other than two Windows 95) systems, I passed the exam on the first attempt with a 914 out of 1000. This book is good, provided decent content, but was weighed down with questionable content such as a listing of all the files on the Windows 95 CD. [Seems to me that DIR /S is good enough for that.] Also, the CD-ROM was not as useful as I hoped. It contains a selection of poorly worded questions with typographical errors, but is basically an OK quizzing tool if you have nothing else. My opinion: Buy the book, read the chapters through twice, do the review questions in the book, and skip the other appendices and the CD