06/01/2001
June 2001 - 70-240 Win2K Accelerated Exam: Your Guide to Victory
Plus, basic specs for building your own Win2K exam practice lab.
In-Depth
You have one chance—and one chance only—to prove your expertise on Windows 2000. Here's what you need to understand to make sure you get through 70-240 victoriously.
For a thorough understanding of the 70-240 exam objectives, nothing replaces hands-on experience. Build this test lab to get your practice.
Book Reviews
Don't go it alone. Here's an exam self-study guide for the FoxPro developer.
This new study guide from Sybex can be a valuable aid in helping you pass the Win2K accelerated exam.
Need a top-end resource to help prep you for the Exchange 2000 Server MCSE exam? This Microsoft training kit may just be the thing.
This book covers the gamut of AD functionality, and has something for everyone.
Product Reviews
Built into Windows 2000, Pathping helps identify the source of slow connection problems between network hosts.
Looking for a way to run your enterprise centrally—while bringing together system configuration, compliance and control? Consider Configuresoft’s Enterprise Configuration Manager 3.5.
Can you use your PDA to monitor and control your network? Our reviewer says the time is near.
Update property settings in bulk with this useful utility.
@Microsoft
With the clock ticking on NT 4.0 certification,
now is the time to prepare yourself to take—and
pass—the Windows 2000 exams. Here’s what it’ll
take.
Call Me Certifiable
With the economy full of potholes, it’s the resourceful, the tenacious and the sociable who will enjoy the smoother road.
Drill Down
As you negotiate the tricky trail leading to the summit—your Windows 2000 MCSE certification—will New Riders’ ExamGear product provide a lifeline?
Editor's Desk
Does Infiniband have the potential to reduce the need for highly-skilled IT workers at small orgs?
Mr. Script
Taking an object-oriented approach to scripting can help your variable structure run like a well-oiled machine.
Professionally Speaking
How much training should be performed on the job?
Security Advisor
Like any security decision, choosing the right
equipment and software isn’t something you should
take lightly. If you’re looking for a “plug-and-go”
firewall for your small business—along with the
ability to set up a solid VPN—SonicWALL can fulfill
that need.
Windows Foundation
A year and a half has passed since Active Directory was unleashed, with the promise of simpler management and significant cost savings. Harry points to other less-than-obvious benefits.
Windows Insider
When it comes to keeping your system safe from hackers trying to ride a Trojan horse through your defense perimeter, a Certificate Authority can make sure everybody’s exactly who they claim to be.
News
KVM switch for operating four computers doubles as monitor stand.
IE 5, IIS 5.0, and Windows NT/2000 affected.
The demand for IT workers has slowed in the past year, but don’t panic: There are still plenty of jobs out there.
RippleTech LogCaster 3.1 provides agent-level real-time/historical performance monitoring.
Microsoft Press adds four core exam titles with CD reference libraries.
Quota Server Admin+ allows storage management via a Web interface.
Microsoft recently published information about two new exams that will serve as electives for the MCSE certification.
InstallShield provides Application Migration Practice.
MCP Magazine has learned Microsoft is in the midst of revising MCSD certification track requirements.
Coefficient monitors SQL Server 7.0/2000 activity.
One way tanking dot-coms have of paying off their debts to investors is to sell assets through auction. And therein lies an opportunity for the savvy network administrator to pick up bargains.