Product Description

EXAM PREP GUIDEAce your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-444—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:•Monitor and troubleshoot queries, databases, and servers•Help defend against injection attacks, denial of service attacks, worms, and viruses•Manage security strategies and perform audits•Detect and resolve data conflicts •Diagnose faults and recover from database failures and disasters•Optimize database availability with failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping, and replication •Customize a maintenance strategy and automate routine tasks•Build, debug, and deploy SQL Server Integration Services packagesPRACTICE TESTSAssess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.Your training kit includes:•15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/11. Details inside. •Official self-paced study guide.•Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.•400+ practice and review questions.•Case scenarios, practice exercises, and best practices.•180-day evaluation version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.•Fully searchable eBook of this guide. 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #129365 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 768 pages

About the Author
Orin Thomas, MCSE, CCNA, CCDA, and Linux+ certified, is an
author and systems administrator. He is the coauthor of several Training
Kits for Microsoft Press and a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro
magazine.

Ian McLean, MCITP, MCDBA, MCT, has 40 years of experience in industry,
commerce, and education. He's written 18 books, plus many technical
articles and papers. He currently runs his own consulting company.

Customer Reviews

This is quite poor
I don't really have motivation to write reviews normally but the poor quality of this book seems to have done the trick this time.

It seems as if the authors were given a couple of weeks to write material for this last book in the MCITP DBA exam series. They have cobbled together content (a lot copied and pasted from books online) and arranged it so that it is repetive (yet sometimes subtley inconsistent), not following any logical flow (especially the first 3 chapters) and hard to read. The worst thing is that there are obvious errors. The second book in the series was well written and very tight. This one however seems to demonstrate either a lack of author knowledge or some phenomenally poor editing. In the early chapters, there's even some content ripped off books online about notification services (not on the syllabus but seemingly included because of a ignorant books online search for how to manage database sizes)

So this book is a let down.