i purchased this book based on the on-site reviews. although it must have worked for some, not this cook. i enjoy the kitchen a lot and consider myself pretty good at it --- just a bit bored and restless with my current menus. this was just way too stuffy. or perhaps the new phrase is "way too martha". yick. the menus are dated and boring. oh well, i tried.

The photos in this book are really gorgeous and the recipes do work. However -- there is NO WAY one person could make any of the full menus in just an hour! I would say that each individual dish takes at least an hour -- doing a whole Martha menu is a major undertaking. Another problem -- many of the ingredients are hard to find (even in the sophisticated greater Boston area!) and she relies heavily on fresh herbs in practically every recipe, which is just not practical for me. Not only is fresh sorrel unavailable in any store I know of, but even sorrel SEEDS, so you can grow your own sorrel, are hard to find!

I didn't know how to cook to save my life when I bought this book...this and the Silver Palate cookbook were the first I ever used. I found the recipes here easy, and have had great results...the only downsides are that some of the ingredients are expensive and hard-to-find if you don't live in a major city, and, even 10 years later, they still take longer than an hour to prepare.

But who cares? I'm a sucker for cookbooks with lots of glossy photographs, and I don't care what anyone thinks, I love Martha. If you do, too, then you will enjoy this book.

Beware this exam is set to retire. Do not use this book as your only means for preparing for the Workstation exam. It is also very similar to the Server Exam Cram, as both tests are somewhat similar as well. The book does have good questions at the end of each chapter, but you still need another resource to prepare you for the exam, I used Alan Carter's Windows NT 4.0 MCSE Study Guide. You also need to get hands on experience.

When studying for this cert I had the official Microsoft Textbooks open beside this book. There are alot of errors and conflicts in the information provided in the ExamCram book and the real MS text. Another bad thing are the practice tests that come with the core 4 exam cram books. While taking the practice tests for workstation i was getting wrong answers on the tests which directly conflicted with information given in the book. Ie - the book claims the only true upgrade to Workstation 4.0 will come off the NT platform ( Win NT Workstation 3.5 and 4 ) which is also supported by the MS text. Yet answer this way on one of their sample test questions and you will of a sudden find that you are wrong because according to the test a true upgrade path also exsists for Win 3.1 and 3.11 for workgroups ( A DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE TEXT!! ) All in all this isnt a good way to prepare for the real test.

I found this book a helpful resource in filling in on some topics I don't cover daily in my job. It was a helpful refresher on several subjects. This book is VERY similar to the Server Exam Cram by the same publisher but does provide enough Workstation specific details to make it worthwhile. I've noticed a lot of people are down on this book because it isn't a "complete" resource for the exam. Well, it isn't. No book I've found can replace the hands-on experience you need to succeed in this field. Don't expect to be able to read any book and be completely successful. Do your self a favor and get the job experience first. I will buy from the Exam Cram Series again.

Basically this book is the same as the NT Server 4 book with a few extra topics thrown in. It does not come close to covering the material you need know to pass the test. This was surprising to me considering the quality of Corolis's other MCSE books. If you really want to pass get ahold of a copy of Microsoft's official curriculum for the test.

I passed the Enterprise Exam comfortably using this book as my primary study guide (with a little help from O'Reilly's Core Exams in a Nutshell, not to mention 3 years of OJT). It is helpful and worth the money. Contains lots of test questions in individual chapters and in two comprehensive tests at the end. If you have other NT4 books in this series, be warned that there is a lot of redundant material. And, like them, it contains quite a number of errors, both in the text and the questions, some rather egregious. As of this writing, no errata are available on the Coriolis web site, although I sent them an extensive list a week ago. And the chapter on printing is a complete mess - should be tossed and rewritten. The main difference between this edition and the previous one is the addition of a second practice exam and separate section devoted to scenario-type questions. Bottom line - useful, but watch for the errata list.

Exam Cram for the Enterprise test does what it is supposed to do well. This book alone will not be enough for most of us to pass the exam. I used Alan Carter's book as my main study vehicle along with my in house network lab. It covered some important points that were not in Alan's book such as pusle settings. There is little fluff in this book and a lot of highlightable material. It did a great job on domains, trusts, global groups, and local groups which are of prime importance in the exam. For me the book was worth the price alone for the two sets of practice exams and the set of scenario questions that really let you know if you know the material or not. A great book to take to work for quick reviews.

Had Borges ever read this classic detective novel? I'm not suggesting Innes bursts the boundaries of his form like Borges or Chesterton. On its most obvious level, this is a typical product of Golden Age detective fiction - conservative, obviously ideological, a puzzle-like mystery solved by a socially and intellectually superior detective, archly written, set in a socially acceptable milieu (an Oxbridge college) full of the right people, with amusing instances of outright snobbery. But if he doesn't burst his genre's limits, Innes certainly seems to nag at them. Because, in his almost complete abstraction of plot to the exclusion of meaningful character or locale ; in his filtering of third person objective narration with the voices of the narrated; in his continual self-referentiality; in his meaningful allusinism which both focuses on the genre, but also well away from it; in, most importantly, casting doubt on his detective hero and offering a very unsatisfactory solution, Innes seems to be edging towards a position that would allow Borges to launch his metaphysical fantasies, thus undermining the very fundamentals of the genre he's working in.

I've been using the Exam Cram series to get me through the MCSE curriculum with a lot of success so far, but this book fell far short of what I've come to expect -- particularly in terms of the review questions, which often did not adequately reflect the material covered, and sometimes just made no sense at all. There's actually a question on page 98 that asks which of the following does Windows NT's basic authentication scheme NOT do: a) encrypt the password; b) encrypt the username; c) encrypt both username and password; or d) none of the above. Anyone with a rudimentary grasp of logic can see that c) and d) are fundamentally identical answers, yet the book claims only d) is the correct response. Duh?

Now they've come out with the Adaptive Testing edition of the IIS 4 Exam Cram book, which I think may have just been an excuse to get this edition off the shelves.

Try the adaptive testing edition instead. While I haven't read it, it's got to be better than this one.

This book plus the Transcenders testing software is a good combination to pass. Those two with a little hands-on and you should pass this test. I got an 854 out of 1000 on the test without too much effort. DO read up on ODBC error messages (SQL) as it was heavily tested. This book does not delve into much depth on that subject. Otherwise a good buy, especially used.

I passed the test with an 854 out of 1000 using only this book and the Transcenders plus some hands-on time in IIS 4.0 . My best EXTRA piece of advice is to go to Microsoft's web site and look at what the exam will test on. I got a lot (3 or 4 out of 55 questions) of ODBC error messages questions (SQL) on the version of the test that I took (non-adaptive version) and this book did not delve very much into this area. Other than that, it was very good.

I'm not a student using this book, so I can't give any opinions of it in that aspect. But I can tell you this book definitely is not as useless as others have implied. If you don't understand the basic concepts of Windows 2000 before diving into this book, of course it won't make any sense. Anyone attempting to pursue MCP/MCSE should have years of prior experience. That's the problem with all the MCSEs. They are certified only because they can remember certain information. If you truly know what you're doing, this is a good book.

Don't let the unanswered questions at the end of each chapter scare you off. As an ancient zen master once said, "Seek not to find the answer, but to understand the question."

This book is very well written with easy to follow hands on exercises that introduce you to the new Windows 2000 Professional components. It assumes some basic knowledge of course, but you shouldn't be going for your MCSE unless you have that experience anyways. Included CD is great for practice tests, and the text has very few misprints. Those that I have found are contradicted along the way (with the correct info) so you are able to pick them out. Great Tips that prevent you from falling into common traps.

I guess there's always some people that just HAVE to complain about perfectly good things. Take this book for example; I think it's great! These guys are whining about , "oh...the answers aren't given for the review questions..." HA! Who cares? I had no problems. It's called, "understanding the concepts", and yes, you might just actually have to READ the chapters to get the concepts and info. down. After you do that then it doesn't matter how they ask the questions on the tests, because you actually understand what's going on, as opposed to just memorizing text book answers. This book provides what you need to know about Windows 2000 Pro, and getting certified. Ofcourse, the best way to learn is by listening to your instructor, taking notes, and hands on experience, but as far as books go, I have no problems with this one. And no, I don't work for the company that made this book in case you were wondering.

One of my favorite parts of this book is the CD-ROM that came in the back of the book (don't know if all of them come with it though). It creates scenarios, which allow you to do labs in a simulated Win2k application. For example, it will have you set up consoles using the MMC, set up a RAS, perform administrative functions, etc. So far this book is impressive. I recommend it.

I had passed the 4 core NT 4.0 exams on the first try. I bought this book and the "Guide to Proxy Server 2.0" by Course Technology to study for my 5th MCSE test. These books are exact duplicates of each other (notice they have the same author). And both are not worth the paper they are printed on.

They often repeat the same subject in different chapters in different ways, such that I had to flip back and forth between chapters to try and figure out what they were trying to say. But even so, the information seemed conflicting (I can't tell you for sure because after reading the book twice, I don't feel I understand Proxy Server 2.0).

But since I did well on the questions, I figured I could pass the MCSE test. Wrong...I failed. The questions on the real test did not resemble those found in the book. I have used other Exam Cram books and found them worth while, but this one was a waste of my time.

I am an MCSE and like many people have never bothered to write a review... but this time I felt I had to - this book wasted too much of my time. The material covered is not close to the test - the test and review questions in the book (which you will score high in if you read the book) are in NO WAY related to the Microsoft test of Proxy Server 2 and are repetitive and contradict other chapters in the book. On the other hand the Transender Exam questions are spot on - if not a little expensive... I will never buy another book by Exam Prep/Cram or any of these authors

I'll probably just borrow some material from my review of the corresponding Exam Cram review, and the general point of that is, the lack of talent and ability among the test takers should not reflect poorly on this book. The book worked, very well. I passed my Proxy test nearly three years ago and I am only writing this review to defend the book, which is well worth the cost.

Before using this book, and the Exam Cram that goes with it, I had never used MS Proxy 2.0 and I never used it afterwards. I had limited exposure to MS Proxy 1.0 and that had been nearly a year prior. I used the Exam Cram and Exam Prep books to study for about a week and walked in and passed the test with flying colors. These books work, and they work well. The Proxy Server 2 elective is one of the easiest certification tests that I have ever taken and I believe that using these books is a large part of what made it so easy. If you don't have a strong understanding of TCP/IP and the concept of caching before going in, then maybe you should try another elective for your MCSE (or preferably another career field, you're an embarrassment to this one.)

The material presented in this book is solid and the review questions should be followed. If you can handle this book you can handle the test.

This book is poorly written with numerous mistakes. I'm disappointed I purchased it and I plan on using another company (Sybex Network Press) for the remainder of my studies. The subject matter is difficult enough without having to determine if the author's information is correct.

I used Exam Cram books to help me pass five MCSE exams. For the last test, I thought I might try out the Exam Prep series. Big mistake! The list of errors from Coriolis' website is 17 pages long, not to mention two rather large files that have been left off of the CD. The text is poorly written, though the book is rather long, there seems to be very little useful information in it. There are more practice questions at the end of every chapter, but there are no explanations included with the solutions. Read the other reviews and heed their warnings. This book stinks.

I really enjoyed this book, I don't know why everyone does not like it. There were some mistakes but this book went into great detail and was written well. I also took an instructor-lead IIS class and I feel I got more from the Exam Prep book than the class. I used the Transender for my final study and passed the IIS test with an 800 in about 20 minutes. I don't think anyone should expect to get everything they will need to answer every question on a Microsoft test from one book. This book will provide you with what you need for a good understanding of IIS and enough information, if applied to some lab work, to easily pass the test.