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If you’re seeking MCDST certification, here’s the book you need to prepare for Exam 70-271, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft XP Operating System, and Exam 70-272, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System. This revised and updated Deluxe Edition features over 200 pages of new content-including the very latest updates to the exams as well as case studies-and provides complete instruction to meet the exacting requirements of each exam. Prepare for your certification and career with this two-in-one, value-packed guide.

Inside you’ll find:

• Practical information on how to analyze problems and provide support to end users
• Hundreds of challenging review questions
• Bonus CD loaded with exam prep software, four bonus exams, Sybex test engine, and 300 electronic flashcards

Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including:

Exam 70-271

• Installing a Windows Desktop Operating System
• Managing and Troubleshooting Access to Resources
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices and Drivers
• Configuring and Troubleshooting the Desktop and User Environments
• Troubleshooting Network Protocols and Services

Exam 70-272

• Configuring and Troubleshooting Applications
• Resolving Issues Related to Usability
• Resolving Issues Related to Application Customization
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Connectivity for Applications
• Configuring Application Security

SYBEX TEST ENGINE: Test your knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes all chapter review questions plus bonus exams.

ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS: Reinforce your understanding with flashcards that can run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm device.

Also on the CD you’ll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF. Study anywhere, any time, and approach the exam with confidence.

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Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

If you’re seeking MCDST certification, here’s the book you need to prepare for Exam 70-271, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft® XP® Operating System, and Exam 70-272, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft® Windows® XP Operating System. This revised and updated Deluxe Edition features over 200 pages of new content—including the very latest updates to the exams as well as case studies—and provides complete instruction to meet the exacting requirements of each exam. Prepare for your certification and career with this two-in-one, value-packed guide.

Inside you’ll find:

• Practical information on how to analyze problems and provide support to end users
• Hundreds of challenging review questions
• Bonus CD loaded with exam prep software, four bonus exams, Sybex test engine, and 300 electronic flashcards

Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including

Exam 70-271

• Installing a Windows Desktop Operating System
• Managing and Troubleshooting Access to Resources
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices and Drivers
• Configuring and Troubleshooting the Desktop and User Environments
• Troubleshooting Network Protocols and Services

Exam 70-272

• Configuring and Troubleshooting Applications
• Resolving Issues Related to Usability
• Resolving Issues Related to Application Customization
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Connectivity for Applications
• Configuring Application Security

SYBEX TEST ENGINE: Test your knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes all chapter review questions plus bonus exams.

ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS: Reinforce your understanding with flashcards that can run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm device.

Also on the CD you’ll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF. Study anywhere, any time, and approach the exam with confidence.

Visit www.sybex.com for all of your Microsoft certification needs.

Here’s the book you need to prepare for the latest version of CompTIA’s Project+ exam. This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today’s certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the “Best Study Guide” designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:

• Clear and concise information on project management
• Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience
• Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a test engine and electronic flashcards

You’ll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:

• Project Initiation and Scope Definition
• Project Planning
• Project Execution, Control and Coordination
• Project Closure, Acceptance and Support

This book has been reviewed and approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC). Students derive a number of important study advantages with CAQC materials, including coverage of all exam objectives, implementation of important instructional design principles, and instructional reviews that help students assess their learning comprehension and readiness for the exam.

Note:CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Here’s the book you need to prepare for the latest version of CompTIA’s Project+ exam. This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today’s certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the “Best Study Guide” designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:

Clear and concise information on project management Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a test engine and electronic flashcards

You’ll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including: Project Initiation and Scope Definition Project Planning Project Execution, Control and Coordination Project Closure, Acceptance and Support

This book has been reviewed and approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC). Students derive a number of important study advantages with CAQC materials, including coverage of all exam objectives, implementation of important instructional design principles, and instructional reviews that help students assess their learning comprehension and readiness for the exam.

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SYBEX TEST ENGINE Test your knowledge with advanced testing software with drag-and-drop capabilities. Includes chapter review questions and bonus exams!

ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS Reinforce your understanding with flashcards that can run off your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm handheld.

Also on the CD, you’ll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF.

Building on the popular Sybex Study Guide approach, CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study Guide, 4th Edition provides 100% coverage of the CISSP Body of Knowledge exam objectives. Find clear and concise information on crucial security topics, practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience, and cutting-edge exam preparation software, including two full-length bonus exams and electronic flashcards. Prepare yourself by reviewing the key exam topics, including access control, application security, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, cryptography; information security and risk management, and security architecture and design telecommunications and network security.

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Gaining your CISSP certification shows you commitment to you profession and enhances your credibility and marketability in the field. Through real-world scenarios, written labs, and full coverage of the exam’s Common Body of Knowledge, these expert authors give you not only the tools you need to prepare for the exam, but the skills you need to be successful in you work. Key topics covered include access control, business continuity, cryptography, biometrics, software security testing, and much more. This updated and essential guide also offers practical advice on how to pass the exam. Inside, you;ll find:

• Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you’re getting the instruction you need for the exam
• Practical hands-on exercises to reinforce critical skills
• Real-world scenarios that put what you’ve learned in the context of actual job roles
• Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day
• Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam
• A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track you exam prep objective by objective

Look inside for complete coverage of all exam objectives.

Featured on the CD

Sybex Test Engine:
Test you knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes all chapter review questions and two full-length 250-questions bonus exams.

Electronic Flashcards:
Reinforce you understanding with flashcards that can run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm Handheld.

Also on the CD, you’ll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF. Study anywhere, any time, and approach the exam with confidence.

Before Joseph Campbell became the world’s most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates “will be long and laborious,” Frazer warns readers, “but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs.” Chief among those customs–at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination–is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.

While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism–sheer cultural imperialism, really–that finds its most explicit form in Frazer’s rhetorical question: “If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?” (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that “primitive” races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that “a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural.” And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories–”that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual” (to quote Robert Graves’s summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) “are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs.” Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. –Ron Hogan

Nature One of the greatest books. — Review

Before Joseph Campbell became the world’s most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates “will be long and laborious,” Frazer warns readers, “but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs.” Chief among those customs–at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination–is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.

While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism–sheer cultural imperialism, really–that finds its most explicit form in Frazer’s rhetorical question: “If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?” (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that “primitive” races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that “a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural.” And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories–”that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual” (to quote Robert Graves’s summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) “are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs.” Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. –Ron Hogan

Nature One of the greatest books. — Review

With Microsoft’s release of Windows Server 2008 and a new generation of certification exams, IT administrators have more reason than ever to certify their expertise in the world’s leading server software. Inside, find the full coverage you need to prepare for Exam 70-640: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring, one of three specializations in the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification track. You’ll find full coverage of all exam objectives, practical exercises, real-world scenarios, challenging review questions, and more.

Prepare for the new Windows Server 2008 certifications

With Microsoft’s release of Windows Server 2008 and a new generation of certification exams, IT administrators have more reason than ever to certify their expertise in the world’s leading server software. Inside, find the full coverage you need to prepare for Exam 70-640: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring, one of three specializations in the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification track. Inside, you’ll find:

• Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you’re getting the instruction you need for the exam

• Practical hands-on exercises to reinforce critical skills

• Real-world scenarios that put what you’ve learned in the context of actual job roles

• Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day

• Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam

• A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective

Featured on the CD

SYBEX TEST ENGINE:
Test you knowledge with advanced testing software. Includes chapter review questions and bonus exams.

ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS:
Reinforce your understanding with flashcards that can run on your PC, Pocket PC, or Palm handheld.

AUDIO+ FROM PREPLOGIC:
Accelerate your training with audio instruction that’s fully enhanced and optimized for the new generation of mobile devices.

Also on CD, you’ll find the entire book in searchable and printable PDF. Study anywhere, anytime, and approach the exam with confidence.