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EXAM PREP GUIDE
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCITP Exam 70-443—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:
- Install, consolidate, and configure multiple database instances
- Design tables, file groups, and indexes for a physical database
- Develop and implement security policies at the server, database, and object levels
- Design, implement, and configure clustering, log shipping, database mirroring, and replication
- Create plans for data archiving, data backups, and disaster recovery
PRACTICE TESTS:
Assess 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.
- 375+ practice and review questions.
- Case scenarios, practice exercises, and best practices.
- 180-day evaluation version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.
- 20 Webcasts with 25+ additional hours of instruction.
- Fully searchable eBook of this guide.
About the Author
J.C. Mackin, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, has 10+ years' experience with Microsoft networks and is an IT consultant, trainer, and author.
Mike Hotek is a SQL Server® expert with three decades' experience as a consultant and solution developer. He has written several books, including Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Step by Step.
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Format:Hardcover
In addition to the experience I gained using SQL Server and the SQL Server Online Help and other on line ressources, this book was the only one I needed to read to pass the exam.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A well written exam guide, and a good reference as well
14 Oct 2008
Format:Hardcover
I'm just about finished my MCITP: DBA Certification on SQL 2005. So far I've done 70-431, and 70-443. I've been working with SQL Server for a number of years now, and I've recently switched over to a full time DBA position.
I read this book in about 2 weeks, and did the exam on the third week. I managed to get 910 on the exam, out of 1000. As 700 is the passing grade, I'm more than satisfied with anything over 900. Along with some kind of practice testing, this book is adequate study material. I suggest you have a lab in place so you can do the practices and test out the software for yourself. Besides just being a study guide for a certification exam, I've found myself referring back to this book several times, and it has a permanent spot on my book shelf at work. With that said, I can safely say I recommend this book to those looking to take the 70-443 exam.
Good luck!
I read this book in about 2 weeks, and did the exam on the third week. I managed to get 910 on the exam, out of 1000. As 700 is the passing grade, I'm more than satisfied with anything over 900. Along with some kind of practice testing, this book is adequate study material. I suggest you have a lab in place so you can do the practices and test out the software for yourself. Besides just being a study guide for a certification exam, I've found myself referring back to this book several times, and it has a permanent spot on my book shelf at work. With that said, I can safely say I recommend this book to those looking to take the 70-443 exam.
Good luck!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Hard test, mediocre book
24 Sep 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have passed all 3 exams using only these Study guides. This exam is the most difficult due to the format, not the material. The exam makes you read 8 pages of case study and then asks you 10 questions. The questions all conform to MS Best Practices, which is what this book is all about. Damned boring to read though, after the 70-431 title. I did this test last. Do not try to do it first. If you cannot pass the 70-431's simulation, you'd rather not waste time and expense on any other exam.
One note about the exam: each Case Study has it's own timer. I freaked myself half-way through and thought I was out of time. Raced through the case study and then promptly got another one with a reset timer. Frayed my nerves so bad I could not absorb the text. I had to sit back for 5 minutes and force myself to think about non-SQL stuff.
Concentrate on the last 2 sections of the study (Business Requirements, Technical Requirements) ... the rest is detractor.
Do not buy this book unless you plan to sit the exam. Force yourself to read it in a weekend and then just go through the cd practices.
One note about the exam: each Case Study has it's own timer. I freaked myself half-way through and thought I was out of time. Raced through the case study and then promptly got another one with a reset timer. Frayed my nerves so bad I could not absorb the text. I had to sit back for 5 minutes and force myself to think about non-SQL stuff.
Concentrate on the last 2 sections of the study (Business Requirements, Technical Requirements) ... the rest is detractor.
Do not buy this book unless you plan to sit the exam. Force yourself to read it in a weekend and then just go through the cd practices.
Good prep choice
25 Mar 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book did a good job in preparing me to pass the 70-443 exam. Out of the three exams for the MCITP - Database Administrator I found this one the hardest and would recommend that you take the 70-444 exam first as the study you do for that test will also help you on this one. While I did find that a couple of questions on my exam were not covered by any prep book for all three tests, there was more than enough to pass by a comfortable margin.
Make sure and take advantage of the prep tests included with the book, and pay special attention to the scenario based questions as the entire test is scenario based,, no simple what does this definition match up to questions on this test!
Make sure and take advantage of the prep tests included with the book, and pay special attention to the scenario based questions as the entire test is scenario based,, no simple what does this definition match up to questions on this test!
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