MCDST Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-272): Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on Microsoft® Windows® XP, Second Edition (Pro-Certification)

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MCDST Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-272): Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on Microsoft® Windows® XP, Second Edition (Pro-Certification) Feature

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCDST Exam 70-272—and on the job—with this official Microsoft study guide, fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2. Work at your own pace through a system of lessons, hands-on exercises, troubleshooting labs, and review questions.

The Readiness Review Suite on CD, featuring advanced technology from MeasureUp, provides 425 challenging questions for in-depth self-assessment and practice. You can choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on specific objectives. You get expert exam tips and detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning how to:

• Configure, customize, and support Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Office Outlook
• NEW—Configure and support Microsoft Internet Explorer, including Pop-up Blocker and other new features
• Troubleshoot usability, customization, and connectivity issues
• Manage application security permissions and settings
• UPDATED—Set up and troubleshoot Windows Firewall and monitor antivirus software
• NEW—Keep your applications current with Microsoft Update and Automatic Updates

Your kit includes:

• 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside.
• Fully reengineered self-paced study guide with expert exam tips.
• Readiness Review Suite featuring 425 questions and multiple testing options.
• Case scenarios and troubleshooting labs for real-world expertise.
• NEW—120-day evaluation version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition with Service Pack 2.
• Fully searchable eBook.
• Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security eBook.
• Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, Second Edition, eBook.

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The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

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Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel (with CD-ROM, InfoTrac, and Decision Tools and Statistic Tools Suite)

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Master data analysis, modeling, and spreadsheet use with DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL! With a teach-by-example approach, student-friendly writing style, and complete Excel integration, this business statistics text provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Margin notes, boxed-in definitions and formulas in the text, enhanced explanations in the text itself, and stated objectives for the examples found throughout the text make studying easy. Problem sets and cases provide realistic examples that enable you to see the relevance of the material to your future as a business leader.

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Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET (Microsoft Professional)

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With the clarity and precision intrinsic to the Test-Driven Development (TDD) process itself, experts James Newkirk and Alexei Vorontsov demonstrate how to implement TDD principles and practices to drive lean, efficient coding—and better design. The best way to understand TDD is to see it in action, and Newkirk and Vorontsov walk step by step through TDD and refactoring in an n-tier, .NET-connected solution. And, as members of the development team for NUnit, a leading unit-testing framework for Microsoft .NET, the authors can offer matchless insights on testing in this environment—ultimately making their expertise your own.

Test first—and drive ambiguity out of the development process:

• Document your code with tests, rather than paper
• Use test lists to generate explicit requirements and completion criteria
• Refactor—and improve the design of existing code
• Alternate programmer tests with customer tests
• Change how you build UI code—a thin layer on top of rigorously tested code
• Use tests to make small, incremental changes—and minimize the debugging process
• Deliver software that’s verifiable, reliable, and robust

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Debugging Applications for Microsoft® .NET and Microsoft Windows® (Pro-Developer)

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You get huge development advantages with Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET 2003—but you need a new bag of debugging tricks to take full advantage of them in today’s .NET and Win32® development worlds. Learn lethally effective, real-world application debugging techniques for .NET Framework 1.1 and Windows with this fully updated programming guide. Debugging expert John Robbins expands the first edition of his classic debugging book with all-new scenarios and bug-killing tools, tips, and techniques. You’ll see every .NET and Windows debugging scenario here—from XML Web services and Microsoft ASP.NET to Windows services and exceptions. Along with John’s expert guidance, you get more than 6 MB of his battle-tested source code—for the tools and tactics you need to ship better software faster!

Topics covered include:

• Where bugs come from and how to think about solving them
• Debugging during coding
• Operating system debugging support and how Win32 debuggers work
• Advanced debugger usage and .NET debugging with Visual Studio .NET
• Advanced native code techniques with Visual Studio .NET and WinDBG
• Extending the Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment
• Managed exception monitoring
• Flow tracing and performance
• Finding source and line information with just a crash address
• Crash handlers
• Debugging Windows services and DLLs that load into services
• Multithreaded deadlocks
• Automated testing
• The Debug C run-time library
• A high-performance tracing tool for server applications
• Smoothing the working set
• Appendixes: Reading Dr. Watson log files, plus resources for .NET and Windows developers

CD-ROM features:

• 6+ MB of professional-level source code samples written in Microsoft Visual C++®, Visual C#®, and Visual Basic® .NET
• Debugging Tools for Windows
• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK
• Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT)

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

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Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications

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Get the essential, straightforward information you need—and master the core topics for debugging applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Debugging expert John Robbins offers practical answers to real-world development questions, including code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic. You’ll learn the debugging techniques and tools to debug more efficiently and help ensure top-quality code.

Discover how to:

• Arm yourself with tools and techniques that contribute to long-term success in the debugging battlefield
• Implement John’s practical debugging process to sniff out bugs—including “freak” bugs
• Catch bugs during development with assertions, tracers, and comments
• Set advanced breakpoints in your debugger to specify exact trigger conditions
• Use the Watch window, Data Tips, and Visualizers to see key data quickly
• Employ other debugging tools, such as WinDBG, SOS, and ADPlus
• Write macros and add-ins to extend the Visual Studio integrated development environment
• Debug with Code Analysis—and learn to write your own rules

PLUS—Get code samples on the Web

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Operations Analysis Using Microsoft Excel

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This book offers practical approaches to managerial decision making using spreadsheets. The operations management problems reflect overall organizational issues and integrate other functional areas such as marketing and finance. This book presupposes only a familiarity with Microsoft Excel to learn both basic and advanced techniques.

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The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (Best Practices (Microsoft))

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This practical, hands-on guide captures, categorizes, and builds a process of best practices to help avoid creating defects during the development process—rather than fixing them after extensive analysis. While there are various proprietary and competing standards for reducing software defects, these methods suffer from issues involving timeliness, effectiveness, and cost. What’s more, many other books focus on fixing errors after they’ve been introduced or promote idealized academic theories. This guide, however, presents practical methods for reducing defect introduction through prevention and immediate detection and by moving the detection of defects closer to their introduction. Written by experts with over a century of software development experience among them, this book distills hard-won lessons into a single, workable lifecycle process that will help deliver better-quality software. Visit the Defect Prevention Web site at http://www.defectprevention.org

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