Certifications are an important part of most IT professionals’ careers. Now, with more offerings than ever, which ones can help you most?
Will Cert21’s Web-based practice exams lead you to certification success?
- By James Carrion
- 01/01/2002
Boot camp training, spying on coworkers, and tips for preparing for the CISSP exam.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 01/01/2002
There are some good tidings for those who think the slowing economy is translating to even fewer IT jobs.
- By Kristen McCarthy
- 01/01/2002
Are you an NT 4.0 MCSE who has passed most, but not all, of the seven required exams for your Windows 2000 MCSE? If so, you may have achieved your Win2K certification without even knowing it.
Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.
- By Joseph L. Jorden
- 01/01/2002
The ISO17799 is a group of policies that would be well worth your time to get to know.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 01/01/2002
Windows XP started out of the gate with a bang, selling more than 7 million copies in the first two weeks of its release, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in November.
Dismissing patterns as a programming buzzword is missing the point. Recognizing them during the design phase can help you in the long run.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 01/01/2002
If XP’s in your future—and the minute you buy new desktop systems, it probably will be—use these strategies to get the most out of Microsoft’s newest OS.
Finding out that .WSF scripts—based on XML—allow you to declare just about anything can be a flexible timesaver.
- By Chris Brooke
- 01/01/2002
Web Services will evolve as it meets the real world.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/01/2002
Getting an MCSE on Windows 2000 is hard enough when all your senses are working fine. But when one of them isn’t—especially sight—the task is doubly or triply hard.
This month, Greg and Steve address the value and importance of certification vs. good, old-fashioned experience.
- By Greg Neilson
- 01/01/2002
A TechNet article that blames the messengers, not the source, for Microsoft’s security lapses gets Auntie seeing red.
When setting up a network, forgetting the concepts of scalability and centralized management can have costly consequences down the road.
- By Mark England
- 01/01/2002
The 2002 Salary Survey from Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine
- By Kristen McCarthy
- 01/01/2002
Microsoft issued patches for two flaws affecting users of its SQL Server database. One of the flaws could allow an attacker to run code on a compromised machine.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/27/2001
FBI's NIPC rates the new Windows XP security hole dangerous enough to issue its own warning; Gartner says the vulnerability means the enterprise should hold off for 3-6 months in deploying XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/27/2001
Microsoft Corp. this month sued the company that is developing the LindowsOS software over alleged trademark infringement.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/27/2001