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Overview

The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating system—covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you're a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you'll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Apple’s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.

The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.

Subscriber Reviews

Average Rating: 4.5 out of 5 rating Based on 4 Ratings

"Effective Book!!" - by Buxton_Dwight on 04-JUN-2010
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This was a great and useful book. It helped me pass the exam today with a 89.44%!! The book is well written and laid out; it gets right to the point. Being less than 700 pages, I was able to complete the book in 1 month. There wasn't one question on the exam that this book didn't cover. If the reader takes their time to read the book and grasp the concepts, and go through the end of chapter questions, they will ace the exam.
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"Info is there, good read but..." - by Certifiable on 11-FEB-2010
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I enjoyed this book immensely, and the info is there to get you prepared for the ACSP test. What I did not appreciate was some rather bad typos i.e. "Mac OS X HFS+ Journeyed" (should have been "Journaled"), and various other typos, the especially bad ones were in regards to UNIX terminal commands. I also did not like the random gender assignments when discussing scenarios, i.e. "When the user logs in to the computer, what is HER next step". The author kept weaving in and out of general non-gendered examples and gendered.
All in all, a good read for the information contained. Watch out for the typos, and don't let them confuse you.

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