About This Book

About This Book

Each chapter in this book follows the traditional Exam Cram structure, containing graphical cues that flag important or useful exam information. Here is the layout of a typical chapter:

• Opening hotlists At the beginning of each chapter is a list of the terms you need to understand and the techniques you need to master to thoroughly understand the subject matter of the chapter. Following the hotlist is a brief introduction to the chapter that prepares you for the following material.

• Topic breakdown Following the opening hotlists and introduction is a series of topics that break down the chapter's subject material into manageable chunks of information. Throughout the chapters, we highlight important information that is likely to appear on an exam. This information is highlighted using an exam alert:

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  Exam alerts, similar to this one, can be found throughout the chapters in this book. An exam alert is used to highlight information pertaining to a concept, term , task, or tool that is likely to appear in some form on the exam. Alerts highlight information that you should note carefully . This alert information also appears on the Cram Sheet.

  
  

  In addition to exam alerts, this book also offers tips and notes, both of which are used to flag information that is important to the topic currently being discussed but may not necessarily appear on the exam. In general, we attempt to use tips and notes to point out information that can be important to the day-to-day operation of the environment.

• Practice questions Near the end of each chapter is a section containing sample exam questions demonstrating both correct and incorrect answers, along with explanations as to why a particular answer is correct or incorrect.

Besides the study material, which follows the layout presented in the preceding list, two complete sample exams are included in Chapters 16, "Practice Exam 1," and 18 "Practice Exam 2." They provide an opportunity to review the material presented in the book and help to ensure that you are ready for the exam by covering all of the different information discussed. Chapters 17 and 19, respectively, provide answers for the questions found in Chapters 16 and 18.

The final study aid available in this book is the tear-out Cram Sheet attached to the inside front cover of this book. This Cram Sheet contains a condensed collection of facts and tips that we feel are worth having at your finger tips during the study process and should be thoroughly understood prior to taking the exam. The small size of this sheet makes it an ideal refresher sheet to review prior to taking the exam or wherever you may be when preparing for the exam.