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Jan 31, 2006, 11:07 PM
 
I am looking to become Apple certified at all possible levels. Can anybody point me to a set of manuals and where to purchase them that will help me achieve this goal.
     
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Feb 1, 2006, 12:22 AM
 
     
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Feb 1, 2006, 12:58 AM
 
Originally Posted by waffffffle

I'm looking for books and training materials. Not Apple classes. I can't afford pay Apple thousands of dollars when I can probably buy a book, study it, and then pay $150 dollars to take a test.
     
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Feb 1, 2006, 01:20 AM
 
Peachpit Press books, I think the series is called something obvious like "Apple Pro Training Series". Should be easy enough to find at your bookseller of choice. I believe the OS Certification was written by Owen Linzmayer. I don't know if they have 'em for the sysadmin-level stuff..
     
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Feb 1, 2006, 01:41 AM
 
For ACSA level you get the books in the class. Over time they will be transitioning the textbook to the Mac OS X System Administration Reference book. So far only the security class uses it as the text but the Directory Services class will soon. I'm not sure about Xsan or Deployment.
     
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Feb 1, 2006, 05:21 PM
 
I've asked Apple -- the books used in the classes are not available elsewhere. The aforementioned Pro Training Series books are good, though, for the topics available.

(I'm in the same predicament as you.)

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Feb 1, 2006, 08:21 PM
 
I've been randomly studying for one myself, mainly the desktop and powerbook one plus on OS 10. You can get the $299 Apple Care Training that is supossed to prepair you for the tests. After that you schedule a test at a Prometric testing center. This is what I've been told, I haven't taken a test but you can see the tests on the Prometric website.
     
   
 
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