Free Downloads MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing, Configuring, And Administering Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional: Installing, ... Second Edition (Pro-Certification)

                
              
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MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing, Configuring, And Administering Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional: Installing, ... Second Edition (Pro-Certification)
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCP Exam 70-270—and on the job—with this official Microsoft study guide, now fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies plus other key topics. 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 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: Perform an installation or upgrade, including remote deployment Configure and customize the desktop environment Administer disks, device drivers, printers, file systems, and other resources Manage TCP/IP networking and support remote and mobile users Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune system performance NEW!—Administer security settings and services, including the advances in Windows XP Service Pack 2 Readiness Review Suite on CD Powered by MeasureUpYour kit includes: NEW—15% exam discount voucher from Microsoft. (Limited time offer). Details inside. NEW—Fully reengineered self-paced study guide with expert exam tips.  NEW—Readiness Review Suite featuring 425 questions and multiple testing options.  NEW—Case scenarios and troubleshooting labs for real-world expertise.  NEW—120-day evaluation version of Windows XP Professional software with Windows XP Service Pack 2. NEW—eBook in PDF format.  NEW—Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security eBook.  NEW—Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, Second Edition eBook. A Note Regarding the CD or DVDThe 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.
Series: Pro-Certification
Hardcover: 1394 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2nd edition (March 9, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735621527
ISBN-13: 978-0735621527
Product Dimensions:  7.5 x 2.6 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
Average Customer Review:  4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)
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The 70-270 XP exam requires in depth preparation to pass this exam. It is a 58 question exam, with only 50 being scored.Having recently took this exam and using this book, you can safely assume I am qualified in reviewing this book.Firstly, for a book this size, you would want it to contain all areas of the exam. Sadly, it doesn't, and the student is left graping for external sources simply because the book doesn't even touch on them. IIS and vPN material is so scarce, I had to go through the book a few times to see if really was in the book. It wasn't. There may have been a time when this book was all you need, but the exam has been updated so much and changed that is more difficult than its initial release.Secondly, the book reads like a technical manual at times, as though the help files from XP have been trimmed out and put into the book. Hence, the writing still is not very effective for those who need real life scenarios (which are exactly in the exam) instead of dry step by step instructions.Where the book does have strong points is that it's errata page has only a few minor errors, so what it says, it says right.Also, the included practice exams are a VERY BIG help if you are studying for this exam. Created by Measure Up, if you were to buy a Measure Up product directly from them, it would be very expensive. You should then consider buying this book simply because the included exams and questions will help you ALOT more than the book itself to pass the exam.I recommend the XP Professional FAST PASS in addition to this book for it cover areas where this book falls short, and also the Fast Pass book explains things much easier on the mind than this book, and has great tables and charts for tricky areas.
If you want to learn about installing, configuring and administering XP Professional on a network, I think this is a very good book to have. This book prepares you to take exam 70-270. It covers the material very thoroughly with twenty chapters devoted to theory and seven chapters devoted to practicing for the exam. Actually, the last seven chapters were very helpful in learning the subject. These chapters present questions covering all objectives of the exam with an explanation of both the correct and the incorrect answers. You need to be aware that the questions don't simply cover material presented in the first twenty chapters. Quite to the contrary, they present new information that adds to your knowledge base. The questions were of high caliber being verbose and somewhat difficult. This is what you want to prepare for the exam.As a bonus the enclosed CD offers hundreds more questions using the MeaurseUp testing engine. I found the questions to be very good. They were difficult and required a bit of thought to answer. They also include good explanations for both the correct and incorrect answers - very helpful for learning. But, I must say that several of the questions were wrong - only a few, and there were way too many typographical errors. I really think that MeaurseUp (the company producing the question engine) needs to vet their products better.Overall, I found the book and CD combo to be a great value.As a side note, XP Professional will remain relevant for some time to come. It is true that at this time Vista has been out for five months now, but many businesses will not upgrade immediately and many will just clone XP to their new machines. So you still need to know XP perhaps while learning the new OS on the block.
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