MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-648 & 70-649): Transitioning Your MCSA/MCSE to Windows Server 2008 |  | Authors: Orin Thomas, Ian McLean Dr
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Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exams 70-648 and 70-649—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover the objectives from both upgrade exams. Then, reinforce and apply what youâve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time. Maximize your performance on the exams by learning to: - Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 addressing and services
- Enable remote and wireless access, authentication, and Network Access Protection (NAP)
- Use server roles to encrypt data and protect intellectual property
- Manage disaster recovery, software updates, and network traffic
- Identify and troubleshoot performance issues on local and remote computers
- Configure and support Terminal Services
- Configure a Web services infrastructure using IIS 7.0
Assess your skills with the practice tests on DVD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies. Your kit includes: - 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/13. Details inside.
- Official self-paced study guide.
- Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
- 500+ practice and review questions.
- Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
- 120-day trial of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.
- Webcasts from Microsoft experts and sample chapters from related Microsoft Press books.
- Fully searchable eBook of this guide.
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 An excellent guide to improve your knowledge and to pass the exam November 27, 2009
Oleksandr Tovstolis (Ukraine)
The book helps you to obtain a strong knowledge of new technologies and tools delivered with Microsoft Windows Server 2008. I read an "Introducing Windows Server 2008" by Mitch Tulloch and several experts from Microsoft before, and I thought that I am ready to pass the 70-649 exam. But after reading the 70-648/649 Training Kit, I realize that I was wrong. However, that book is also very useful and interesting (after its reading I have successfully introduced my first Windows Server 2008 installations).
The Training Kit is full of very useful information on the key improvements of Windows Server 2008 like AD RMS, AD FS, Windows Deployment Services, KMS, etc. The book provides sufficient information (as well as several references to other resources) to plan and deploy the corresponding services in your production IT infrastructure.
Of course, it also has some bugs like the information that Entreprise CA is supported only in Enterprise and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2008. The Standard Edition also supports this type of CA. However, such bugs do not change a positive relation to the book. They even stimulate you to check the information in the real world...
The materials of the book and practice tests enclosed are also adequate source to the exam preparation.
I have pass the exam 70-649 from the first try with a nice result. I have not used any other preparation guides,
have not bought any practice tests, etc. And after reading the book and passing the exam I feel that I have a strong knowledge of Windows Server 2008.
The only one suggestion is that a new revision of this book should be even more helpful if it will reflect some changes in Windows Server 2008 R2 that are sometimes very important. For example, Windows Backup utility in R2 is m
Excelent! February 15, 2010
Kamila Maffezzolli (Brazil)
This book is just EXCELENT!
The exercises helped to understand better the content, wich is explained so well.
Authors scored a birdie on this one. May 18, 2009
Aaron (Grand Rapids, MI United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
For the most part, this book follows the same structure as most other Microsoft Press books. The practice tests are just like those you'll find with any of the other Microsoft books that were published in the last year or so.
They also made some nice improvements to the layout. There are more notes on pages, and overall much more readable format than in some other Microsoft Press books I've read in the past.
I also liked how in within the chapter they gave the overview of step-by-step instructions in paragraph form which makes it a littel more readable. Then, when you get to the practice section at the end of the chapter, they have the step-by-step instructions where it's more appropriate.
 Helpful in passing 70-649 exam July 17, 2009
Steven L. Umbach (Bartlett, Il United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I recently passed the 70-649 exam with good scores and this book, 70-648/70-649 Transitioning Your MCSA/MCSE to Windows Server 2008 Trainng Kit, was very helpful. However the text of this book alone, nor any other, most likely would not allow one to pass the 70-649 exam that covers a lot of territory via 3 in 1 exam. But if you have several hours [let's say over 100] minimum hands on experience with Windows 2008 exploring it's capabilities and developing expertise for, either on the job or in your training lab, including Active Directory and Roles/Features covered by the exam and remember most of what you learned obtaining your MCSE 2003 you are well on your way to passing the 70-649.
The labs in the book were helpful if you do not have hands on with the topic or want more in depth as were the URL links to additional info sources if you feel you want more detail as configuration info in some cases was sparse BUT keep in mind that there are entire dedicated books covering topics on most of the chapters in this book . Some of the topics such as ADFS and ADRM are very complicated. I did not do the labs in total for those, other then installing the roles and configuring them as much as I could, but read through them until I understood what was being accomplished. The questions on the exam for those topics did not expect you to know configuration in great detail but you need to know in general what they are used for, high level how they work, the flow of the processes, and how authentication is accomplished.
The exam focuses heavily on what is new with Windows 2008 and assumes you have retained your MCSE 2003 knowledge about networking, DNS, Group Policy, Active Directory, forests, global catalog server, trusts, sites, replication, etc. If not I suggest you also study with the Microsoft Press books for 70-640 and 70-642 or if you want some extra reinforcement on those topics.
I found that IPV6 in the book to be a bit overwhelming as in "do I really need to know how to subnet IPV6 and all the interim solutions such as Toredo". There were no hard IPV6 questions on the exam and I believe I had only 1 question. Knowing basics such as what is the IPV6 equivalent of an IPV4 private/public/APIPA address and how to troubleshoot IPV6 connectivity using basically same tools you use for IPV4.
I found the chapter on IIS7 very helpful in learning the new management interface, which has been totaly revamped, and new features such as management delegation and additional configuration for application pools such as recycling, and was all that was needed for the exam. There were also plenty of command line examples for IIS7 and other topics throughout the book and you will see a fair amount of those on the exam where you need to choose the correct command for a task.
The exam places great emphasis on security including what remote solutions need only port 443 TCP open in the firewall, certificates needed for SSL and implementing client trust for such certificates, solutions for revoked certificates, which authentication methods use certificates, CA types and hierarchy to use, distributing certificates to internal and external computers/users, Terminal Services, minimizing risk of having a domain controller in a branch office, and when to use ipsec/EFS/Bit Locker for a stated scenario and which one accomplishes the task. I felt the book did a good job covering those topics.
In addition to this book it would be well worth your while to study Microsoft documentation on what is new in Windows 2008, and individual what is new papers such as for Terminal Services. I felt that I easily got my moneys worth with this study guide.
EDIT 09/05/09: I recently completed my MCITP for Server Administrator and Enterprise Administrator. As the Microsoft Press books mention using Hyper-V to create virtual machines was extremely helpful in my learning process. I found that the ASRock A780GXE mainboard [around $80] with the latest bios update and using a AMD Phenom II quad core processor worked great for Hyper-V and has 4 RAM sockets. Don't assume any modern mainboard or processor will support Hyper-V. Hyper-V is easy to learn. Just remember to install the Hyper-V Integration Services on any guest OS you install right after the install to get networking and the mouse to work correctly! I believe you also need SP2 for W2003 and SP3 for XP for Integrations Services to install.
 Where is the advertised companion DVD? April 6, 2010
B. Day (Boston, MA)
I'll be happy to come back and write be a more thorough review once I finish the book, but be aware this book may not come with the companion DVD and practice tests it is advertised as having. My book only came with eval versions of Server 2008 in 32-bit and 64-bit, but no Companion DVD. I don't believe this is Amazon's fault as pages xxvi through xxviii tell you how to install and use the Companion DVD and the back cover talks about practice tests, but the DVD doesn't appear to exist.
I have emailed Microsoft Press to see if they have an official answer.
*edited on 4/14/2010*
MS Press gave me the # to their suplemental parts department. The woman I spoke with there (nice lady) said nobody had called in for this book before so neither ISBN 13/10 numbers were in their system. They have to add the book to the system and then will look up the DVD and get me a copy if they can find it. They'll contact me when they have more information, but said since the book wasn't in the system yet it could take up to a couple of weeks.
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