MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-652): Configuring Windows Server® Virtualization [Paperback]

Nelson Ruest (Author), Danielle Ruest (Author), GrandMasters (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735626790 | ISBN-13: 978-0735626799 | Publication Date: June 17, 2009 | Edition: Pap/Cdr

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-652—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve 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 exam by learning to:

• Install, configure, and optimize Hyper-V
• Prepare management infrastructure, including remote administration
  
• Create and deploy VMs and VHDs
  
• Perform physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual migrations
  
• Plan security for hosts, VMs, and resource pools
  
• Automate Hyper-V operations
  
• Configure and manage high-availability clusters
  
• Monitor and optimize performance

Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD. 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.
• 200+ practice and review questions.
• Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
• Fully searchable eBook of this guide, plus sample chapters from related books.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; Pap/Cdr edition (June 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735626790
• ISBN-13: 978-0735626799
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #374,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I passed both tests using this book, November 19, 2009

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This review is from: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-652): Configuring Windows Server® Virtualization (Paperback)

The team of Danielle and Nelson Ruest have written another fine book. Not only does it cover the material for the Microsoft 70-652 Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring exam (why didn't MS title this exam `Hyper-V', which is what it is all about???), but it also covers the material you need to take and pass the related Microsoft 70-403 System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)exam as well. I used the book to help me learn the material, and passed both of the tests without a hitch. You will absolutely need to set yourself up a Hyper-V lab environment and then add SCVMM to it, as this material is too complex to actually master without much practice and experimentation. You should know that Hyper-V requires that you have a server with one or more 64 bit processors with both hardware virtualization and DEP support (be careful here, since not all 64 bit chips support hardware virtualization) and at least 8 gb of RAM to perform adequately, which is a bit more than many people have in their home lab. This is money well spent however, as all of the Microsoft server products going forward seem to require 64 bit processor support. The book is of moderate length (at least as 'geek' books go these days), and is highly readable. It even covers new features that came out with Windows Server 2008 R2, which means that it will be up-to-date for quite some time. It covers the theory, architecture and 'click, click, finish' material you need learn to use these products successfully in the real world. I found the case study style exercises in each chapter to be of particular merit. My hat is off to the author team for writing yet another wonderful book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great value -- Hyper-V, VMM, and R2 coverage, July 17, 2009

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This review is from: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-652): Configuring Windows Server® Virtualization (Paperback)

Just wanted to let readers know this Training Kit covers not only the 70-652 exam on Windows Server Virtualization (including practice tests), but also includes prep material for exam 70-403 on System Center Virtual Machine Manager, plus Hyper-V R2 content. Nelson and Danielle did an amazing job in making this book an exceptionally good value!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but Practice Test on CD clumps two tests into one, March 3, 2011

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Joel A. Chambers - See all my reviews

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This review is from: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-652): Configuring Windows Server® Virtualization (Paperback)

I found the book a bit long winded. As another reviewer noted, it sometimes overkills a subject from all angles. This in itself is not a bad thing for a reference. However, for use on a training kit for preparation to take a Microsoft Exam, not exactly what I was looking for.

The biggest disappointment for me was that it does not differentiate the Practice Exam off the CD between the two different exams it covers. Although it does attempt to provide an outline at the beginning of the book saying what areas are good for each exam. I don't plan to take the 70-403 exam. However, I might consider it seeing as I had to absorb all the knowledge instead of just that of 70-652 for that Practice Exam to even be worth the CD it was burned on.

How much more effort could it have been to separate the two exams into another "Cusom Mode" option on the Practice Test CD? Perhaps it is only questions based on just 70-652 exam as it describes it on the CD. Although I sincerely doubt that based on the 199 available question it polls 45 default questions from each time.