Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-652and 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 answersincluding 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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 I passed both tests using this book |
| Review Date: November 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: John Day, Phoenix, Arizona |
| 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. |
Great value -- Hyper-V, VMM, and R2 coverage
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| Review Date: July 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Microsoft Press Editor, Seattle, WA USA |
| 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! |
A Really Really Good Book
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| Review Date: March 29, 2010 |
| Reviewer: R. bell, Culver City, CA |
This was by far one of the funnest exam preparation books I have ever read. I used it for the 70-652 cert along with the Hyper-V Insiders Guide and passed. The book is concise, (fun) and for the first time that I can recall actually prepared me for the test. The kit calls for 2 x64 computers w/4GB of RAM but I was able to use one with 8GB and an Intel Duo Core 3.00GHZ without a problem. For the most part... What I liked the most about this particular book is that each chapter built upon the previous chapter - yes you can say that that's standard with 90+% tech to learn books, but this one does it better IMO. Not only does it prep (you) for the test but I was able to put most of what I learned to use in my job. I will be using this book to further prep for the 70-403 exam - which means I will go over a few of the scenarios again and again... Had an instructor (CCNA) who used to say; "time versus material equals knowledge." At the time I thought he was being smug (and he very well may have been!)however he was right... Here's a gee whiz link for 70-403-->[...]
As much as I hate to say this (type), this has become my newest bathroom book!!! Many thanks to the authors!!!!!
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Information you need to pass both tests
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| Review Date: June 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: David, LADERA RANCH, US, Canada |
| I'm usually skeptical of Microsoft Press training kits because of past experiences, it is rare to find a training kit that covers each exam objective as well as this book does. I purchased this book to help me pass both 70-652 and 70-403 Microsoft exams which scores well over the passing score of 700! I have about 6 months of Hyper-V experience and wanted a book that would cover more of what was on the exams and help me fill in the gaps. The lessons and information in the book was right on, the book covers each objective for the test and it was the only resource I used for study for the 70-652 exam. I found that I needed more information on System Center Virtualization Manager so I purchased the Sybex book Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 for additional reference material. The exam tips that are sprinkled throughout the book are excellent and helped focus my study efforts. I used the electronic book on the CD primarily as a search tool and it is nice to have since I like to travel light. The CD also contains a sample test with about 180 questions which helped me get in the right frame of mind for the real test. |
BUY THIS BOOK TO LEARN AND PASS EXAMS
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| Review Date: June 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: michaeld, |
| Hi I have got this book and have been reading it for two months now and have also setup a hyper-v and vmm test lab. This book ultimately lives or dies based on how relevant it is to the exam. Well I took both exams today and passed them both. I must say that this book is exceptional, it covers a lot of material and it includes an exam discount voucher as well as testing software. This type of software normally costs anywhere from $50 to $125. So you are getting an amazing deal here. I have used other MS Press self paced books in the past for MS exams and have found them to be great for learning and passing the exams. This has been a great experience as I really knew nothing about this topic, unlike some of the others where you have a lot of knowledge coming into the subject. If you don't want to do an exam, I would still recommend it, because it shows you step by step how to setup your lab and what things to practice so you can learn the product. I don't think any other book out there is as focused on that . Also if I did not say so, this covers two exams and again is even a better deal when you see how much you get for very little cost. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. |
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