Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680) Configuring Windows 7 (McTs) [With DVD ROM]

by Ian L. McLean and Orin Thomas

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-680--and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735627088
• ISBN13: 9780735627086
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 872 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Passed Exam First Try

This book was really good... It covered everything that was on the exam... It is very detailed and easy to read and easy to follow the material... I would definetly recommend this book to anyone preparing for this exam....

Good to know kind of reading.

Starting with this edition is always a good way to learn more about the internal workings of Windows. Its also very interactive with its tutorials which helps get that hands on when you need it. So far very interesting and the best part about it is, when your done reading and have completed the exam finding a job goes up by about 80% plus your knowledge of windows is far broader then you would of throught making windows a sinch to configure without having to use google as your knowledge base so much! 2 Thumbs up +)

Excellent book..I passed 70-680 after reading it first try

This is an excellent study guide for the 70-680 exam. I spent about 2 weeks reading the book cover to cover and I was able to pass the exam on my first try with a score of 805. I have only been using Windows 7 Enterprise for about a month, so this book really helped me out. FYI the exam has NO SIMULATIONS at this time. I would most certainly purchase another book by Orin Thomas!

This book helped me pass the Windows 7 exam

I got this book to help me pass the Windows 7 exam. After reading the book and doing all the exercises and practice test questions I got above 900 when I took the test. This is the first time I have taken a Microsoft exam since Windows XP so I am pretty happy with the result. The practice tests are similar enough to the exam that they helped me pass. The only thing I didn't like about this book was that some of the exercises take a while and you really need a computer with 4 GB of RAM if you are going to do them using VMWARE. This was okay for me, but might not be good for others. I was able to do all the practices using the RC version of Windows 7 even though they are designed for the real version of Windows 7. I do not know what book the other reviews are talking about as the text seemed to be clear and I noticed few mistakes. If you want to pass the exam this book will help you do that. If you want to have a book as a Windows 7 reference you should get the resource kit book.

Excellent

After working through the first five chapters I think I can safely say that this book is excellently written and easy to understand. I have read a few MS press books previously that sometimes got me annoyed as the authors seemed to go off with some long winded guff that was neither relevant or necessary, but five chapters in and this book has yet to do that. I have managed to answer all practice questions correctly at the end of each lesson and chapter after reading each chapter only once (a first for me!) so they must be doing something right!! Of course the proof will be when I take the MS exam but signs are looking good if the practice questions are anything to go by. Highly recommended if you're thinking about taking the 70-680 exam.