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Announcing an all-new SELF-PACED TRAINING KIT designed to help maximize your performance on 70-680, the required exam for the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows 7, Configuration certification.This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs to give you the skills and expertise you can use on the job.Work at your own pace through the lessons and lab exercises. This official study guide covers installing, upgrading, and migrating to Windows 7; configuring network connectivity, applications, and devices; implementing backup and recovery; configuring User Account Control (UAC), mobility options, and new features such as DirectAccess and BranchCache; and managing system updates.Then assess yourself using the 200 practice questions on CD, featuring multiple customizable testing options to meet your specific needs. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an exam discount voucher—making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.
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This 2-in-1 training kit delivers in-depth preparation plus practice for 70-680, the exam for the new MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration certification. Ace your exam prep—and build real-world job skills—with lessons, labs, and practice tests.
Test How Much You Know with Sample Case Scenarios from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680)
Case Scenario 1: Installing Windows 7 at Contoso
You work for Contoso, Ltd. The company has a head office and two branch office locations. The company has just purchased 50 small form factor laptops on which you want to deploy Windows 7. A total of 40 of these computers will be deployed at the head office site, with 5 deployed to each of the branch office sites. The small computers do not include DVD-ROM drives, but they do have PXE-compliant network adapters and USB ports. You have tested the default version of Windows PE available with the WAIK and found that it is not compatible with the network adapters on these computers. Contoso, Ltd has a volume license agreement with Microsoft. All servers at Contoso, Ltd have the Windows Server 2008 operating system installed. You would like to ensure that the computers’ hard disks are protected with encryption so that data is protected in case they are lost. Considering these facts, answer the following questions:
1. Which installation media or source could you use to deploy Windows 7 in the head office?
2. Which installation media or source could you use to deploy Windows 7 in the branch offices?
3. Which edition of Windows 7 should you deploy to the computers?
Answers
1. You could use WDS or a USB storage device as an installation source for deploying Windows 7. Because you do not have access to Windows PE, you cannot use a network share.
2. You could use a USB storage device as an installation source for deploying Windows 7. Because you do not have access to Windows PE, you cannot use a network share. You would not use WDS when you need to deploy operating systems to only five computers at each location.
3. Windows 7 Enterprise supports BitLocker hard disk drive encryption and is available to volume license customers. Although Windows 7 Ultimate also supports BitLocker hard disk drive encryption, it uses a retail license rather than a volume one.
Case Scenario 2: Migrating User Data at Fabrikam
You are in charge of supporting client operating systems at Fabrikam. In the head office, you have 20 users that have computers running Windows 7 Enterprise (x86). You will be increasing the amount of RAM in these computers from 4 GB to 16 GB and need to upgrade the operating system to Windows 7 Enterprise (x64). After the upgrade is complete, users should not be able to boot into the x86 version of Windows 7. You have 10 users at a branch office who currently have computers running Windows XP Professional that are more than 5 years old. These computers each have only 256 MB of RAM. You do not have any Windows Easy Transfer cables and do not want to store branch office user profile data on network drives or on USB storage devices. You will replace these computers with 10 new computers running Windows 7 Professional. Considering these facts, answer the following questions:
1. What sort of migration should you perform at the branch office, side-by-side or wipe-and-load?
2. What sort of migration should you perform at the head office, side-by-side or wipe-and-load?
3. Which technology and method would you use to perform the migrations in the branch office?
Answers
1. Side-by-side migrations are appropriate because you are moving users in the branch offices from old computers to new computers. Wipe-and-load migrations are appropriate only when the same computer hardware is being used.
2. You should perform a wipe-and-load because the users in the head office will be using the same hardware and should not be able to boot into the x86 version of Windows 7 Enterprise after the upgrade is complete.
3. Use Windows Easy Transfer with the network method.
Both the authors and editors of this book need to be introduced to the grammar checker tool that has been available in MS Word for a very long time now. The editors would have caught many of the errors if they just simply read the book. I am only a third of the way through the book, but have run into so many incorrect words, that I am wishing that I had purchased a different book. Being a technical book, it is difficult enough to read without falling asleep, given the number of errors it must have been difficult to write without falling asleep as well….. Having read dozens of Microsoft Press books, I am really disappointed in the quality of this one. If you want to learn about configuring Windows 7, buy another book. If you want to appreciate what you learned in your high school English classes, read this one and count the number of errors you find (you will probably average more than one per page).
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
Like the other review, I barely cracked this book open and found more grammar and spelling errors than I could have imagined. Sure, there are going to be a few in any book. But I’m just now into chapter 2, only 68 pgs in, and I’ve found letters missing on words, words being entirely wrong for the sentence, half of a sentence repeated, and now a command they tell you to run is incorrect. This makes the authors and whoever the editor is look like they need to go back to school to learn how to proofread – even techies like us know you can’t completely rely on the computer’s spell check. It’s obvious they didn’t pay much attention to the spell checker though, because there have been plenty of errors it would have caught. This is absolutely ridiculous. You could probably find at least 1 error every 2 pages. Hopefully this helps me enough to pick up any details about Windows 7 that I’m not already familiar with. The lesson quizzes and practice tests have been helpful so far, so it wasn’t a total waste of money.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
Use this book in the real world at your peril. Disregarding the aforementioned editorial mistakes, this book will help you adequately prepare for the certification – but sell the book when you’ve finished. You’ll find more up to date information online. For example, in the chapter on Networking the authors tell us that the typical SOHO network setup uses ICS. NO ONE uses ICS any longer. Also, and this was one of my favorites, here’s a quote from the Wireless Networking portion: “Most modern WAPs available from computer equipment retailers now are 802.11g” Have these guys visited a computer retailer within that past 2 years? Overall, I’m quite disappointed in the quality of information this book offers.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
Do not rely upon this as your sole point of reference for the 70-680 exam, especially if this is your first Microsoft exam experience. Not only were at least one third of my exam questions not covered in this book but the reference material was full of inaccuracies, incorrect command-line parameters, and practice sections that completely omitted necessary steps to complete the exercises. I will never purchase another guide by these authors.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
First of all there are too many errors in this book to list. I added almost two pages to the official list, making the total number of pages 8. This is quite frustrating due to the time that I took with each error to research the information in order to understand. Considering I was using this text to prepare for the certification test, that was unacceptable. I ended up buying other books to use in addition to this one to prepare for the test.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5