MCSE Windows XP Professional Exam Cram 2: Exam 70-270 (Exam Cram 2)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Derek Melber, Dan Balter Our price £14.99 (£24.99) New from £14.24 Used from £11.99 Pages: 504 (Paperback) ISBN: 0789733609 Pub: QUE Pub date: 2005-08-04 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 161836

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Avoid this book at all costs (0/0 people found this helpful)

Too many poor points to write them all here are the glaring ones;

Incomplete or wrong explanations.
No Internet Explorer chapter which is truly shocking.
50 Measureup questions that you get are too old to be of any value.
Two practive exams at the end of the book are exactly the same after question 32 onwards.

The worst of crime of all for me is this book messed up all the studying I have done beforehand. I read the Microsoft`s Self Paced training kit before this piece of junk and this book did nothing but confuse now I am having to reread the Microsoft Self paced book and refamiliarise myself with the proper stuff not the junk you get with this book.

You will find there is other 70-270 material on the web that is freeware and much better put together.

Buy this book for your exam preparations (1/1 people found this helpful)

I am really glad I bought this book for XP. I sat the exam and passed first time, maybe I was lucky but I found so much useful info inside, its worth much more money.

In the beginning, I saw several topics which I thought were unnecessary to read but presto! when I came across those same questions in the practice tests, I just had to go back to the book again and again and read them! Which made me appreciate the book even more. Its amazing how much info is packed into 400+ pages.

Everything is to-the-point, no messing around and beating round the bush. The way XP is described here, few books can match, IMO. It was obvious to me the authors have made a lot of effort to describe things as they have tips, alerts, easy explanations of many difficult concepts AND you get a mock exam CD!

Or maybe Im just carried away cos I passed?

However I must admit to also using another textbook (Sybex) which was slightly easier to read, but not in such great detail as this one.

So, I would certainly recommend it to any student of XP, but NOT AS A SOLE AID. Buy it and also use other recommended books and tests.

Not suitable for this exam on its own (0/0 people found this helpful)

I sat the 70-270 exam recently and passed but not with this book alone, it is only good to go over some of the facts it lacks all the facts needed to pass the exam, use in conjunction with video study aids such as nuggets or testout.

Decent study guide (1/1 people found this helpful)

I used this book to pass my exam, which i did comfortably. It has basically all you need to know, in regards to the exam, but abit of additional reading wouldn't go a miss. Pretty decent book and the author has structured the information in a digestible format. well worth the purchase, but you must put extra work\effort in yourself to pass. The other alternative is cheat by cramming your head with braindumps and passing the exam!! Depending on how serious your the choice is yours :=()'

A concise and lucid summary of most exam topics (2/2 people found this helpful)

This book should ideally be read after reading cover-to-cover a Microsoft Official Curriculum, Microsoft Press or Que/Sybex Study Guide. The clue is in the title - it is for cramming in everything you have previously learnt for this exam.

I made notes whilst reading through the book, which I recommend doing after first reading it cover-to-cover without making notes. It's worth cross-referencing with a study guide, the Microsoft Exam Preparation Guide and google searches as you go.

I found it covered some areas not in the MOC and vice-versa. The tear-out cram sheet for the exam hall is excellent.

Experience with XP and other MS products will help you make the most of the book, as well as practicing what is in the book.

I managed to score 921 on the exam doing all of the above. I am certain that I'd have done significantly worse without this book.

Good luck!

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