It goes in better depth with hands on labs to work with while you learn or fine tune for the test.

This book is a little strange organized(chapters order) and some exercises cannot be completed due to additional configration steps needed that were supposed to be done in prior exercises, but they were omitted. Not to mention there is no chapter for GPOs.

Great written book, easy to understand and if you are new into windows 2003, then this book will be a good way to begin with. Then, if you want to pass the 70-290 exam in your first try please do practice,practice while reading it.

This product is far superior to the proscribed Microsoft course books that you will get in a classroom setting. I basicly tossed them aside and concentrated on using this before I took my exam. Guess what, I passed with flying colors! Take this book and run, It's the best source out there.

This is an excellent book that will prepare you for the exam. I used it as my only source and passed the test on the first try. The 70-290 is a very easy exam but regardless of that the book prepares you very well.

Waste of money if sole intention is for taking the 70-290. You're better off with the Admin companion or inside out 2003 book. Sections on Groups is horrendous. The worst part is how 30% of the practice material is not even covered in the book! Funny how all the practice questions themselves reference the admin companion/technet and not the book. Again, don't waste your money on this "training kit"

But don't limit yourself to one book. I've been in the field for some years now and working with Server 2003/AD for about 2 yrs now. MS does an excellent job of prepping you for the test, but to me and my peers here it's a bit "too technical". Thus I combined my studies with the Sybex book and ExamCram series, all available at excellent prices here on Amazon (I usually get all my new tech books here because of lower costs). I'd highly recommend anyone wanting to pursue this MCSA certification to use all 3 books, it all balances out in the end and you get different perspectives on the same subject matter, some explained in a more layman way than technical.

I truly found this book to be just average; a good resource of knowledge on the product but not a good resource for learning the product nor preparing for the cert exam. I will definately keep the copy that I have for future reference, however I will not be purchasing more MS Press Material for the purpose of passing MS cert exams. It will only be for my own personal knowledge base.

Great hands on tutorial. The book is so big though that you either have great memory, or study on a consistent basis so you'll remember all you has read by the time you get to the end. I got this book for hands on experience, and got the Exam Cram version as a refresher before the test.

I was very impressed with this training manual for the Microsoft 70-290 exams. Features prac & theory but best of all it includes an evaluation version of Server 2003 which is a must for the practical exercises. Overall extremely happy with this purchase.

First of all I am not highly technical. I am a CRM Project Manager and I wanted to take and pass this exam to become and MCP and a MCBSM Profession for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. I do not do any of the outlined Windows Server tasks on a regular basis and had very little knowledge of them before I read this book.

I also found the certification exam to be very challenging and confusing at times; even more than some of the other Microsoft Certifications Exams the I have taken. That being said I believe this book did a very good job preparing me for the exam.

I found it to be bearable, which is actually pretty good considering my interest in the topics was limited. I spend roughly 30 hours reading the text and doing the examples from the book and another 15 hours taking the practice tests. In my opinion each of these three components are equally important.

Overall I don't think I retained much of the content and I would not recommend reading this book if you don't plan to taking the certification exam or using the content on a daily basis. However, if you are planning on taking the exam this probably the best resource because of the content, examples, and practice test cd.

I'm very dissappointed as I didn't get a serial key with my book to install the training edition of Enterprise Server 2003. This has caused me to have to find someone with a valid copy of Enterprise and it hasn't been easy.

Is very good book is you planning taking this exam and very helpfully i recomended it

I purchased this book for study purposes after taking a class that was supposed to completely prepare you to pass the 70-290 exam. Thinking that this would be mostly review, I tore into the material last week when I got it and found that it is way more in depth than my class was. Excellent depth and the writing style is easy to follow.

I recommend this highly to anyone wishing to prepare to pass the test.

great certification tool!!!
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