MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-297): Designing a Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure (Training Kit) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Walter Glenn, Michael T. Simpson
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Pages: 700
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 1.5
MPN: 0-7356-1970-0
ISBN: 0735619700
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.4476
UPC: 790145197009
EAN: 9780735619708
ASIN: 0735619700
Publication Date: December 24, 2003
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MCSE SPTK EXAM 70-297 DESIGN WIN SVR 2003 AD/NI
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Passed exam with 910 January 9, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book was not extremely useful for this exam, basically its just a recap of the materials learnt in all other exams. The book did however provide a great refresh of this information and the practice questions on the simulator included prepare you for the exam well.
Good summary but missing specific details September 23, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Overall this book was a great review and summary of some of the information covered on the 70-297 vendor exam. However, it was missing some specific details about material that was covered on the vendor exam. The case studies did a great job of preparing you for the type of format you will see on the exam but the content was not nearly as in-depth or challenging as on the vendor exam. IF you are looking for the quintessential book to prepare for the vendor exam, this is not it. However, as a review of major concepts it is right on.
 Not the right information for the exam. February 23, 2005
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
This MS Press book does a poor job in preparing the reader for exam 70-297. Not to say it doesn't include useful information, but it doesn't focus on the same information the exam appears to consider useful. For example, I'd estimate the real exam has 20% of its questions directly related to domain upgrade/migration procedures. This book's material on the same: 2 pages.
I do appreciate other MS Press books. ISBN 0735618992 (Exchange 2003, 70-284), and ISBN 0735615772 (AD for 2003 Technical Reference) are both great. By the way, I used the latter to fill in for some of the shortcomings of this book.
 Good place to start your study for the 70-297 July 19, 2004
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Overall this book is a good place to start your 70-297 study. When I study for exams I us a combination of book study and practice tests such as the readiness review CD included with this title. My personal favorite testing software for Microsoft exams is the SelfTest Software products (who also writes the offical Microsoft testing materials). Based on my current experience with the 70-297 Selftest program, most of the question reference are based on the Windows Server Deployment Reource Kit - a hefty collection of books that go indepth on all the various aspects of deploying windows. Bottom line is that you might want to cut out the middle man (ie. the MS 70-297 training kit) and invest in the Windows Server Deployment Reource Kit instead. The worst part about the kit is that the Readiness review test is flawed when it comes to taking a test in the Certification mode - this mode is supposed to simulate a real test environment, however the 30 minute time limit to answer 90 questions is extremely unrealistic. That works out to 3 questions/min in a scenario based test environment. Last time I checked the real tests were aloted 2 hours for the test.
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