Product Description

Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit features official exam prep andpractice for the skills measured by Exam 70-620.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39547 in Books
• Brand: Microsoft
• Published on: 2007-05-09
• Platform: No Operating System
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 11.02 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 848 pages

About the Author
Ian McLean, MCITP, MCDBA, MCT, has 40 years of experience in industry and
education. He' has authored 18 books, plus many technical articles and
papers. He currently runs his own consulting company. Orin Thomas, MCSE,
CCNA, CCDA, and Linux+ certified, is an author and systems administrator.
He is the a coauthor of several Ttraining Kkkits for Microsoft Press and a
contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine.

Customer Reviews

It helped me pass 70-620, nuff said!
I have read a lot of study guides over the years and despite the size of this book it was amazingly easy to read and digest.

The content weas laid out logically and flowed with ease.

I know a lot of people are upset that there is not evaluation included but if you work in IT you should be able to lay your hands on a copy. Also I strongly recommend actually using Vista before taking the 70-620!

Excellent Comprehensive Resource

The book, all 800+ pages of it, is written with the objective of getting you through the 70-620 exam, and should therefore not be confused with the Vista Resource Kit.
Whilst covering virtually the same material, this is not a reference book. It does however have very good labs and recommended best practises that will be useful long after the exam cramming begins to fade.

Whilst many taking this exam will have done the Windows XP equivalent, Vista is a huge step forward from Windows XP and there is a lot of new good content to be taken in.
Vista is really all about security, and in setting out the exam Configuring Windows Vista Client takes you through the whole desktop security model from browser security zones to locking down your wireless connections. Microsoft has now put security in by design, and it permeates throughout Vista, and the exam, as a result.
If you are an IT professional with an interest in security the chapter on locking down Internet Explorer and Windows Defender is worth the price of the book alone.
The advanced security firewall features, with the ability to configure in and outbound rules are well explained, and the reader is taken through a series of scenarios and best practises. For many in the desktop environment workspace this may be the first time they have configured a firewall, and this area is well explained for the novice.

This is obviously a book to take you through the 70-620 desktop exam: Using Vista clients in Active Directory Environments is covered in the 70-622 and -70-623 exams, and hence left out here.

Great for the Vista 70-620 exam,
The book covers enough detail for this exam (its main purpose). I found the book concise and to the point. I was able to pass using this as my main study tool. If you have passed the 70-270 exam you find this easy reading, as this exam is closer to the MCDST 70-271. i.e.

+ no requiremnts for automated installs
+ AD or group policy etc

Basically it is an easy read if your familiar with the previous XP exams.