70-680 MS Press Book

NOLAJ

I understand there are a lot of errors in this book. Does/Has Microsoft made any corrections to the book and re-released it?

ehnde

The self-paced training kit book? MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows® 7 comments and corrections

Psoasman

There is a rather large errata thread on Amazon for this book.

Tenor

So which is the best book to get for the 780-680 exam?

apena7

Tenor wrote: »

So which is the best book to get for the 780-680 exam?

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7 is actually the best of the exam study guides, but that isn't saying much. If the chapters on deployment are confusing, check out Windows 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-685 and 70-686) written by Darril Gibson. Also, be sure to get a copy of the Windows 7 Resource Kit to fill in the gaps.

Tenor

apena7 wrote: »

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7 is actually the best of the exam study guides, but that isn't saying much. If the chapters on deployment are confusing, check out Windows 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-685 and 70-686) written by Darril Gibson. Also, be sure to get a copy of the Windows 7 Resource Kit to fill in the gaps.

Thanks for the advice.

SilverGenius

apena7 wrote: »

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7 is actually the best of the exam study guides, but that isn't saying much. If the chapters on deployment are confusing, check out Windows 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-685 and 70-686) written by Darril Gibson. Also, be sure to get a copy of the Windows 7 Resource Kit to fill in the gaps.

Is the book by Darril Gibson the same quality as his Security+ book?

NOLAJ

OK

I received the MS Press Book in the mail last week and finished it this morning. Soooo many things make so much more sense now. Will swear by Press Books for now on!!

Question: How similar are the questions from the Press Book CD Practice tests to the actual exam? Just curious.

Cookie0879

There are 3 places where errors+corrections can be found (that I know of):

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows® 7 comments and corrections Microsoft KB article

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows® 7 Confirmed Errata | O'Reilly Media Confirmed Errata
MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows® 7 Unconfirmed Errata | O'Reilly Media Unconfirmed Errata

Amazon.co.uk: Customer Discussions: 70-680 Errata Thread

daver1015

I was wondering if anybody knows anything about this book. Wiley::70-680: Windows 7 Configuration

Any input would be great.

Thanks

za3bour

NOLAJ wrote: »

OK

I received the MS Press Book in the mail last week and finished it this morning. Soooo many things make so much more sense now. Will swear by Press Books for now on!!

Question: How similar are the questions from the Press Book CD Practice tests to the actual exam? Just curious.

Not that similar and this is the rule for MS, expect to get some questions that are not mentioned at all in the book that's normal too.

The book is good, I read it it's not the best book MS wrote just make sure to look for the mistakes since there are a lot of them in the syntax/commands.

Claymoore

MS Press is updating the training kit with all the corrections from the errata pages. You can download the update, but I can't tell if the updates will be included in future published editions

Book update/Page corrections: ?MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7? - Microsoft Press - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

earweed

Claymoore wrote: »

MS Press is updating the training kit with all the corrections from the errata pages. You can download the update, but I can't tell if the updates will be included in future published editions

Book update/Page corrections: ?MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7? - Microsoft Press - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

+1 for the new MS supplied corrections. That is, however, one huge document.

veritas_libertas

The 680 book was terrible, and that is the only way to put it. I would use the following books:

• The MS Press 680 book
• The MS Press 685 book
• and of course Darril's book

I also used all the resources that Claymoore put together for the Win7, Configuring exam.

ampersand

According to the O'Reilly errata website, Microsoft corrected most or all of the errata in a February 2011 reprint. But I purchased my copy two weeks ago, and it has all of the original errors.

mattlee09

ampersand wrote: »

According to the O'Reilly errata website, Microsoft corrected most or all of the errata in a February 2011 reprint. But I purchased my copy two weeks ago, and it has all of the original errors.

+1, same thing here. Purchased my book Feb 23 from Amazon.

Meh.

ampersand

mattlee09 wrote: »

+1, same thing here. Purchased my book Feb 23 from Amazon.

I exchanged my Microsoft Press 70-680 book for Darril Gibson's Windows 7 Desktop Support and Administration book from Sybex, and I'm much happier now. The latter is highly recommended.

mattlee09

ampersand wrote: »

I exchanged my Microsoft Press 70-680 book for Darril Gibson's Windows 7 Desktop Support and Administration book from Sybex, and I'm much happier now. The latter is highly recommended.

Nice. I doubt I'll be able to order and go through it before my Apr 19 attempt, and hopefully I won't need it after that...

But DG definitely holds a ton of weight with me, I (along with many others) owe our Sec+ to him. I'll end up getting it to read through later this summer as a refresher if I get to roll out 7 in my environment as planned.

altjx

SilverGenius wrote: »

Is the book by Darril Gibson the same quality as his Security+ book?

Agreed. That Security+ book kept my interest from the time I opened it first, to the time I closed it for good. Helped well on the exam too. Think I'll buy more books from him when studying for upcoming exams.