MCTS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Complete Study Guide (Exams 70-640, 70-642 and 70-643)

erpadmin

Guys,

Just wanted to let you know that Sybex has 70-640, 70-642 and 70-643 prep material in one guide and RELEVANT to R2. It is coming out in Hard Cover soon but it is available NOW as a Kindle book! I downloaded the book in my Kindle, and the guide seems straightforward.

http://www.amazon.com/MCTS-Windows-Server-Complete-ebook/dp/B004UIBZPW/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1302705727&sr=8-1


As soon as I'm done with Javascript studies, I'm jumping on this like a mad man. With and without Text To Speech to boot (I gotta get a MCTS in something now...)


jmasterj206 deserves credit for finding out about the new Sybex R2 guides. I just wanted to let folks know, it is available now in Kindle format. (Unlike the previous guides....go Sybex!!)

ConradJ

404?

http://www.amazon.com/MCTS-Windows-Server-Complete-70-640/dp/0470948469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302705727&sr=8-1

erpadmin

ConradJ wrote: »

404?

Amazon.com: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Complete Study Guide (Exams 70-640, 70-642 and 70-643) (9780470948460): William Panek: Books

The link works fine when I click on it. I made that post at home and I'm at work now.

Assuming there is some issue, when you go to Amazon.com, just search via the "ASIN" [Amazon Standard Identification Number] which is B004UIBZPW

Hope that helps.

ConradJ

Works now! How strange. Oh well, I found it anyway. Thanks for the link, looks like a good read.

earweed

Wish it had come out a month ago

veritas_libertas

About time considering the fact that the 2008R2 path is suppose to expire in 2013

erpadmin

veritas_libertas wrote: »

About time considering the fact that the 2008R2 path is suppose to expire in 2013

All that means is that W2K8 environments will still be around until 2015/2016. For the longest time, we still have W2K servers in production. (Not the PeopleSoft stuff...that's on W2K3...lmao.) I still support SQL Server 2000 in production...lol.

My whole PeopleSoft upgrade environment is on 2008 R2 now. (We'll be going live with it in June). Between that, my development environment, plus the minilab I got at home, I'm pretty much straight for the NDM emphasis. The only thing I needed was R2 materials...and I didn't want to hunt down pieces of R2 stuff from such-and-such book, or that-and-this TechNet article. I much rather have a book that touches what I need then supplement that with the Interwebs/videos/other books/TechNet articles. I didn't want to do that type of studying backwards, and that's partly why I went on with other WGU courses in the meantime.

Plus, I still have a MS-exam phobia...it won't go away until I sit for any MS exam and pass it. I envision that I will get into a rhythm that I can then use to take the exams I really want to do (DBA 2008 ).

erpadmin

earweed wrote: »

Wish it had come out a month ago

Perseverance.....you had that instead. Not many folks can do what you did to become an EA...you will always have that going for you.

Claymoore

erpadmin wrote: »

. It is coming out in Hard Cover soon but it is available NOW as a Kindle book! I downloaded the book in my Kindle, and the guide seems straightforward.

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jmasterj206 deserves credit for finding out about the new Sybex R2 guides. I just wanted to let folks know, it is available now in Kindle format. (Unlike the previous guides....go Sybex!!)

Glad to see Sybex is finally embracing ebooks. I stopped looking at their material because it didn't come with a digital copy or wasn't available as an ebook. I'm packing up my tech library to prepare for a move and I don't think I want another 1,000 page hardback server book - ever.

veritas_libertas

Claymoore wrote: »

Glad to see Sybex is finally embracing ebooks. I stopped looking at their material because it didn't come with a digital copy or wasn't available as an ebook. I'm packing up my tech library to prepare for a move and I don't think I want another 1,000 page hardback server book - ever.

Every book I have bought from Sybex in the last two years has come with a PDF version.

MentholMoose

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Every book I have bought from Sybex in the last two years has come with a PDF version.

Yeah, most of the ones I have owned included PDFs as well. I've had good luck with Sybex books (used them for every exam in MCITP: SA and EA), and I prefer to study from PDF, so they are usually my first choice.