Which Books/Study materials??

Hey guys, im fresh from the XP forum and am cracking on with 70-290 now, just want some advice on whats the best books to get for this exam? I want one that will explain OU`s, containers, GP abit better as im still having a few probs getting my head round em! hence only scrapping by with 700 on 70-270

so far i have MS press book/sybex and learnkey, should this be enought to pass? as what i did with the last exam i got way too many study aids and didnt managed to take all of them in

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RobsonGTO wrote:

so far i have MS press book/sybex and learnkey, should this be enought to pass?

Together with a small home lab with 2 or more Windows 2003 servers that should be enough study material.

3000GT

I have virtual PC, will that surfice? just i live in the small flat and dont have any room for more PC`s

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RobsonGTO wrote:

I have virtual PC, will that surfice?

Yeah, that'll do just fine. Just make sure you got plenty of ram.

3000GT

ive got about 768MB, should be ok? or more?

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I have a 'lab' PC with 768MB running Windows XP as the host OS with 2 virtual Windows 2003 servers (1 DC, one Terminal/IIS server.). That allowed me to use the Windows XP host PC itself and my Windows XP laptop as clients. In short, yes 768MB will do. Things may be a bit slow from time to time (a lot of swapping) but for practice it will do. Another option to speed it up a bit is to use a separate harddisk for the virtual PCs.

3000GT

Yeah i was thinking about that, thanks

woodworm

I was installing VMWare on my PC this weekend actually so I could set up a lab like you are - but it won't let you install it on a Domain Controller (I had already dual-booted my PC and installed Server2003 on it!).

If you do the same setup then you need to install VM Ware before running dcpromo (seems to be working fine once i had done it that way?)

sbabs

If you are wanting to get ready and not waste a lot of time, belly up for the transcenders. I go for the barebones practice tests, but they are simply the best IMO.

Good luck.