Question about studying for the MCSA Certification

goldenlight

What are the best books to used for studying for this certification. When I studied for my cisco certs I used the cisopress and they were dead on.

Can I assume the same for Microsoft Press.





i noticed Windows Server 2012 preview is available for free download. Will this suffice for practice software?

alan2308

Interested to hear replies on this one myself, I'm going to do the upgrade to MCSA 2012 in the near future. But if the 2012 books are anything like the 2008 books, then no. I bought the MS Press books and was severely disappointed. I bought the Pearson book for the 640 and liked it a lot better, for the other 2 tests I just went with the MS Press books that I had already bought and spent a lot of time on Technet supplementing the books. I liked the Step-by-Step guides on Technet as a great place to start for labbing up just about any topic.

You can get an evaluation copy of Server 2012 here. I'd stay away from preview editions.
Download Windows Server 2012

Edit: I guess if we're already talking 2012R2 updates on the exam, you might as well grab a copy of the r2 preview.