MCSE: Windows XP Professional Study Guide Exam 70-270 [With CDROM]

I just got this book. Looks like it's the second edition as some of these errors pointed out have been fixed. A very indepth, comprehensive, easily to follow study guide. I would highly recommend this book to anybody.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how certain publisher are constantly producing high quality IT Certification study material on a consistent basis. Sybex is one of the publisher I used to obtain my CCNA and CCDA certification and now that I am pursuing my MCSA I have once again look to Sybex for help. Windows XP Professional, Microsoft's newest Operating System, is certainly a new challenge and the 70-270 exam is certainly challenging as well. In this 780 page book I found over 90 exercises to help me make the XP exam easier to prepare for. The authors have also included exam notes and warnings to give me the best shot of passing the exam first time around. As with most XP books this manual starts you off with the install, configuration and upgrading to XP Professional. You then move to desktop configuration and management with setting up user groups, accounts, policies and security. Disk management does coverage conversions to other disk formats including EFS, compression and NTFS with permissions and rights. The author spend several chapters having you work with networking concepts, protocols, remote access, VPN technologies and unlike some other books there is also troubleshooting of networks as well as printer and printing. Finally disaster and system recovery techniques are included, making this about as complete a book as I have seen so far. The cd included has the e-book for both the pc and for the palm. It also comes with tests that are customizable and once again Sybex goes the extra mile and gives you 2 bonus exams I am impressed with everything included and the fact that they also included WinSim and XP simulation software. About the only thing that isn't included is the answers to the actual test, but if you spend the right amount of time that should no problem.