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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows Vista / 2000 / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- In-depth Official Microsoft training
- Interactive, modular courses allow you to work at your own pace
- Exercises, tests, games and animations make learning interesting
- Extensive, scenario-driven technical labs allow you to practise remotely on a real system
- Written by Microsoft product experts
- Full assessments and completion tracking so that you will always know how you are progressing
- Follows the Official Microsoft curriculum
- Recommended training for MCTS exam 70-649
- 60 hours of online learning
- 12 months subscription
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Synopsis
Developed by Microsoft, this interactive course will help you to upgrade your Windows Server 2003 MCSE skills to Windows Server 2008. It is recommended training towards the MCTS 70-649 Windows Server 2008 exam, and is also ideal for IT professionals who need to implement Windows Server 2008 and already have experience of Windows Server 2003. It covers Microsoft course numbers 6417, 6517 and 6528. The sixty-hour course is split into thirty two-hour lessons covering various aspects of Windows Server 2008."Official Microsoft Online Learning" is ideal for the individual looking to improve their Microsoft skills. Written by Microsoft product experts, these interactive, modular courses allow you to work at your own pace and to practise using extensive scenario-driven technical labs. With full assessments and completion tracking you will always know how you are progressing.
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The score of 3 stars is an average of the 2 categories this software really needs splitting into. I would give 4 Stars for the training and 2 stars for the ability to use this training to pass the MCSE exams.
Quick Summary: This package would be quite excellent for someone who wants to learn about how to set up and run a Windows 2008 Network, who doesn't already know how to set-up and/or run a windows network. It will help you to get underway to passing your Microsoft Exams, but as with all Microsoft training material, it falls well short of preparing you for the very difficult, intentionally misleading and misdirecting exam questions.
What's in the Box: This package consists of a DVD that connects you to the online training site. From here you can perform your training online, or download all the class lessons and go through them off-line (or a mixture of both). Once you have downloaded the courses you only need to go online to do the labs.
The online subscription to the labs and online training lasts for 1 year.
You can download all the course material as many times as you want, on multiple PCs. This is what I did, so that I could work through the courses at home, and in free time at work.
The expiry time on the downloaded material is 2017, for some reason.
What Training is Given: This training is the Microsoft Classroom Instructor led course that you would get in a classroom, but in software format. The fact that it is less than half the price of instructor led training makes it great value. Especially as the subscription period is for a year and it would only take a couple of weeks to go through all the material. And then you could use the material for reference, or redo a section if you have forgotten anything.
Who is it for: This software would be ideal for training new and junior members of an IT/ Network support team, or for training someone in a small business to set up and maintain a simple network.
The material in the course is good at getting over all the main points of the sections, but its outstanding strength are the labs. The labs are great and help you get the real hands on practice that is needed to put the training to use in the real world.
The Labs: The labs are delivered using remotely hosted virtual environments (let me just say here and now, I was hugely impressed with these). This means that you don't need to install Windows Server 2008 or anything else on your own PC or network. When you want to start a lab you simply click on the lab link and you are connected, via your browser, to a remotely hosted Virtual Active Directory Domain consisting of at least 2 Windows 2008 Servers, on which the lab runs.
The labs then ask you to perform operations that you learnt about in the lessons. As you are connected to real servers they behave correctly and you can really play around and go off lab script. If you mess everything up, you can simply reset the lab. Of course if you get stuck, the labs contain the answers.
As for Passing the Exams? : On it's own, Pretty Hopeless. This is not to denigrate what's here, because it's good, it's just that having taken and passed 3 MCSDs (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) I know this software alone will not prepare you for the difficulty and deviousness of the exams.
In order to pass you will need to use other training materials (Amazon sell quite a wide variety of exam prep and guide books).
If you are serious about taking your MCSE and you don't have an environment in which to practice your skills and apply this knowledge, then I would recommend this for the labs alone, because being able to practice helps cement what you have learnt is invaluable in the exam.
Quick Summary: This package would be quite excellent for someone who wants to learn about how to set up and run a Windows 2008 Network, who doesn't already know how to set-up and/or run a windows network. It will help you to get underway to passing your Microsoft Exams, but as with all Microsoft training material, it falls well short of preparing you for the very difficult, intentionally misleading and misdirecting exam questions.
What's in the Box: This package consists of a DVD that connects you to the online training site. From here you can perform your training online, or download all the class lessons and go through them off-line (or a mixture of both). Once you have downloaded the courses you only need to go online to do the labs.
The online subscription to the labs and online training lasts for 1 year.
You can download all the course material as many times as you want, on multiple PCs. This is what I did, so that I could work through the courses at home, and in free time at work.
The expiry time on the downloaded material is 2017, for some reason.
What Training is Given: This training is the Microsoft Classroom Instructor led course that you would get in a classroom, but in software format. The fact that it is less than half the price of instructor led training makes it great value. Especially as the subscription period is for a year and it would only take a couple of weeks to go through all the material. And then you could use the material for reference, or redo a section if you have forgotten anything.
Who is it for: This software would be ideal for training new and junior members of an IT/ Network support team, or for training someone in a small business to set up and maintain a simple network.
The material in the course is good at getting over all the main points of the sections, but its outstanding strength are the labs. The labs are great and help you get the real hands on practice that is needed to put the training to use in the real world.
The Labs: The labs are delivered using remotely hosted virtual environments (let me just say here and now, I was hugely impressed with these). This means that you don't need to install Windows Server 2008 or anything else on your own PC or network. When you want to start a lab you simply click on the lab link and you are connected, via your browser, to a remotely hosted Virtual Active Directory Domain consisting of at least 2 Windows 2008 Servers, on which the lab runs.
The labs then ask you to perform operations that you learnt about in the lessons. As you are connected to real servers they behave correctly and you can really play around and go off lab script. If you mess everything up, you can simply reset the lab. Of course if you get stuck, the labs contain the answers.
As for Passing the Exams? : On it's own, Pretty Hopeless. This is not to denigrate what's here, because it's good, it's just that having taken and passed 3 MCSDs (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) I know this software alone will not prepare you for the difficulty and deviousness of the exams.
In order to pass you will need to use other training materials (Amazon sell quite a wide variety of exam prep and guide books).
If you are serious about taking your MCSE and you don't have an environment in which to practice your skills and apply this knowledge, then I would recommend this for the labs alone, because being able to practice helps cement what you have learnt is invaluable in the exam.
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MCSE (or Microsoft Certified System Engineer in its unabbreviated form) offers interactive modular courses, that you work through at your own pace at home in order to obtain an industry recognized qualification. This particular course allows you to upgrade your existing Windows Server 2003 MCSE skills to Windows Server 2008. It covers Microsoft course numbers 6417, 6517 and 6528 and is recommended training towards the MCTS 70-649 Windows Server 2008 exam.
What I enjoy most about MCSE courses (after the qualification itself) is that it allows you to practice using extensive scenario-driven labs, and with the software assessments and completion tracking you'll know instantly how your progressing. The first couple of modules are quite easy and straightforward especially if you already have some degree of computing knowledge. The exams are computer based and are multiply choice questions. The sixty-hour course is divided into thirty two-hour lessons covering the various subjects. The reading material is well structured and offers good quality reading that's easy to understand.
Don't let the cost put you off as this is a worthwhile investment that looks good on your CV, and in todays industry anything that helps you get your foot in the door of the computing industry has to be worth the cost.
What I enjoy most about MCSE courses (after the qualification itself) is that it allows you to practice using extensive scenario-driven labs, and with the software assessments and completion tracking you'll know instantly how your progressing. The first couple of modules are quite easy and straightforward especially if you already have some degree of computing knowledge. The exams are computer based and are multiply choice questions. The sixty-hour course is divided into thirty two-hour lessons covering the various subjects. The reading material is well structured and offers good quality reading that's easy to understand.
Don't let the cost put you off as this is a worthwhile investment that looks good on your CV, and in todays industry anything that helps you get your foot in the door of the computing industry has to be worth the cost.
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