Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012: Exam Ref 70-410

by Craig Zacker

Prepare for Exam 70-410 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Windows Server 2012 core infrastructure services. Exam 70-410 is one of three required exams for the new Windows Server 2008 certification from Microsoft. Organized by exam objectives, and featuring challenging, what-if scenarios, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical skills and knowledge needed to implement and configure Windows Server 2012 core services in an enterprise environment. Validate your expertise on these exam

Genres: Computers, Nonfiction, Computer Science

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 26, 2012

About the author

Craig Zacker is a writer, editor, and educator who has written or contributed to dozens of books on operating systems, networking, and PC hardware, as well as several college texts and online training courses. Craig is the author of the Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant, and co-authored the MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-686): Windows 7 Desktop Administrator.

Reviews

[Norman Bodnar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this was a very solid book and it did a great job covering the certification-specific concentration areas. I gave it 5 stars. I wish those who rated the book lower would post a review saying why they felt differently.

The point of this book is to provide the necessary information for passing the certification. The author still provided a wealth of history on top of this. I truly appreciate all the detail he went into with commandline automation tools for AD including Powershell and older utilities.

This is not a book to learn EVERYTHING about printing, Hyper-V, Active Directory administration, etc. That would require a separate book for each topic alone.

The author gives all the necessary certification "factoids" to remember and very good instructions to get rolling on each of the exam topics. You absolutely need to use this book side-by-side with your own virtual lab. At the minimum, a virtual machine setup with Windows 2012 R2 and a client OS (Windows 7 or 8). Actively following along with the book and your own lab is critical, and the book is very complimentary to this process. Anything less would be like reading a book on Yoga but never breaking out a Yoga mat and doing it.

This was one of the better certification prep books I've studied.

[Dmitry Chernoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book pretty good and solid, but it covers 30-40% material for passing 70-410 exam.
A lot of questions are not mentioned at all and there are a lot of them in the exam, eventually you have to spend many hours reading articles scattered around Microsoft sites. In this case, Microsoft's logic is not clear, why publish a book that does not cover even 50% of the material for passing the 70-410 exam.

[Nawfal Mahdi · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is such a great book. Well organized, informative and highly recommend this book...

[Joredos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great stuff. Straight to the point(certification exam).Not so digging deeper into the engeenier but give good perspective how powerful Windows Server is.

[Mekki · Rating 3 out of 5]

with this book and some hands on practice you should be able to pass 70-410

[Samad Alimadadi]

very nice book
contains very essential subjects
I'm in page 121 and I enjoy reading it