MCSA Microsoft Windows 10 Study Guide: Exam 70-697

Like many of the others have said, the book by itself will not fully prepare you for the test. However, this book does touch on most of the material and does so in and easy to understand way. To me, this book is a very good high level overview of what to expect as well as a decent means to get yourself acquainted with the new features of Windows 10. To which point it does get down into some detail about many of the new features in Windows 10. Also, I did find the test questions to be particularly helpful. I am using cbtnuggets in conjunction with the study guide, which covers more in-depth what the book didn't. Overall, I would recommend the book, but you will definitely need to put in more work beyond just reading the book and reviewing the test bank. Lots of familiarity with the OS and practice/hands-on is a must.

It's unfortunate that for a certificate study guide there seems to be quite a few errors and omissions that somehow got past both the author, editor, and publisher. I really wanted to rely on this book as the 'bible' for this certificate, but I'm at page 121 (of almost 500) and found some blatant mistakes/errors.The obvious one that is even mentioned here on Amazon is that the link to register the book and get supplemental material was printed wrong in the book. Use the link listed here on the book landing page, and then go through the obscure process of registering the book, getting an account, trading emails, to finally get to the stuff. Extra steps for no real reason.So, you want some examples?- Pg 121 author references 'Tool' that there are three of them, yet the book only outlines 2 of the 3, skipping over 'Backup' altogether.- Pg 45. Review question #4 refers to the correct answer as 'Device Stage'. I defy anyone to show me where 'Device Stage' is listed in the book...not the chapter, not the glossary, nowhere.- Pg 82. Author says the 'Next 3 exercises will help in creating virtual hard disks" starting with Exercise 2.7. The next 2 exercises are completely omitted, not even mentioned or referenced. Instead New Topic 'Creating Virtual Machines' is introduced. Huh?- Pg 154. Exam Question 4 inquires about 'features' of dynamic disks solely for Win 10. Explanation of Answer "D" (pg 496) instead talks about supports of all Win OS's that doesn't even come close to the Answer D on pg 155. This answer is way out of context.- Pg 298. Chap 6 Exam Question 10. According to the answer key on pg 499, the correct answers are B & C. However, the choices provided for C & D are exactly the same....WORD FOR WORD. So technically, B, C & D are correct since C & D are the same answer.There are a few others as well, but that's not a great sign when you are only 1/5th through the material and you can locate some pretty major errors.

I found this to be the most helpful book I read in preparation for the exam. The one suggested by MS is ok, but as others have noticed it mostly redirects online to dig deeper into topics, whereas this one does the digging in the book itself. The chapter-end quizzes were good, but the online material was the most helpful. Flash cards and several tests were available, either open-book with clues or exam-style, and these helped build my confidence before the exam.I do not work in an enterprise environment. This book, and the one by Bettany & Warren, were the only ones I used to prepare for the exams, and pass on the first try. Of course, I researched a lot online, got a free Intune trial to play around, and explored with VMs to get practical experience, but the books are what got me across the finish line on test day.

I passed the 70-697 today, hype!!! It was hard, not going to lie, even after preparing for it for months. I did buy this book some months ago but found when I purchased the measureup practice test that the book was lacking. I added CBT nuggets 70-697 to go along with it and STILL felt slightly unprepared for the test. If I had to gauge which gave me more knowledge, I'd say CBT nuggets did as I took all of my notes from the videos and skipped the book entirely only using it for small references when i felt i was missing something.As I stated earlier, you will encounter questions that'll make you mad as hell because neither reference material mentioned this. There were a few questions where I was blitzed by PS fill in the blank about Storage. The other questions that'll piss you off are the put commands in sequence or you get the whole thing wrong questions. All I can advise if when you run across explanations during learning that list commands in order, write them down. Even still, you'll run across some questions you have to work out as you may not exactly know the answer. This is where your knowledge of what answers are wrong will really shine.My suggestion is to use multiple sources to study for this including the practice measureup exam. That will definitely give you a heads up on the types of questions thrown your way and how to prepare for them. At the end of the day, the goal is to PASS the test, not score the highest in history. It's tough so be prepared. I'm going to take a break from studying (I told myself no video games until I passed) and get back into the job market. Good luck to everyone!

Well written and spot on for the subject. Panek makes the best of a tedious and boring Microsoft excursion into Administrator torture. Great book, Windows 10 is what there is, and what will be, for good or ill. This book will get you certified.

I had some issues with the online practice tests but overall this is a good study guide.

Seems to cover all necessary topics to pass the test.

At the end of each chapter, there're some review questions. The content of these review questions have a completely different perspective from the content of the chapters. If these questions are based on the MS test, the author, in my opinion, needs to completely rewrite the chapters to match how the questions are asked. Unfortunately, I had to buy this book because is the material proposed by my college, but if I had the chance to buy another book, I would.

Gracias por la atencion, buen producto, buen servicio, es lo que esperaba, sigan adelante con esta atención, saludos desde Guadalajara, Jalisco.

good. very good

Excellent