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Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-652and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to: Install, configure, and optimize Hyper-V Prepare management infrastructure, including remote administration
Create and deploy VMs and VHDs
Perform physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual migrations
Plan security for hosts, VMs, and resource pools
Automate Hyper-V operations
Configure and manage high-availability clusters
Monitor and optimize performance
Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answersincluding a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.
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Official self-paced study guide. Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results. 200+ practice and review questions. Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices. Fully searchable eBook of this guide, plus sample chapters from related books.
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Synopsis
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-652—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:
- Install, configure, and optimize Hyper-V
- Prepare management infrastructure, including remote administration
- Create and deploy VMs and VHDs
- Perform physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual migrations
- Plan security for hosts, VMs, and resource pools
- Automate Hyper-V operations
- Configure and manage high-availability clusters
- Monitor and optimize performance
Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.
Your kit includes:
- Official self-paced study guide.
- Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
- 200+ practice and review questions.
- Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
- Fully searchable eBook of this guide, plus sample chapters from related books.
For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.
About the Author
Nelson Ruest, MCSE+Security, MCT, MVP, is a senior architect focused on systems management and administration.
Danielle Ruest, MVP, is a senior enterprise workflow architect and consultant with 20+ years' experience in project implementations. She and Nelson Ruest are coauthors of Microsoft Windows Server 2008: The Complete Reference.
GrandMasters is an IT consulting firm specializing in IT content development, exam development, and custom technical support.
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Exam 70-652: Configuring Windows Server Virtualization
- Exam 70-403: Configuring System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Implementing Microsoft Hyper-V
- Chapter 2: Configuring Hyper-V Hosts
- Chapter 3: Completing Resource Pool Configurations
- Chapter 4: Creating Virtual Machines
- Chapter 5: Automating Virtual Machine Creation
- Chapter 6: Migrating to Hyper-V
- Chapter 7: Automating VM Management with Windows PowerShell
- Chapter 8: Securing Hosts and Virtual Machines
- Chapter 9: Protecting Hyper-V Resource Pools
- Chapter 10: Configuring Virtual Machine High Availability
- Glossary
- About the Authors