subject: Taking The 70-620 Ts: Windows Vista, Configuring Exam [print this page] If you go for the MCTS: Windows Vista, you will have to take an exam covering a client operating system. One exam,
you can take the 70-620: Configuring Microsoft Windows Vista. The first place you should look when preparing for this exam is to visit Microsofts website
that will show the exam objectives, http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-620.mspx. When taking the exam, you should have 90 minutes to complete 50
questions.
The objectives are broken down to the following main groups:
Installing and Upgrading Windows Vista
Configuring and Troubleshooting Post-Installation System Settings
Configuring Windows Security Features
Configuring Network Connectivity
Configuring Applications Included with Windows Vista
Maintaining and Optimizing Systems That Run Windows Vista
Configuring and Troubleshooting Mobile Computing
As with an Windows Vista exam operating system, you should first start with how to install Windows Vista. Besides
running the normal installation DVD, you also need to be familiar with how to install Windows Vista with answer files, Windows images, ImageX, and Sysprep.
You will then need to know how to upgrade from older versions of Windows to Windows Vista and from one version of Windows Vista to another version of Windows
Vista. You will also need to know how to migrate data files and settings from one computer running Windows to a new computer running Windows Vista using
Windows Easy Transfer (WET) and User State Migration Tool V3.0.
One of the new enhancements to the Windows Interface is Windows Aero. Therefore, you need to know the requirements for Aero to work including the color
depth, the refresh rate, theme, color scheme and frame transparency.
With Windows Vista, Microsoft has enhanced some tools while introducing entirely new set of tools. For the exam, you will need to know accessibility tools
and parental control. Of course, since the wide adoption of IPv6 is right around the corner, you will need to know how to configure IPv4 and IPv6. In
addition, since wireless technology has become commonplace, you will need to know free Cisco IT
