Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-687—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery configuring Windows 8.1. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

•         Install and upgrade to Windows 8.1
•         Configure hardware and applications
•         Configure network connectivity
•         Configure access to resources
•         Configure remote access and mobility
•         Monitor and maintain Windows clients
•         Configure system and data recovery options

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

•         Is fully updated for the Windows 8.1 exam.
•         Organizes its coverage by exam objectives.
•         Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you.
•         Assumes you have experience configuring Windows 8.1 computer, devices, user setting, and associated network and security resources.

About The Author

JOLI BALLEW is a Microsoft MVP for Windows and holds many Microsoft certifications, including MCSE, MCTS, MCDST, and MCT. She is an award-winning, best-selling technical author of over 50 books. Joli has been working with computers, gadgets, and all things media since her freshman year in college in 1982, where, even then, she was aware of her interests and strengths and majored in computer science and systems analysis. Joli is the Microsoft IT Academic Coordinator at Brookhaven College in Dallas, Texas, where she also teaches. Among the many titles Joli has written for Microsoft Press, she is the co-author of MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-632): Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007 and Windows 8.1 Plain & Simple.