Re: virtual machines and virtual labs/simulations

Find a good study guide for each exam and look at the requirements for
the exercises to see what you will need to have and install. MS Press
and/or Sybex usually have good study guides and they have a section at
the beginning of the book describing the hardware and OS requirements.
Most of the exams involve server and you'll need at least two of them for
many exams.

The laptop may be good enough to get through most of the topics for the
client OS (although you will not be able to actually play with dynamic
disks on a laptop). You'll need to make sure your other machines meet
the minimum requirements to install server and that the hardware is on
the hardware compatibility list/windows catalog.

I haven't found any simulators for this stuff that work well.
VMWare/VirtualPC/VirtualServer are the closest you can get. I have three
machines I use plus VMWare and I'm able to simulate quite a lot with
that. I have it setup so that guest OSs on one machine can communicate
with guest OSs on another and have managed to create a pretty decent
network simulation that way.

Good luck!

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