This is one of the worst books geared toward exam prep written for the MCSE Track, This would be a good book to start with as it basicly just gives you a basic overview of all the main topics in all the core exams.
Good information, just not for what it is intended.

This book does not prepare you for the exam. Although it is full of useful information relevant to the exam, I felt that it did not cover all the bases as I would have expected from a Microsoft Press training kit. I had to seek additional material in order to ensure a pass.

Very well written with guidelines and tools to assist you in your study, especially liked the notes on what to focus on for taking test, questions at the end of each chapter were also an added bonus. Highly recommend this book, well structured and detailed.

I used this book to study for the 70-297 exam, like I did my other 6 MCSE exams and found this book to be the poorest of the MCSE collection. The book was too general and definitely did not prepare me well enough to pass the exam (I passed the other 6 exams first-time). I would recommend passing on this book and find something else to study from that includes an exam simlulation, as the exam format is very different from other exams.

I've done an semi instructer led classroom training, where I recieved the Microsoft official Course book (MOC) aswell. I used this book to lookup the subjects that weren't covered in the MOC book.
Also after the training with the MOC was finished I used this book to read up about the subjects I failed in the test exams, because this book has a different way of explaning things.
I had to do the exam twice because without being in an enterprise it is hard to relate to the subjects.