Ace your preparation for the skills measured by Exam 70-462—and on the job—with this official Microsoft study guide.


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.

Maximize your performance on the exam by mastering the skills and experience measured by these objectives:

• Install and configure SQL Server
• Maintain instances and databases
• Optimize and troubleshoot SQL Server
• Manage data
• Implement security
• Implement high availability.

Practice tests

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.