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BaseballPCHiker posted:drat. I need to get off my rear end and finish that test. I've read through just the first couple pages of that book that was posted. Is it pretty much just memorizing all of their vocab and acronyms? I took my ITIL v3 Foundation a few years ago and thats basically it. Easiest cert I've ever passed.
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Has anyone passed the 70-243 SCCM certification? How much Intune crap do you need to know? I built my company's SCCM infrastructure so I feel comfortable taking a blind leap into the test except we don't use Intune and can't really think of a way to lab it.
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Garrand posted:So for those people who were purely self study, did you form any special habits or anything to help you get through? If you really want to put a fire under your rear end, register and pay for the 70-410 test right now for a month in the future. That's your deadline. It'll prepare you for your future career as a system admin.
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Oct 28, 2014 15:31
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Garrand posted:I was actually aiming for 70-680 and 70-685 first, as it seemed more up my alley (Windows 7 and Desktop support) since I don't have any professional experience whatsoever. I'm...uh not making a mistake, am I? It has more to do with personal preference, right? I wouldn't just be throwing hundreds of dollars down the drain? As someone still on the outside it's kind of difficult to figure out what will best land me a decent job with learning opportunities. Also not sure what certs will be considered outdated sooner than others. No mistakes. Usually when I talk to people about MS certs they're going for either MCSA or MCSE. Go with what you're comfortable with and feel like you have a grasp on. To be honest, back in the XP/2003 days I found the server tests much much easier then the XP tests. I haven't taken an OS cert since then so I don't know if that's still the case. mattfl posted:I'm sitting in a 70-410 class this week, because hey free training from work why not!? Holy christ, New Horizons is such a joke of a training center. There are people in this class who have never done ANYTHING in IT before. I'm talking, one guy had to ask the instructor how to move his IE window from one monitor to another!! There are 10 people in this class, 3 of us have actual IT jobs, the rest are either ex military and new horizons is sucking all that sweet sweet GI Bill money from them and the others are currently out of working looking for a new career. 2 of the ex military people have already failed the A+ exam and are on full MSCE tracks and basically taking 410-411-412-413 week after week. I've wound up helping the instructor on most of the modules otherwise we'd have never gotten past module one because no one has a freaking clue. How can people/new horizons honestly think this is a good class for someone with no IT experience. I've gotten almost nothing out of this class except a free test Cert and will be studying for the test on my own as this class will not prepare anyone for the test. This is pretty much why my company stopped booking classes with Global Knowledge. We sent several people to Exchange "Boot camps" (they stopped doing cert tests at the end) and Adv AD management classes and ended up with rooms full of people that didn't know how to reset a password. We switched to Learning Tree which is a little better but still not perfect.
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Oct 29, 2014 16:26
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Just passed my 70-410 today. After I finish my school projects I'm going for my 411 and 412. I'm hoping to be MCSA by the end of the year. It's been a while since I've taken one of these certs but I was asked to turn my pockets out and show I didn't have anything in them and lift my sleeves. They asked me to remove my watch too. Is this the standard now?
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Nov 1, 2014 22:22
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Contingency posted:Is this Pearson or Prometric? Haven't been asked to lift sleeves, but watch and pockets has been the standard at Pearson for a few years now. Yeah it was my first time taking one with Pearson. Last time I took a cert test was Prometric. They asked to hold on to my phone and that was it. I guess next time I'll leave everything in the car.
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Nov 1, 2014 23:16
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skipdogg posted:I've read the books don't cover enough material to pass the test. There are some threads over at TechExams.net that go over the tests pretty well and people post feedback and results there. The problem is some of the questions from 70-411 is in the 70-410 exam. There were questions about HyperV, WDS and even VPN that either weren't in the material or I missed. I'm working on 70-411 now and I'm skimming some of 70-412 just to be safe. edit - Found another example. I'm reading on DC Cloning in 70-411 but I had at least one question on the 70-410 exam. Sacred Cow fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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univbee posted:Thanks for this. This exam has been kicking my rear end (failed it twice with 620ish) so hopefully this will let me laser focus. Microsoft want you to come out of training full of ideas hoping that you'll go to your boss and tell them about all the wonderful integrated services WINDOWS SERVER 2012R2 STANDARD AND DATACENTER can offer your business.
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Nov 6, 2014 16:47
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Lord Dudeguy posted:I'm more than a little upset over how MCSE: Communication and Messaging (Lync and Exchange) require Office 365 exams now. Its only an "alternate path" to an MCSA. If you go to Microsoft's cert site they still allow 70-410 - 70-412 as a way to get an MCSE in Communication or Messaging under "Additional Options". They're really pushing it because O365 is pretty much standard for any EA now. Also, never do a standalone O365 Lync deployment unless you hate controlling policies. You only have access to about 10 Powershell commands and 9 of them are "Get-".
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Nov 8, 2014 15:07
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MJP posted:I came out of helpdesk/desktop support into sysadmin by getting my MCSAs. I had zero networking experience and very moderate networking knowledge - basic ping/traceroute, making cables, knowing a little bit about different physical network layouts. If you go for a Server 2012 R2 MCSE, then yeah its "HYPERVHYPERVHYPERV!!!!!!!" but thankfully after you make it past the MCSA you can start going into specialized MCSE's. I'm personally aiming for the Desktop Infrastructure certs but they have a track for just about every service you may be interested in. I'm also pretty happy they gave alternatives to the 70-412 since its mostly about MS's solutions to backup, failover and Hyper-V storage management. You're more likely to deal with O365 management then Hyper-V.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:43
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m.hache posted:Anyone use pluralsight for exam prep? The problem with any video series is they're not going to give you everything you need to pass an exam. They hit the highlights and you're supposed to fill in the gaps through practice on your own in a lab environment.
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Mar 31, 2015 18:28
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m.hache posted:I guess I need exercises then. I have a lab environment set up and I feel fairly comfortable with it (I've been working with these systems for a while now in production) but for some reason the hypothetical questions they posed on the exam just seemed overly complicated. Routing tables and how to troubleshoot/manage Hyper-V NICs using PowerShell was what threw me off when I took it. Luckily PS is pretty easy to guess if you've worked with it before. Have you set up a Server Core with ADDS/DNS/DHCP yet? It sucks but it forces you to learn most if not all the PS commands they expect you to know.
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Mar 31, 2015 18:55
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m.hache posted:Failed the 410 again. The tests are ridiculous. I passed the 410 a few months ago. I've been doing some form of MS server management for about 5 years now. I'd say about 50% of the questions and study material was applicable to my day to day job. The biggest problem with studying for the 410 is that it covers such a wide amount of server stuff at a high level, so you can study your rear end off on your weakest subject and never end up getting asked about it. When I took mine it was all Hyper-V and file sharing and only 1 Group Policy question which is where I'm my strongest. My one testing horror story was back when I took my XP certification for the first time and had 10 questions in a row about fax settings followed by 3 questions about setting up wireless IR printers. I failed that one pretty drat hard.
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Apr 29, 2015 18:09
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m.hache posted:
My intro to programming class was like that. They had us write out pseudo code to make sure we understood the logical layout and concepts of coding. It felt annoying at first but I understand why they have you do it. Also get used to not having full access to a shell when testing. I don't know if they still do this but the Cisco tests I've taken (and failed) disable help and tab completion. If I remember correctly there were a few questions on the 410 that ask for the best way to complete a task where the correct answer was still a CMD command and not Powershell.
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Apr 29, 2015 20:30
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Eonwe posted:wow The 410 has a pool of around 400 questions and they pick 40 of them at random. I didn't get any FSMO, OU or trust questions either. The User Creation question I got was the one I was thinking of where they want the CMD instead of Powershell.
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Beefstorm posted:The OP didn't have too much on MCSA certification. Is there any reason not to pursue them? MCSA is a great path to go down. Still working on mine. You'll end up using about 20% of what you've learned in the real world but its a really important 20%. The other 80% is basically marketing to get you to run a 100% Windows shop ("Please user Hyper-V instead of VMware. Pretty please"). Good luck making a lab for most of the stuff covered in 70-411.
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