MCITP: Enterprise Admin - anyone have this?

thewanted said:
Quite a few questions on AD CS, DNS and groups.
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Knubje said:
Anything to watch out for on this particular exam?
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There were also a few questions on AD RMS and AD maintenance tasks. If you have a few years of AD experience under your belt (and I don't mean creating users and adding them to groups) you should be fine.

I used the Transcender study guides and practice tests along with the MS Press book.
 
Knubje said:
Out of interest, other than the self paced book/cd-rom what other resources did you use?

I have a fair few test theory questions and the CBT nugget videos for the 70-640.

I am up to about chapter 10 but then stopped for a few months because I moved house,etc. Gotta start re-learning I think.

Anything to watch out for on this particular exam?
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I've been doing a night course at a local school which teach you the MS Labs.

For my home revision the second time around instead of using the MeassureUp online practice exams (got an account with my course) I used the MeassureUp exams that came on the Self-Paced CD which are more like the real exam questions and I reread the DNS and CA chapters

The questions are worded to catch you out so make sure you read and reread them again and try and think of the process you would do in your head rather than just reading the multichoice answers and going with one that sounds about right. You'll be supprised how many time you get catched out doing the mock questions

Make sure you learn what all the active directory commands and tools exactly do and know when to Raise a domain or Forrest functional level etc
 
Booked in to do 70-642 this afternoon I'll let you know how I get on

Edit/ Passed! :)
 
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Belated congrats :P

I'm going to book the 70-640 exam soon i think!

Has anyone taken then 70-643 exam (application infrastructure) - just wondering if it includes Server 2008 R2 related questions (as my material doesn't include it!)
 
OCdude said:
Belated congrats :P

I'm going to book the 70-640 exam soon i think!

Has anyone taken then 70-643 exam (application infrastructure) - just wondering if it includes Server 2008 R2 related questions (as my material doesn't include it!)
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Cheers Bud :)

70-642 was 70 questions, 30 beta which didn't count towards the final score but you have no idea which ones are which :eek:

I'm pretty sure all the exams are based on Server 2008 not R2 release. None of my study material are based on R2 and 70-640 and 70-642 have nothing specfic on R2 the questions I had anyway.

Good luck
 
Zaf said:
Cheers Bud :)

70-642 was 70 questions, 30 beta which didn't count towards the final score but you have no idea which ones are which :eek:

I'm pretty sure all the exams are based on Server 2008 not R2 release. None of my study material are based on R2 and 70-640 and 70-642 have nothing specfic on R2 the questions I had anyway.

Good luck
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Questions that don't count towards your final score.... lol odd :eek:

Another question! Did you get many AD FS or AD Certiificate Services in the 640 exam?

In all the test exams i've done, they seem to focus on that quite a lot :/
 
PistolPete said:
I'm not an MCITP yet, but I am a triple MCSE (NT, 2000 & 2003)

Had I not taken upgrade routes for 2000 & 2003 I would have taken the client exam first (in this case Windows 7) as you'll generally have more exposure to it running it at home over 2008 server.

Then I'll be doing the others in the order shown. 640, 642, 643 then 647.
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mind me asking what you do for a job?:)
 
Ev0 said:
A lot of IT exams are like this, all the ones I've done bar an ITIL one have beta questions in that don't count towards the final mark.
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I don't think my CCNA + CCNP exams had beta questions in... unless I just wasn't told lol
 
OCdude said:
Questions that don't count towards your final score.... lol odd :eek:

Another question! Did you get many AD FS or AD Certiificate Services in the 640 exam?

In all the test exams i've done, they seem to focus on that quite a lot :/
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Yes loads :p

Lots on DNS too!!
 
OCdude said:
Bah :(

Guess i'll be going back over Certificate stuff then :'( lol
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That's what I had to do after failing first time round its hard because I never touch them at my current job. If your getting around say 90% on the measure up exam questions you should be alright as they are generally harder I think
 
Zaf said:
That's what I had to do after failing first time round its hard because I never touch them at my current job. If your getting around say 90% on the measure up exam questions you should be alright as they are generally harder I think
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hmm. It's annoying because the material i've been using, only really covers CA stuff at the end, as a brief introduction. Then basically goes: yeaaah, you might wanna read up more about this before the exam!

Great! lol
 
I'm currently studying 70-680 Configuring Windows 7.

I need some advice on how to set-up a lab for the exercises.
I want to use virtual machines, is one enough?
I have a retail copy of Win 7 HP not yet installed and I can also install a MSDN Win 7 Evaluation for 90 days.

Any pointers on how to go about it? Thanks.
 
I use Vmware workstation for my labs - and have currently got 7 servers and 2 clients on there (couple of DC's/RRAS/Clusters) - although I dont use them all at once.

I install the OS as usual and then take a snapshot of it so I can jump back and forth from config changes (i.e. jump to a cluster node or DC etc).. I've tried vmware server, which will probably by ok for your needs (free too!) but find workstation better for more complicated things.

I can't remember exactly what 680 covered, but I'd imagine you'll be able to cover most by just setting up a client, but if you can I'd setup a DC with a test domain and join the client to it :)
 
HamZilla said:
I'm currently studying 70-680 Configuring Windows 7.

I need some advice on how to set-up a lab for the exercises.
I want to use virtual machines, is one enough?
I have a retail copy of Win 7 HP not yet installed and I can also install a MSDN Win 7 Evaluation for 90 days.

Any pointers on how to go about it? Thanks.
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Start looking into setting up a ESXi Whitebox

http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php
 
HamZilla said:
I'm currently studying 70-680 Configuring Windows 7.

I need some advice on how to set-up a lab for the exercises.
I want to use virtual machines, is one enough?
I have a retail copy of Win 7 HP not yet installed and I can also install a MSDN Win 7 Evaluation for 90 days.

Any pointers on how to go about it? Thanks.
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For VMs just use virtualBox, my quadcore system runs 4 VMs fairly easily and should be ample for Windows 7

According to the Microsoft certs planner I only need one exam :)

MW
 
Had to write an exam before the end of the quarter for work, ie. tomorrow, so just booked the 70-642 and wrote it without studying at all. Couldn't be arsed to study over Xmas.

656/1000.... so close! Will put a bit more effort into the re-take. Anyone written 70-643 lately? Opinions, tips, etc?
 
Mr-White said:
According to the Microsoft certs planner I only need one exam :)
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I remember checking mine before I got the MCSE 2003 and thinking I only needed one exam. Once I did the exam I realised that I needed another one - it wasn't exactly obvious either!

The exam planner is really good but it can be so damn confusing sometimes!



M.
 
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