70-413 How do you prepare for Cloud questions?

it2b

Finished the MCSA and really wanted to complete the MCSE. The objectives for the 70-413 are concerning me since they contain a lot of cloud and System Center products that we don't use in our environment. How does one prepare for these kind of topics? You can't really make a home lab for DirSync or Azure.

•plan for deploying servers to public and private cloud by using AppController
•Plan for deploying servers to Microsoft Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS);
•integrate IPAM with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
•Design considerations including ... Microsoft Azure Active Directory and DirSync

My VMWare experience helped on the MCSA, but there seems to be a heavier emphasis on SCVVM is these objectives.

I also don't see a lot of discussion on the 70-413/414 tests here. I am guessing others have my apprehensions.

6502

I was just thinking about this today and I share your apprehensions. Right now I don't think it works out for me. I'll just stick with my MCSA for now and maybe pursue RHCSA. I hope my next job has more networking and less Microsoft anyway.

aaronchristenson

I am struggling with finding a lab or instructions on building one for any of the System Center portions of the exam.

netsysllc

Maybe some of these will help. I am taking the test (again) Saturday. Failed my first attempt when they updated the test 3 days early in April with any luck I will pass it this time.

Step-by-Step: Build Your Cloud with System Center 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure - KeithMayer.com - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
How to install and configure Azure PowerShell
What
Site-to-Site VPN in Azure Virtual Network using Windows Server 2012 Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
How To Install ADFS 2012 R2 For Office 365 - 250 Hello - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

it2b

netsysllc wrote: »

Maybe some of these will help. I am taking the test (again) Saturday. Failed my first attempt when they updated the test 3 days early in April with any luck I will pass it this time.

Step-by-Step: Build Your Cloud with System Center 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure - KeithMayer.com - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
How to install and configure Azure PowerShell
What
Site-to-Site VPN in Azure Virtual Network using Windows Server 2012 Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
How To Install ADFS 2012 R2 For Office 365 - 250 Hello - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Thanks for the links. I will check them out. Was the test heavy on System Center and Cloud topics?

aaronchristenson

Check out this blog I found. This guys lab for System Center is very well documented.

System Center 2012 SP1 in a LAB

After you follow the initial build A,B,C,D then across the top is the various different System Center components guides.