I passed my first MS exam earlier this week, I'm over the moon

Took me 3 months working my way through the following.
Pluralsight video training by Tony Northup
CBT Nuggets video training by Anthony Sequeira
MS exam reference 70-687 - Configuring Windows 8 Book (Lost track of how many times I referred back to this)
Transender practice tests (Very tough but great explanations and reference links)
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Lots of labbing: whereby I installed Windows 8 Ent from the ground up multiple times, then went onto working my way through EFS, Bitlocker, Bitlocker to go etc etc
Certainly wasn't any easy exam in comparison to the other exams I have taken thus far and I could tell it was expected that you knew the finer details, be warned.
Onwards to 70-688 which I fear will be an even steeper curve

, wish me luck!