Just passed 70-697. What next?

ChrisShef

Hi all, I just passed my first ever Microsoft certification on the 2nd try, the first try I scored a 654 which I was pretty happy about considering all the things I heard about it on here. Second try 3 weeks later I scored a 770.

I used CBT Nuggets. The Doc AMD4EVER created(thankyou!) MeasureUp Practice Exams, the 70-697 official book and some random tests I found online.

Now that I have that exam passed I'm wondering what to do next. The 2016 MS roadmap shows 8.1 exams involved in achieving a MCSA in Windows 10. I assume this is because the exams are fairly new and all have not been released yet?

The material I read online states I should be a MCP now is that correct?

It was definitely an interesting exam to study for. I feel like I did not actually learn that much that would transfer into the real world. It's more about reading the question carefully and picking the microsoft way.

Thanks

Piers

Congratulations on passing! and yes, passing any MS exam gives you the MCP designation.

As for what's next? I don't think going backwards to Windows 8 holds any value, and you'd need to pass 2 exams to get the MCSA, but you can also get that by passing the other Windows 10 exam, the 70-698. You've already got Windows 10 on the brain, why not stick with it.

I just passed the 697 last week as well, and personally I was torn about where to go next. I'm pretty familiar with OS's and definitely plan to write the 698 in the next year, but the 697 had areas I wasn't familiar with, like InTune and Office365. AzureAD was new-ish as well, but I finished the Server2012 MCSA in the spring, so transferring the knowledge to a cloud based AD wasn't a huge stretch. The last section I really concentrated on for the 697 was Office365, so that MCSA was actually in the forefront until I secured a seat for the Server2016 beta.