Thinking about buying UCertify labs for 70-740

dandadynamite

How good will UCertify labs prepare you for the exam? If theyre not good, which are the best labs to prepare you for 70-740??

N7Valiant

Best one would be your home lab.

Having someone else's pre-made lab that only lets you do "enter this Powershell command" does not help you retain the information compared to setting up your own environment and going outside the bounds of that pre-made lab or simulation.

There's also a question of whether your certification is merely a scrap of paper or whether you have real-world knowledge and won't choke up if you get asked technical questions during an interview.  There are a lot of caveats in a practical situation that books don't adequately cover.

For example, I'm studying for the 70-744 exam at the beginning covering Bitlocker on Windows Server and backing up the recovery keys to Active Directory, which I've done in the past.  It was nice to have a refresher by enabling Bitlocker using only Powershell and not the GUI, and then discovering that I need to manually declare -RecoveryKeyProtector and not just TPM alone to make that key available.

Wouldn't have known that just from reading the book (which can sometimes or often be wrong).

Recommended specs are:
-i5 or higher, 8 virtual cores or higher.
-16 GB of RAM or higher.
-500 GB of storage or higher.
-Windows 10 Pro or higher.

Not too terribly high requirements, I can run 6+ VMs in a virtual lab on a $1300 ASUS laptop, you could probably get it cheaper on a desktop.  Windows 10 Pro is the minimum required to enable Hyper-V, which you'll be using a lot (and you should given that it's a Microsoft exam).

jazz_01

Well, I recommend uCertify labs for 70-740 certification as they replace expensive physical labs and in most cases, these labs are autograded. It allows students to experiment and configure hardware such as a computer, server, switch or router in a risk-free environment.