70-681 Passed Today

Miikey87

Today I sat the 70-681 for work. I spent two weeks working through the awesome compelation by Calymoore and following along to deployment guides with my Hyper-V server.

Interesting exam, I did not study SCCM enough nor do I think I deserved the pass that I received for this exam. Hopefully I will come back to this some day for work or for my own personal development to nail the topics down a bit better.

Onto Sharepoint 2010, Configuring now as the next one to hit.

Essendon

Nicely done bud. Good luck with the Sharepoint test. What all materials do you intend using for the Sharepoint exam?

earweed

Congrats on the new cert. What's your incentive for taking the Sharepoint exam? Do you have some, or expect to get some, experience with it?

Miikey87

I dont have much for Sharepoint 2010 at the moment, I am reading through and working with the Administrative Companion. There aren't much other materials or books out there for the exam which is a worry.

I have very limited experience, as much as setting up some basic things for my SBS deployments, thats about it really. My main incentive is that work has given me a list of exams and a deadline to be certified for them. Im hoping this may be favourable come my review in January having met all of their requirements. We aim at the small / mid market, I am hoping once I am done i will finish my SA and EA tracks then spend some more time working further on sharepoint. I really need to get my exposure and understanding up on it thou.

earweed

Doesn't SBS just use the scaled down sharepoint, Sharepoint 3.0. You may want to get a technet subscription or talk to work about getting one so you can get the full Sharepoint version to lab with. I set up SBS at a friends office and didn't even know it had sharepoint ubtil I was already doing the setup. I'm having to go back and do fixes as I've learned more about it. Looking into whether I can upgrade him to Sharepoint Foundation 2010 but there is almost nothing available to study for that.
Once I got to studying Sharepoint 3.0 it got pretty interesting and I've been kind of thinking about studying the full blown version too.
First things first thaough I have to finish my MCITP:EA and my degree at WGU.