Just Passed 70-640

I just passed the Active Directory Exam, Now I'd really love to start the next one preparation which is 70-642.

Special Thanks to everyone helped me here to prepare for the 70-640 exam.

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Krunchi

Good Job

642 was easier to me way less topics to cover good luck with it.

Danny boy

Congratulations on the pass. I'm taking the exam on Thursday, can you give me any tips on what areas I should focus on?

Krunchi

Danny boy wrote: »

Congratulations on the pass. I'm taking the exam on Thursday, can you give me any tips on what areas I should focus on?

I would have to say DNS and Certificates are the two objectives that I saw more of on the test.
As for tips the Microsoft way is the command prompt over the GUI.

Ivanr4g63

Nice!
I agree with 70-642 being a bit less stressful because it has less topics within one exam, not to take for granted though, in this exam expect to see much more detailed DNS scenarios and overall Network Infra. Lab for it as much as you can.

Congrats on the pass!

Danny boy

Krunchi wrote: »

I would have to say DNS and Certificates are the two objectives that I saw more of on the test.
As for tips the Microsoft way is the command prompt over the GUI.

Thanks Krunchi I'll be sure to give those topics a through going over

Dakinggamer87

Congrats on pass!!

Psoasman

Congrats on your pass!

IT Explorer

Thanks to all ( Krunchi , Danny boy , Ivanr4g63 , Dakinggamer87 and Psoasman )

Danny boy wrote: »

Congratulations on the pass. I'm taking the exam on Thursday, can you give me any tips on what areas I should focus on?

I agree with Krunchi DNS , AD CS and GPO were the most focused in my exam, command prompt is Mainly focued especially in ( DNS , AD CS ) topics and in all topic as general. There were no sims, no drag and drop ,and only 50 Qs, but you must expect all types of questions.

Devilry

Congrats on your pass! What materials did you use? I'm taking this after 70-680 this month.

IT Explorer

Congrats on your pass! What materials did you use? I'm taking this after 70-680 this month.

thanks Devilry,
I used Microsoft self-paced training kit with its labs and also 70-640 training kit ( Exam Cram ) by Don Poulton ( it deserve a look ), watched video training materials , and picked up the r2 topics from Microsoft technet , all of these (with gui plus cmd) Finally I did my own labs for most objectives,

Best Wishes

Devilry

IT Explorer wrote: »

thanks Devilry,
I used Microsoft self-paced training kit with its labs and also 70-640 training kit ( Exam Cram ) by Don Poulton ( it deserve a look ), watched video training materials , and picked up the r2 topics from Microsoft technet , all of these (with gui plus cmd) Finally I did my own labs for most objectives,

Best Wishes

Thanks for the info, I haven't really seen it mentioned, but is the MS Press kit better than the 70-680? i.e.; no errors.

Or does it have the same issues?

I love Poulton for the 70-680, it would be great to use another one of his books.

IT Explorer

Devilry wrote: »

Thanks for the info, I haven't really seen it mentioned, but is the MS Press kit better than the 70-680? i.e.; no errors.

Or does it have the same issues?

I love Poulton for the 70-680, it would be great to use another one of his books.

since it is human work their will be a percentage of errors anywhere, I didn't talk about errors o.k , as well as I didn't compare the two books (MS and poulton), I said that I finished MS one and gave the Poulton's book a look, cos it has alot of useful things you need in the exam, but not to use it as a primary resource. I hope you got the point.

Danny boy

Unfortunately I failed with a 534

- the exam was harder than I expected as I don't feel that the MS Training Kit fully prepared me for it. I am now debating whether it would be worthwhile getting another resource to prepare myself for a 2nd attempt or to give up on it.

joehalford01

Congratz IT explorer, I'm studying for the 70-642 now (since I just finished Network+ I wanted to stay on the network stuff while it is fresh in my head before tackling 70-640.) So far I'm realizing there is a pretty big leap from comptia entry level info and higher level certs. Yikes.

Danny Boy, don't give up; grab some additional resources. I picked up Windows Server 2008R2 unleashed to review the topics from another perspective and it looks pretty comprehensive.

Danny boy

joehalford01 wrote: »

Congratz IT explorer, I'm studying for the 70-642 now (since I just finished Network+ I wanted to stay on the network stuff while it is fresh in my head before tackling 70-640.) So far I'm realizing there is a pretty big leap from comptia entry level info and higher level certs. Yikes.

Danny Boy, don't give up; grab some additional resources. I picked up Windows Server 2008R2 unleashed to review the topics from another perspective and it looks pretty comprehensive.

Thanks for the encouragement joehalford01, I'll be sure to get the book, even if I don't retake/ successfully pass the exam it will still be worthwhile to increase my knowledge.

Armann

Congrats

I'm studying for it now...

rphann

Congrats!!! Good luck with 70-642.