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Passed 70-640
Everlife
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Hi everyone,
After a lot of studying and labbing, I passed the 70-640 today with a 858/1000. Surprisingly, I nailed every single one of the ADCS questions.
I used the MS Press Training Kit, Transcender, and Technet for the areas which I felt the training kit did not sufficiently cover (ADCS, ADFS, ADRMS). I studied on an off for about four months. I used my normal technique when studying for an exam, which consists of reading the chapter, taking hand written notes, typing those notes up, and studying them each night. In addition, I used flash cards to help memorize commands and basic concepts.
For labbing I used VMWare Workstation with about 8 virtual servers and two clients broken into two different domains and multiple sites. I practiced configuring and maintaining ADCS over and over until I was familiar with the concepts and the menus. The Step-by-step guides on Technet are a life saver for helping to reinforce concepts and procedures.
My suggestions for the exam would be to lab like crazy and spend a lot of time on Technet. Make sure you are familiar with the Powershell cmdlets used in each role. You don't need to know every option, just be able to recognize the most important options and the cmdlet itself.
As was expected, I ran into a ton of AD CS and DNS questions. There were a few very obscure questions about ADRMS and ADFS that I knew from Technet.
I've placed PDF versions of my notes in my public DropBox folder (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/31694156/70-640%20Notes.zip). Feel free to use them for your own studies.
Thanks again to Techexams community! Now on to to 70-642
After a lot of studying and labbing, I passed the 70-640 today with a 858/1000. Surprisingly, I nailed every single one of the ADCS questions.
I used the MS Press Training Kit, Transcender, and Technet for the areas which I felt the training kit did not sufficiently cover (ADCS, ADFS, ADRMS). I studied on an off for about four months. I used my normal technique when studying for an exam, which consists of reading the chapter, taking hand written notes, typing those notes up, and studying them each night. In addition, I used flash cards to help memorize commands and basic concepts.
For labbing I used VMWare Workstation with about 8 virtual servers and two clients broken into two different domains and multiple sites. I practiced configuring and maintaining ADCS over and over until I was familiar with the concepts and the menus. The Step-by-step guides on Technet are a life saver for helping to reinforce concepts and procedures.
My suggestions for the exam would be to lab like crazy and spend a lot of time on Technet. Make sure you are familiar with the Powershell cmdlets used in each role. You don't need to know every option, just be able to recognize the most important options and the cmdlet itself.
As was expected, I ran into a ton of AD CS and DNS questions. There were a few very obscure questions about ADRMS and ADFS that I knew from Technet.
I've placed PDF versions of my notes in my public DropBox folder (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/31694156/70-640%20Notes.zip). Feel free to use them for your own studies.
Thanks again to Techexams community! Now on to to 70-642
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Optionspizzaboy Member Posts: 244 ■■■□□□□□□□Congrats on the exam, and the score. And thanks for the notes.God deserves my best
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OptionsDakinggamer87 Member Posts: 4,016 ■■■■■■■■□□Congrats on pass!!*Associate's of Applied Sciences degree in Information Technology-Network Systems Administration
*Bachelor's of Science: Information Technology - Security, Master's of Science: Information Technology - Management
Matthew 6:33 - "Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need."
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OptionsMoobs09 Registered Users Posts: 4 ■□□□□□□□□□Cheers for the notes!... and Well done on the pass!
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Optionscruwl Member Posts: 341 ■■□□□□□□□□Grats on the pass and thanks for the notes, those will come in handy
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Optionskj0 Member Posts: 767Awesome timing. Thanks for the Notes, and congrats on the pass. Is it just another cert, or is this something you will be using at your work place?
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Optionsjdancer Member Posts: 482 ■■■■□□□□□□Thanks for the 70-640 notes. Looking forward to the 70-642 notes.
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OptionsEverlife Member Posts: 253 ■■■□□□□□□□Thanks everyone! I hope the notes come in handy.Awesome timing. Thanks for the Notes, and congrats on the pass. Is it just another cert, or is this something you will be using at your work place?
I've actually be transitioning our company from an SBS 2003 to a Server 2008R2/Exchange 2010 environment, so I was utilizing the concepts and procedures pretty regularly. -
OptionsUncle_Dave Registered Users Posts: 6 ■□□□□□□□□□Congrats on your passing score, wishing you the best and all the success in your career.
Keep it up, way 2 go. -
Optionsdavipton Registered Users Posts: 1 ■□□□□□□□□□I have been studying 70-640 for the past year on and off. These will be very hand for a catchup and consolidation.
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OptionsDevilry Member Posts: 668Congrats on the pass! I am working on this one now, thanks for the notes!
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OptionsLunchbocks Member Posts: 319 ■■■■□□□□□□Congrats and thanks for the notes. I am planning to test in 4 weeks.
One question; did you use Transcender to help study, or just as a practice exam?Degree: Liberty University - B.S Computer Science (In Progress)
Current Certs: CCENT | MCTS | Network+
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OptionsEverlife Member Posts: 253 ■■■□□□□□□□Lunchbocks wrote: »Congrats and thanks for the notes. I am planning to test in 4 weeks.
One question; did you use Transcender to help study, or just as a practice exam?
Thanks!
I guess I used it for both. I took it once when I completed the book to get an idea of what areas I was weak in. After focusing on those areas, I re-took it and repeated the same process until I felt I was ready for the real exam. If I encountered a topic that wasn't in the MS Press book (and there were quite a few) I would utilize TechNet to review that topic.
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OptionsLunchbocks Member Posts: 319 ■■■■□□□□□□Perfect, thank you very much!Degree: Liberty University - B.S Computer Science (In Progress)
Current Certs: CCENT | MCTS | Network+
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Options4_lom Member Posts: 485Congrats!Goals for 2018: MCSA: Cloud Platform, AWS Solutions Architect, MCSA : Server 2016, MCSE: Messaging
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Optionswhatthehell Member Posts: 920Congratz on the pass and thanks very much for the notes!!2017 Goals:
[ ] Security + [ ] 74-409 [ ] CEH
Future Goals:
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OptionsCEH2B Registered Users Posts: 2 ■□□□□□□□□□Congrats on your pass. Do you mind sharing more details on your lab set up. I have been trying to set up a lab but not much info around.
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OptionsEverlife Member Posts: 253 ■■■□□□□□□□Congrats on your pass. Do you mind sharing more details on your lab set up. I have been trying to set up a lab but not much info around.
Sure! I used VMWare Workstation on a system with 12GB of RAM. Each virtual machine had one NIC connected to the relevant LAN segment, unless otherwise noted below. My setup was as follows:
SERVER01 (CONTOSO.LOCAL - SITE1) - 1GB; 3 NICS (1x bridged, 2x LAN segment); DC, DNS, RRAS
SERVER02 (CONTOSO.LOCAL - SITE1) - 512MB; Standalone Root CA
SERVER03 (CONTOSO.LOCAL - SITE1) - 2GB; Enterprise CA, NDES, CES, Online Responder
SERVER04 (CONTOSO.LOCAL - SITE2) - 1GB; RODC
CLIENT01 (CONTOSO.LOCAL - SITE2) - 1GB; Windows 7 client
SERVER05 (FABRIKAM.LOCAL) - 1GB; 2 NICS (2x LAN Segment); DC, DNS, RRAS
SERVER06 (ACCT.FABRIKAM.LOCAL) - 1GB; 2 NICS (2x LAN Segment); DC, DNS
CLIENT02 (ACCT.FABRIKAM.LOCAL) - 1GB;Windows 7 client
I was able to play with close to all of the concepts with this setup. If you have any further questions, let me know and I'd be happy to provide you with further information. -
OptionsSaeedonWeb Member Posts: 18 ■□□□□□□□□□Congrats on passing the exam. Thanks for the notes. I am planning on taking this exam myself.
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OptionsLucas21 Member Posts: 46 ■■□□□□□□□□Congrats on the pass. Thanks for the notes and details regarding your lab setup.
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OptionsLucas21 Member Posts: 46 ■■□□□□□□□□That's good. Will you be sharing your notes on that as well?
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Optionstprice5 Member Posts: 770Very cool. Just booked mine for August 16th.Certification To-Do: CEH [ ], CHFI [ ], NCSA [ ], E10-001 [ ], 70-413 [ ], 70-414 [ ]
WGU MSISA
Start Date: 10/01/2014 | Complete Date: ASAP
All Courses: LOT2, LYT2 , UVC2, ORA1, VUT2, VLT2 , FNV2 , TFT2 , JIT2 , FMV2, FXT2 , LQT2 -
OptionsEverlife Member Posts: 253 ■■■□□□□□□□Good luck tprice5!That's good. Will you be sharing your notes on that as well?
Yes I will be sharing my notes from each exam I take from this point forward. -
OptionsEverlife Member Posts: 253 ■■■□□□□□□□Appreciate your kindness Everlife.
Anytime! I'm glad to help a community that has given me so much over the years. -
Optionsbadboyeee Member Posts: 348congratz! how long did you study for ? and how hard did you feel the exam was?2011 Certification Plans so far:
[Cisco: CCENT (ICND1)-> CCNA (ICND2)]
[MS: MCP-> MCDST-> MCTS / MCITP:ESDT7-> MCITP:EDA7]
Class taking:
[Cisco NetAcademy - Network Fundamentals (35%)]
Video currently watching:
[CBT Nuggets - CCENT w/ Jeremy (50%)]
[CBT Nuggets - 20-721 (40%)