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littlehoops

yes i have

mrmcmint

yup - booked on both on same day.
Problem is i have 291 booked 2 weeks before that... hmmmmmmmm

aaronchristenson

I have scheduled to take it as well. For now it is on Oct 3. I hope to move it to Oct 12 in a week or so. Prometric would not let me schedule out that far yet.

Piers

after prometric problems Tuesday, and maximum vouchers reached yesterday, I plugged in today for some reason and now I'm booked for the 14th

jamesp1983

im scheduled. have to rush my 647 studing now

Megadeth4168

I have registered to take both exams next week.

mrmcmint

Megadeth4168 wrote: »

I have registered to take both exams next week.

Next week? Best of luck to you!

Let us know how you get on!

tdean

gandalph wrote: »

has anyone registered for the beta 71-686: PRO: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Support Technician

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is it free?

i never took a beta test....

t3ch_guru

Tried to register on the phone, but it has exceeded.

Hyper-Me

686 here. See my other thread for some study materials.

qwertyiop

gandalph wrote: »

has anyone registered for the beta 71-686: PRO: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Support Technician

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You might want to change the title since 71-686 is actually the exam for the windows 7 desktop administrator, 71-685 is the windows 7 desktop support tech

t3ch_guru

Piers wrote: »

after prometric problems Tuesday, and maximum vouchers reached yesterday, I plugged in today for some reason and now I'm booked for the 14th

You think it is a possibility it might be available again?

NinjaBoy

Yep, I'm registered

-Ken

t3ch_guru

You just now registered?

tbgree00

I registered for it and it's scheduled for the 9th. I hope to give myself a little more time. I just started studying for the 621 so I have the All in One book for that. It seems semi relevant. I started creating a study guide and plan to make a deployment image with the new WAIK. Otherwise I am a little lost for what to study. There is a ton of stuff in the awesome resources thread though!

tomken

I signed up Tuesday and have it scheduled for Oct 15th!!!! Thanks for the study material links Hyper-Me!!!!!!

gandalph

qwertyiop wrote: »

You might want to change the title since 71-686 is actually the exam for the windows 7 desktop administrator, 71-685 is the windows 7 desktop support tech

I just cut and psted from the beta website blog

71-686: PRO: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Support Technician counts as credit towards the following certification(s).

· MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator, Windows 7

gandalph

tdean wrote: »

is it free?

i never took a beta test....

yes they are free however you dont get your result straight away. If you have a look at the link in the first post that blog lets you know about any that are available but you need to be quick as the slots are filled pretty quickly.

jamesp1983

have any of you checked out the windows 7 unleashed textbook?

BrandonMills

gandalph wrote: »

has anyone registered for the beta 71-686: PRO: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Support Technician

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Ugh. I tried to register today. I only found out about the beta exams yesterday while doing some research on Windows 7 exams.

Said both codes reached their maximum use. :{ Bummer, I really wanted to take both exams for free

BrandonMills

What is the 'best' way to get notified of beta microsoft exams? I'm a busy person, so checking forums constantly isn't really an option. Is there a mailing list I can get onto somehow?

Piers

BrandonMills wrote: »

What is the 'best' way to get notified of beta microsoft exams? I'm a busy person, so checking forums constantly isn't really an option. Is there a mailing list I can get onto somehow?

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Megadeth4168

BrandonMills wrote: »

What is the 'best' way to get notified of beta microsoft exams? I'm a busy person, so checking forums constantly isn't really an option. Is there a mailing list I can get onto somehow?

Subscribe to the following site.
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OK, so I took the 71-685 today. I did so under pretty limited study. I watched a few videos, and read up on some of the technology, all of which I located through the following thread.

71-686 Resources

I have to say that I found a good half of the exam to be pretty much "common sense". That is of course according to my opinion and experience.

Really, just go over the objectives. Know about Portable workstations, WWANS, WLANS, VPN's, Subnets. Read up on BitLocker and APPLocker. Read up on IE8 and new group policy options. Know your Event and Performance Monitors/Logs. Know how to troubleshoot problems with applications, boot up, deployment and hardware issues.

If you can (and I wish I did), play around with a Windows server 2008 environment that has Windows 7 clients connected as members of a domain. I think that would be a great help.

I never feel like I can give a good detailed description of what to study because I don't want to go over the line and violate the NDA. So, I apologize for the lackluster description.

Best of Luck to you all!

RobertKaucher

No, that was good information. Unfortunately I don't think the Desktop Admin test is going to be so easy... Seem pretty heavy on deploy tools. Has any one taken it yet?

Megadeth4168

RobertKaucher wrote: »

No, that was good information. Unfortunately I don't think the Desktop Admin test is going to be so easy... Seem pretty heavy on deploy tools. Has any one taken it yet?

I friend of mine took just before I took the 71-685. He said it was quite a bit more difficult than he expected.

For that exam, he recommends focusing a lot on new group policies, Image creation and deployment and Branch cache. Basically, again, if you have the time to go through the resources that Hyper-Me listed in 71-686 Resources thread, it sounds like you stand a decent chance of passing the exam.

mrmcmint

Thanks for the advice!
Good luck to all!

mrmcmint

How long roughly do you have to wait after sitting the exam to find out if you have passed anyway?

gomcse2002

mrmcmint wrote: »

How long roughly do you have to wait after sitting the exam to find out if you have passed anyway?

Around 6-8 weeks after the end of the beta exam period.

mrmcmint

ok thanks for that! longer wait than i thought

breaker

Megadeth4168 wrote: »

For that exam, he recommends focusing a lot on new group policies, Image creation and deployment and Branch cache. Basically, again, if you have the time to go through the resources that Hyper-Me listed in 71-686 Resources thread, it sounds like you stand a decent chance of passing the exam.

Much appreciated