Transcript Microsoft Certification Exam Coaching Session: 70-360

Microsoft Certification
Exam Coaching
Session: 70-630
MCTS: Microsoft
Office SharePoint
Server
Presenter: Mick Badran
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
– 14+ yrs
MCSE, MCSD, MVP, Microsoft
Virtual TS, CSD Advisor….
Trainer – 50%, Consultant – 50%
Started with SharePoint in 2000
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Agenda for tonight
General Study
and Exam Tips
70-630 Cram for
Exam
Study and Pass
your exams!
Mick’s Study Tips
General Tips – Getting Registered
Set a date
Flips a mental switch
No longer “someday”
Forces study time and focus
Make a study plan
Hours per day
Practice questions per day
General Tips - Studying
Study Recommendations
Real-world experience in field
Hands-on experience in lab/virtual machine
Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) - ILT
Online course (MODL)
Microsoft E-learning
Microsoft Press
Practice Questions – MeasureUp or SelfTest
**Focus on How to**
General Tips – Exam Information
Exam Objectives: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70630.mspx
Passing score is approximately 700 or 70%
51 questions – short questions, you either know or not.
Approximately 110 minutes
Types of questions you’ll encounter
Mostly multiple choice
No penalty for guessing; partial credit for some
Learn the Site Templates, Records Center and How
To. E.g. How to Search for broken site links.
Mick’s General exam pattern
Don’t be afraid to run through the questions as
many times as you need e.g. 5, 6 or 7 times.
On the first ‘pass’ only answer questions that:
You *know* 100%
Are short and easy to answer
Leave long winded questions till 2nd pass.
First pass is to get a ‘feel’ for the questions
By the end of the first pass, all the 100% ones
are answered and you’re not stressing on
time/question constraints.
General Tips - Taking Exam (cont.)
Budget time if necessary - halfway check
Checkboxes for Comment, Review
Always Review any questions in doubt!
Sometimes later exam questions can jog memory
When in doubt, always stick with first answer
Comments are read, be nice!
Interface is 640x480
For worldwide exam compatibility
Can be frustrating for larger questions
General Tips – Mick’s Special Tips
Read Answers first!
Prime your brain - the Reticular Activating Cortex
Impress friends with phrases like “Reticular Activating
Cortex”
Do not over analyse; e.g Permissions
The Microsoft Exam Universe
Think “what is the official Microsoft answer?”
Think “what if the world had only MS products?”
No 3rd party products on exam – unlike a .NET one I did 
Time for SharePoint
70-630 Core Content!
SharePoint - Major Topics
• Farm provisioning, quiesce
farms, servers and forms.
• Usage Logs
• Sites and Broken links
• SSP
• Search + Alerts
• Indexing and refreshing
indexes.
• InfoPath forms and data
connections
• Content Types + Metadata
• Site Templates – Record
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Center, Report Center,
Document Center
Site Actions Menu
CMS Assessment tool
Zones and Alternate Access
Mappings
Stsadm – installfeature
command
Farm Provisioning
What screen is seen straight after install?
What immediate steps do we need to do?
What are the main farm components?
Usage Logs
What do we get?
How do we turn them on?
Where do we see them?
Sites, Site Directory + Broken Links
Site, Subsites and Managed Paths
Purpose of Site Directory – explore this
Broken Links – how to search + fix
SSP
The purpose of a SSP
What is contained within an SSP
Major SSP Components
Relationship to MySite(s) + Other.
Search + Alerts
Search Setup
Crawled Properties
Turning off/on Alerting of Users
AD Mapped properties
Managed Properties
Indexing of Content and Refreshing Indexes
Types of Indexes
Content Types and Metadata
What are Content Types?
The Purpose of them?
Visibility of Content Types
Working with Content Types
Exposing Content Types
InfoPath Forms + Data Connection Libraries
Setting up Forms Services
Creating and Publishing an InfoPath Form
Managing Forms
Document/Form Library Settings
Excel Services
Setting up Excel Services
Provisioning Report Libraries
Publishing Excel Services
Viewing Web based Excel Services
Site Templates
Know the different Site Templates – mainly
Enterprise ones
Report Center
Document Center
Record Center
Creating each of these sites
Activation of Features
Site Actions Menu
When do/don’t we see Site Actions Menu
Site Actions Menu for Team Site
Site Actions Menu for Publishing Site
CMS Assessment Tool
Used to assess and produce a report on the
content stored in MCMS pre migration.
Size, #of resources, where etc.
“How bigger job is this?”
Downloadable from the Web
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.as
px?familyid=360d0e83-fa70-4c24-bcd6426cafbcc627&displaylang=en
Zones and Alternate Access Mappings
What are Alternate Access Mappings
Steps to set this up
Zones?
Using Different Authentication Providers
StsAdm Commands
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Stsadm –o installfeature…
Stsadm –o activatefeature…
Stsadm –o addsolution….
Stsadm –o deploysolution…
What is a solution?
Couple of Practice
Questions
Practice Question
Actual practice test question courtesy of Pass-Guaranteed
Practice Question
Actual practice test question courtesy of Pass-Guaranteed
We made it!
29
Q+A time!
Presenter:
Mick Badran - MVP
Breeze Training
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