Prep guide for 70-649

Ginger

For those of you that are MCSE 2003 and looking at heading to MCITP on 2008 here is a nice little post that should help you and give you some better ideas about the exam.

The exam details are here

NullZer0

That'll come in handy over the next few weeks... once the MCSE is finished probably a good idea to hammer on through!

Edit: There are two exams required to upgrade right?

Ginger

This exam gives 3 MCTS certs as it covers 3 exams. And only counts when you have the MCSE 2003 certification.

To get the MCITP Enterprise Admin from MCSE requires 3 exams unless you have done the MCSE using Vista MCTS. If you havent you will need to do the Vista cert as well.

For MCITP Server Admin you can do 70-648 or 70-649 and exam 70-646. Using exam 70-648 gives you 2 MCTS certs and is valid for either MCSA or MCSE on 2003.

For MCITP Enterprise Admin quickest way is 70-649 and the 70-647

Here is a good guide on the paths from MCSA and MCSE to MCITP on Windows 2008

NullZer0

Again ... another good reason to take the 620 as elective I guess!

tk123

Cheers Ginger this will come in handy - i'm taking the exam on Monday week!

NullZer0

Let us know how you get on!

tk123

woot! Passed it - 940, 1000 & 910 - overall 910. It was a LOT easier than I expected - I think I could have scraped a pass with common sense and from doing the mcse - eg stuff about MS virtual machines you'd know from using vmware etc. The questions are a bit more to the point - no more you are woking in contoso.com etc just this is what you need to do - how do you do it. 70-646 is next I think.

Static M.e.

Congrats!

qwertz

Good work. Now post some questions+answers

tk123

Hehe thanks guys

qwertz wrote: »

Good work. Now post some questions+answers

Ah but the NDA!:rolleyes: it was pretty much the objectives. I can't really remember exact questions- I always seem to forget straight away!! Hopefully its ok to say this : stuff I remember - RDC, Web/ISS/PKI,NAP,AD/GPOs/RODCs virtual machine stuff and other general stuff that you have no business doing an exam if you don't know!:pac:

It's split into 3 exams with set time for each exam - once you finish the review you can't go back (like the design exams). I made a STUPID mistake when i was reading back over my answers for the last 'exam' and cleared one of my answers and only saw the red box on the review page as I clicked finish - doh! :eek:

For materials I used the Syngress book, some white papers and 3 virtual servers - 2 'full' and one core. Not really a fan of Syngress books(used a few chapters of the 70-293 one) - I find the chapters tend to drag on a bit compared to the MS books where they split it up into lessons but since there's no MS book Syngress was the only option.

qwertz

Thanks for the details. I will sit mine next month.

tech

well done on exam, I have 70-291 on Wed for my MCSA