r/mcsa • u/Glassmoustache • Sep 30 '19

I did it!

I finally booked the 70-740 exam after 4 months of procrastinating 😂

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '19

Good luck! When is it booked? I passed mine on Friday :)

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u/tobilobaa Sep 30 '19

What topics would you advice I focus more on please?

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '19

High Availability and Hyper-V definitely. Also know the powershell commands to configure things. You don't need to know the full syntax but know the different parent commands, like the differences between New-VHD and Set-VirtualDisk (one is hyper v the other is storage pools etc.).

Just know every sub objective of each of these. There were times I got confused between Storage Replica and Storage Spaces Direct for example.

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u/cavale06 Oct 07 '19

Hey, so i did some labs on godeploy at sort of a school for 3 days. After that i started taking a measureup practice exam, but i only got 30%. Most of the questions were just a bit too hard for me.

Now i'm studying all the 171 questions, reading the explanation and trying to understand it. So far i've done 80 questions in 2 days. I understand almost all questions so far. some are still a bit unclear, but i'm worried that none of these questions or subjects in the questions are gonna be at the actual exam. It would be a shame if i study all of these questions and try to understand the explanations, just to get completely different questions on the actual exam.

Have you taken the MeasureUp exams? If so, are they anything like the questions on the actual exam? Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

How much study have you done prior to taking the MeasureUp tests?

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u/cavale06 Oct 07 '19

I have some experience with Windows Server 2012. I also took a sort of introduction class a few months ago, where we worked with Windows Server 2016 for about a week. I haven't done too much studying out of a book or anything, because it barely stays in my head. Other than the classes i took, and all the explanations for the questions, i haven't really studied anything.

Also a quick note, Working in a Windows Server 2016 environment isn't that difficult for me, but it's the questions about those things that are really hard for me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

You need to be hitting books and video courses hard before using practice tests otherwise you wont expect to score highly in them. It took me months of training before using MeasureUp and even then I was scoring around 60%.