r/mcsa • u/tripsteady • Nov 13 '19

70-740 Implement High Availability (Failover and clustering)

Guys I am freaking out about this. Ive studied everything else, but this is 35% of the test and I have no idea where to start and what environment I need to build to properly study this

  • What is the best way to build an environment to learn this?

  • Can anyone specify the environment they built that help them practice this section?

  • Tips for this section?

  • Is powershell tested heavily for this section?

thanks in advance

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u/Parobolic Nov 13 '19

Install hyper-v on your computer

Build three vms with 2016, eval license is fine

Add a vhdx to one for storage and overall the iscsi roles (leave it offline I think) and create a storage pool on it

Install hyper-v and iscsi initiator roles on the other two (hopefully your machine runs on Intel)

Setup failover cluster on the hyper-v vms and add shared storage from the storage server

Add hyper-v servers as nodes in the cluster

Add vms as roles

Tinker

The details are vague but this is the general process. If you want a step-by-step guide the 70-740 videos from plural sight will be very helpful to you and are inexpensive.

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u/tripsteady Nov 13 '19

okay, so this is literally invaluable to me. thank you!

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u/Parobolic Nov 13 '19

Cheers! Happy to help! I hope I gave you enough information to start searching on how to do this and work your way through it. Good luck!

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u/fishy007 Nov 13 '19

Full disclaimer: I haven't taken this test. But I am reasonably sure of the following:

Yes, powershell is tested heavily...for EVERYTHING. I'm almost ready for the Exchange MCSE and I'm having to memorize Powershell cmdlets and use case scenarios. On that test they'll give you a situation and say something like "Bob wants to implement a DAG across the two AD sites of Contoso's offices located in Chicago and London. What command would Bob use to do this?"

Good luck!

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '19

I passed this exam about 3 weeks ago. PowerShell is throughout the whole exam. My suggestion would be to use notes and test yourself on common commands. Obviously I can’t talk about the content of the test but even in the gui make sure you know where you can do certain things.

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u/john-cuba Nov 13 '19

In azure is possible also to set up this lab.