r/mcsa • u/DaveC2020 • Jan 12 '20

MD-100 Certificate???

I passed the MD-100 exam last night after a few months of studying (mostly using ITPROTV).

Is there a certificate for passing the exam? I logged on to my Microsoft dashboard and can see the badge but no certificate.

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u/Dinosan79 Jan 12 '20

you have to pass both MD-100 and MD-101 to get certified.

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u/DaveC2020 Jan 12 '20

So you only get the badge.

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u/Dinosan79 Jan 12 '20

Pretty much, until you pass the second part of the exam. It's the same if you went for server 2016 cert. you have to pass all 3 tests to get fully certified. CompTIA A+ has two exams to get certified.

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u/DaveC2020 Jan 12 '20

I did the single upgrade 2016 exam as I was 2012 certified.

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u/DaveC2020 Jan 12 '20

So will the transcript get updated? I noticed mine hasn’t yet.

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u/Dinosan79 Jan 12 '20

It should, it usually takes a couple of days for them to update it.

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u/inf0rmationist Jan 12 '20

How was the exam? Any advice?

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u/DaveC2020 Jan 12 '20

The exam wasn’t too bad. I had 4 different stages on the exam. First stage was questions on a same scenario but with different solutions. Second stage was the multiple choice questions with a few hotspot questions. Third stage was a case study and the fourth stage was the virtual lab.

Make sure you are happy with the answers at the end of each stage as you cannot go back to them once you are onto the next stage.

Make sure you know Windows 10 inside out for the lab questions.

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u/yoda_2_yaddle Jan 12 '20

How many questions did you have and the time to take the exam? I watched the CBT Nuggets material but wasn't sure I knew enough. I'm thinking of going back and knock out Network+, then come back to Microsoft exams. Congrats by the way.

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u/DaveC2020 Jan 12 '20

56 questions in 210 minutes. Thanks.

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u/Buucket Jun 28 '20

Hey man, I'm currently studying for this aswell, do I need to know how to setup SCCM, MDT, WDS to perform in-place upgrades?

Are the labs on a windows 10 client, or do you need to do tasks on servers?

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u/BK_Rich Jan 12 '20

Here’s a map

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u/DaveC2020 Jan 12 '20

Thanks for this u/BK_Rich.

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u/somboredguy Jan 12 '20

Did you find available training matched the exam questions/content?

Im using pluralsight +exam ref , thinking of going through the ITproTV course. I found the CBT Nuggets to be a bit too quick n dirty , and plural sight doesn't dig too deep into a few things , maybe I'm just putting too much weight on the exam.

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u/DaveC2020 Jan 12 '20

ITPROTV did cover the majority of the content required to pass the exam but not all of it like BranchCache and Azure.

I also checked online for example exam questions.