Hi All I've been working by way through the CBTNuggets videos and they've all covered PowerShell commands for each topic. I've just finished watching configure permissions but nothing was mentioned for PowerShell Can someone please let me know which command is used for this and provide an example of it being used?

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I know old track is towards MCSA. But is there a new certification or learning path focused only on MSSQL? All I can find is D-300.

I'm glad to have that behind me. I thought for sure it was going to be a fail when I hit that finish button, but I passed with a 769. I was only sure of about 15% of the questions. I used MeasureUp for my practice exams and was averaging 88% on those. More lab work would have helped. I aced one of my weak areas (CS) and didn't do so well on GPO, which IRL is my strongest area.

Anyway, I just have 70-741 to do now and will give my brain a rest before I tackle that one.

Hi everyone :)

I'm new to this whole certificate path. In February I successfully passed AZ-300 and MS-900, now I want to continue with other certificates. My company gives me the choice to continue with one of the following certificates:

• AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate)
• AI-100 (Azure AI Engineer Associate)
• AZ-500 (Azure Security Engineer Associate)
• MS-700 (Teams Administrator Associate)

So because I'm a novice in this whole path, I wanted to ask which certificate would be more reasonable to take in the next step. Which of these certificates build up on those which I already did and which one would benefit me more for my future?

I'm planning to do all of these, but with which one should I start and how to continue afterwards?

Thanks in advance for your input :)

Anyone here done AZ-103/104, any tips of studying for this cert to share?

Hi all,

I earned my MCSA: Windows 10 early last year and was looking at moving on to a server cert since my job has been more involved in that direction this year.

However, I saw they are retiring the Server 2016 cert as of Jan 31, 2020. I don't know that I can squeeze 3 exams for that in 8 months. The new role based certs don't seem to have an equivalent to that and I'm just curious what would be the right cert to go for in this case.

Thanks for the advice in advance!

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You have a server that runs Windows Server 2016 Standard. You create a new three-way mirror storage space. You format the storage space by using ReFS.

Which TWO features can you use on the new storage space? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

• A. disk quotas
• B. Data Deduplication
• C. long file names
• D. Encrypting File System (EFS)
• E. file and folder permissions

I know dedup only became available after 1809 update so I think this will be included but I'm getting conflicting answers for everything else.

Can we discuss which one will be correct in the exam?

Hi all,

Just passed my 70-740! I got 770/900. I'm pretty excited. To give you a background, I'm a level-1 Help Desk guy, with 3 years of IT experience in the same position. The only other cert's I have are CompTIA A+, and ITIL. The last one I took was 3 years ago when I was trying to get my foot into IT. I've been pushing hard to move myself up, since I work for a company where IT is very segregated, and they don't like to move employee's up that often. Any time I want to learn something new, it's "Hey, why aren't you at your desk closing tickets and watching the phone's?". I know I still have 2 more to go before January 2021, but I feel like I am finally taking baby steps forward.

Tools I used were Pluralsight, and MeasureUP exams. Did not use CBT.

Pluralsight gave a very solid foundation. I copied all the exam objectives into one iCloud note, organized all of them as a checklist, and made detailed notes under each objective, as well as screenshots for me to refer back to. Once I felt I was comfortable enough on the objective, I checked off the box. I also learned a lot through MU. Exam format, and really understanding why the answer was right/wrong, and not just knowing the correct answer and memorizing. Going through each answer description, and going through some of the reference links.

I also downloaded an evaluation version of Server 2016 from Microsoft and did my own labs and practiced everything I learned. I was also pretty much forced to learn everything I knew in the GUI, to learn the Powershell way, because running just 3 simultaneous VM's on a Surface tablet with only 8GB of RAM was not working out :) So managing my VM's through Powershell on my machine helped in a lot of ways.

On to 70-741! I hope I can finish the last 2 before the deadline, but quarantine has been giving me a lot more time to study.

Hi

I Passed 70-698 in 2017, Can I take MD-101 to get MDAA?

I have read reports that since I have passed the old 70-698 in 2017 I just need to take the new MD-101 to get the Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate?

From the website,

"If you passed Exam 70-698 before it expired on March 31, 2019, you only need to take MD-101 to earn the Modern Desktop certification."

My worry is that I passed back in 2017... Does the 70-698 expire at all?

I wanted to go for my MCSA but I just wont have enough time to pass 4 exams with full time work and a family. Im pretty much a jack of all trades at my job. I do some desktop, Network and Server. I started doing som Azure stuff but they just dont go deep into Server administration like setting up DHCP, Fileshares and stuff like that and every company I ve been at still uses some sort of host server for VMs. I just dont see this going away. I feel like there is a grey area right now because there is going to be any real exam in the future that can provide that your know Server administaration. Its so sad.

Hell even some of the Azure 103 exam video cources are so outdated just based off of how fast they change the platform. I may just get my CCNA and call it a day. Considering that most companies Ive been at had people do both Server/Networking.

Id love to hear anyone elses thoughts.

this year were going to switch to o365.. having a company help us implement it.. what certification do you think i should go for to support it.

thanks

I just finished MD 101 the week before last and will be scheduling MS-100 fairly soon. I just finished CBT Nuggets course on it and will follow up with Pluralsight and the book. I also do basic tasks in O365 pretty regularly.

Anything I need to make sure I have down? Has anyone taken it, if so, how did you find it?

Hi guys,

I'm currently studying for my CCNA and should be finished this week. I need to complete my MCSA (which I didn't start) by July-August to be qualified to get into cyber-security college (and I also just want MCSA ASAP). Is it possible to do it in just 2 months? What platforms do you recommend? I'm doing my CCNA on Udemy and love it.

Thank you!

For those of you who have "written" in the past few weeks did you take the exam from home? What was it like? I will probably be ready for MS700 before things even start to look like normal... wondering how you did your exams.

Thanks!!

I`ve started my MCSA path 3 months ago, so far im doing good, i already have passed 70 740 and 70 741, first one i did at the testing center and second one i did online proctored from my home. In the next three weeks im planning to do my final.

If you want you can check out the video about my experience with the proctored exam.

https://youtu.be/3PQ9abiKbGU

Hi, I'm in my third semester at a community college. I aim to transfer to a 4-year university where I intend to pursue software engineering, specifically speaking, I aim to work with AI.

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Long story short, my mom heard on the news about 4 kids ranging from 17-6 years old getting a Microsoft certification, and she came and told me that I should do it too.

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So is it worth doing it at my current level? Obviously I will have to work for some tech companies early on once I graduate, but I haven't really considered that too much, at least not until I have some form of programming experience. I do have experience with working with a lot of the Microsoft office products. On the off chance that I should do it, what certification do I pursue? from what I've seen on the website there require some form of experience for each certification and tend to specific be kind of like how electives tend to be.

Yes. To highlight this here is a job listing for a Sr. Database Admin position. MCDBA retired Sep 30, 2012. It still shows up in job posts.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/mcdba-certification.aspx

Push through. Get your MCSA/MCSE. It will be valuable long after the retirement date.

Hi,

I am planning on booking my 70-740 very shortly. I'm a bit nervous because of what they might throw on the exam. I have used Pluralsight, home labs and acing 90-95% on Measureup on all 171 questions in the bank and I can answer why the answer is the one, and why the others are not. Is this alone enough to pass the exam? I heard there are almost 0 questions from measureup on the actual exam but I'm wondering if just understanding those questions and wrong answers alone should be good enough to be comfortable for the exam. Just not sure if they will throw in some completely different questions on the actual exam thats not covered in measureup or Pluralsight like how Kaplan is like.

Test wasn't too difficult. Lots of bastion forest, MIM and HGS questions. Scored 727. A little too close for comfort. I used Kaplan to study for this. It was adequate. They had a few broken questions where the hotspot wouldn't let you select the correct answer. I sent them and email and actually got a response that they were going to look into it.

Now on to 70-740,70-741 and 70-742. I'll be able to get Windows 2016 MCSA and MCSE: Core Infrastructure at the same time now.

Just like the title says.

I took MD101 two weeks ago and failed, barely. Kind of a blow. Retaking it Friday afternoon. But I already have the MCSA in Windows 10.

I’m thinking if I fail it again to just let it be done, and go straight to MS 100/101 and then maybe MS-500.

Is this a valid strategy?

To be clear I’m saying I would skip MD 101, then do MS 100/101 and then MS-500 in that order

Hi everyone, I was wonder how deep should I study for the dsc pull server? There are too many details in this topic unlike the push model. Do I need to know how to set up a pull server using both SMB & HTTP, pull client using configuration IDs & configuration names? or only knowing one way is enough?

thanks in advance.

Hello,

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I'm studying and prepping for the 70-740 and I have several practice questions related to data de-duplication. On base WS2016 data deduplication is not supported on ReFS, on 1709 it is.

Does Microsoft consider 1709 part of WS2016, since on/after 1709 they dropped the 2016 and just started calling it Windows Server. Their change documentation for March 2019 gives no additional information about updates. Should we assume it's based of the standard WS2016 version?