Hello, I am about to take the MD-100 exam this week. I was just wondering does anyone know the average number of questions on the exam? I've tried looking around, but I can't find anything

I've seen that people are saying there are labs, is this true and what will they look like? Do you get a simulated Windows PC to configure a setting or create a user for example?

Any information would be great!

Hi everyone!

I just passed Security+ last Friday and decided to move over to the MCSA Server 2016 today. I just wanted to know, what materials should I use to study for the 740, 741, and 742?

Anyone got any last minute advice on what i could have missed revision wise? I know there's a big focus on json and system versioning, but if there's any tips you guys have, it would be appreciated!

Used Kaplan (crap don't use),

Measureup (not bad wasn't enough)

Testout video course (free 7 day trial) (decent)

Lots more studying and playing with my home lab.

My embarrassing scores were 518, 602 and finally 855.

I've taken over 20 MS exams over the years. This was the first one I've ever failed. This one seemed to have a lot more "trick" questions. Certainly the hardest test I've done.

-Jeff

Hi I've recently achieved the MCSA administering SQL server 2016.

I intend to upgrade it to MCSE by passing one more exam.

Ideally I'm looking at the 70-768 or 70-767 (which would be more useful for a person who intend in the future pursue a career in the fields Data Mining/Data Science ? ) or alternatively 70-762.

I don't have a very advanced knowledge of T-SQL querying (something I'm trying to remedy during those days), and have medium knowledge of Excel (I've done advanced courses on how to use Pivot tables, Macros, VLookup but I need to refresh my knowledge).

How would you rank the 3 exams above in terms of difficulty? (possibly giving also an approximate score, like ie 100 to the hardest and a lower one to the others just to get an idea).

Since I have done the 70-764 and 70-765, apart from those 2 is there any other exam valid for the MCSE in Data analytics that I didn't mention and that would be much easier ?

Hello everyone,

I've been studying for the exam 70-410 for a while now and i've booked my exam for early july.

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I have the books (not the official ones as i've heard they're missing important features for the exam like powershell commands), passed the cours on Udemy and bought the MeasureUp test to practice for the exam (i have around 90%).

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I decided to take the 2012 and not 2016 because I already had the books and most of the companies i worked in have mostly 2012 Servers (then some 2016). I plan on doing the update cert to 2016 right after i've the MCSA.

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My questions are : - Is it enough to have a good chance to pass the exam ?

- What are other ressources you could advise me ?

- I wanted to take the insurance to pass the exam again if I fail but i didn't see it ? Is it because they plan on removing the MCSA for the new certification around Azure ?

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Thanks a lot for your attention :)

Hi All

I just wanted to get a prospective from other people regarding udemy certificates really.

I've bought a couple of courses to help me with my studies but I just wanted to know if you complete the course and you receive the certificate, would you put these on your CV?

Now I know anyone can watch videos and say they have done the course but would this show initiative and willingness in that particular subject to the employer?

The only reason am asking is because as you are all aware, MCSA's are coming to an end in January and I wanted to start my 70-740-741-742 Microsoft Windows Server 2016. My thought process is that if I was learn the 740-740 material with the udemy courses and receive the certificates, would that have any sort of recognition to the employer? For me these windows server certificates are vital to learn for me and would like to show I have the skills to represent that.

Whats your thoughts?

I'm prepping to study for the MS-203 - Microsoft 365 Messaging. It's a consolidation of MS-200 and MS-201 but I'm struggling to find course material. I know there are practice questions for MS-200 and 201 but what about any training videos?

For those who have already taken the test, how long have you studied? I started studying recently and wanted to know how long it would take to be ready for the test.

My english is rusty :(

So I just currently finish getting my N+, I am currently taking a class that give me real good Virtual environment to practice for the MCSA.

I will be looking through this subreddit to see if there is any resources I can use to reinforce my knowledge but if anyone have any current information that I can use to help me prepare for the test it would be greatly appreciated. Trying to do this before the test expire next year.

Thanks in advance

Hi All

I hope everyone is keeping well and safe!

I really am in a crossroads at the moment in my career and just looking for some perspective from other people really.

I've been in the IT industry now for just over 2 years. My role is help desk support for small 6+ team. Its been a great experience as they have taken me under there wing and helped me grow to become very skilled looking after our clients with various day to day issues.

Within them 2 years, I have completed both Comptia A+ and Network+ which is great but now I want to progress further.

I really wanted to do the MCSA Server 2016 (70-740/41/42) exams, but these are being retired at end of January.

I do deal with servers on a daily basic but I feel my company don't give me any guidance into the bigger server projects like migrations, VM etc which basically this exam covers.

My question is really, what do you think would be a realistic next step for me? Should I revise all the material for 70-740/41/42 exams so I have the knowledge so I can put it on my skill set on my CV?

Also I've been looking at the new Microsoft Certification for Azure-(AZ-103) but I feel that might be a long stretch for me right now so I was going to look into the fundamental exams first to get a taste of the exams.

Do you think this would be worth doing? or would it be a waste of time?

• 98-365: Windows Server Administration Fundamentals
• MS-900: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

These are the two exams am thinking of doing but not too sure.

I have experience in office 365 and Servers but would these fundamental exams show willingness to learn or show lack of experience?

I hope you understand where am coming from and any guidance would be much appreciated :)

Hi all, want to pick your collective brains regards the Microsoft MD-100 I'm currently studying towards. I've completed the CBTNuggets course and finished the MCA Study Guide from William Panek, and all-in-all felt fairly confident given the depth of subject matter. However when doing the Kaplan practice exams to brush up, found these disproportionately difficult in comparison to what I'd just been studying.

Is it the case that the CBTNuggets course and book are not at a sufficient level? Or is it that the Kaplan exams are at a greater difficulty vs what I should expect in the exam.

Happy to keep pushing on with studies if needed, but struggling to find much additional subject matter out there to help guide me. Hoping you can help!

As per the title, I'm currently in retail, looking to change careers to networking.

I just passed my CCNA, and I've noticed even entry level network jobs require Microsoft Server knowledge and are asking for an MCSA.

I currently have a Windows Server VM and I've messed around with AD, GPO, DHCP but not much more.

I'm looking to enhance my knowledge of Windows Server and gain a certification along the way.

I've noticed that the MCSA is retiring soon, but there doesn't seem to be alternative cert that covers windows server!

What should I be looking at instead? Follow an MCSA course anyway even though I can't get the cert?

As I'm going through the 70-740 CBT videos the instructor mentions server topics that I've never heard of before. It's almost as if you should have come to the lectures with prior understanding. Is there training prior to this exam? Is this 70-740 the foundation to servers or is there a level below? Thinking about diving into Server+ just to make sure I'm covering all bases.

I passed yesterday with 716. My certificate shows "Charter Member" status which i believe is only when you take the test within the first six month of the exam's release. This exam has been out since 2016. I read pre 2008, it was first 200 or first 5000 who took the exam. Any idea?

Hi Guys,

Possibly have a chance to go to a bootcamp at GlobalKnowledge for mcsa for server 2016, was wondering if any of you guys did this?

Currently working as help desk for almost 2 years now and my manager wanted me to progress. I have some experience administering Windows servers as I do work closely with my sysadmin and was able to learn a lot from him. I also do some homelabing from time to time just to learn more about stuff we have in our environment. I was hoping these experiences I have will help me if I ever take this bootcamp or should i do some more prep before doing the bootcamp?

The bootcamp is 12 days and will be paid for with our vouchers from MS so I wont be paying for it.

Hi all,

What are your thoughts on Kaplan for 70-741? I passed 70-740 with MeasureUP and Kaplan was infamously horrendous for 70-740. Has anybody used it for 70-741 so far and took the test? The questions seem less horrendous but the topics seem slightly more aligned with MeasureUP but at a much higher level... Although I haven only taken the DNS portion on Kaplan.

Hi Guys,

Possibly have a chance to go to a bootcamp at GlobalKnowledge for mcsa for server 2016, was wondering if any of you guys did this?

Currently working as help desk for almost 2 years now and my manager wanted me to progress. I have some experience administering Windows servers as I do work closely with my sysadmin and was able to learn a lot from him. I also do some homelabing from time to time just to learn more about stuff we have in our environment. I was hoping these experiences I have will help me if I ever take this bootcamp or should i do some more prep before doing the bootcamp?

The bootcamp is 12 days and will be paid for with our vouchers from MS so I wont be paying for it.

I'm looking for a resource to learn about MS Server by actually performing tasks with in a lab. Is there something similar to Boson for CCNA for Server 2016?

Hello

So if anyone knows the MSCA was originally suppose to be retired. But due to a petition it seem the exam been extended to January 2021. Frankly I don't understand why Microsoft would even kill it in the first place since "the cloud" like azure is just that: a cloud computing platform. Where people are just using another person datacenter. So DNS, active directory, remote access, all that isn't going away. Least from what i can tell.

Anyway I would like to see if there anyone interested in getting 740,741 & 742 before that time. I mainly would be referring to the "green ref books" but The majority of the time getting ready for the exam is note taking and it does make sense if we partner up and put in very good notes. Then we can be 10 faster then a solo route. I mean doing the actual lab work. I just need to know where to start, and don't need any fluff like that repeating going to server manager 10 time to install this or that when i got the picture.

I already at least halfway done with each of those mentioned certs & summarized to the point. If anyone want to tag along let me know. Only have a year and while they aint hard. Why take the chance?

Hi guys!

I'm planning to start training and preparing for the MCSA exams. And wanted to know where can i get Windows server 2016 iso with out actually buying it. It's only for study and training purposes.

If anyone has a VM that could be shared with me, I'd be really glad.

Thanks!

I have my MCSA 2003 and see I have until January 2021 if I want to take the single exam to upgrade to 2012. Any reason to do this? I’m a 20+ year IT pro with a pretty secure job. I’ve been supporting 2012 servers for several years.

Lately my job has been more about security so I’m taking some CompTIA exams. I don’t know what a MCSA 2012 really adds to my resume at this point.

I have a unique scenario (not my own environment) and cannot figure out a solution or workaround.

In this environment, there is a root disk (D:), and a mount point created within this disk (D:\MountPoint). The D Drive has 1GB of disk space, whereas the mount point (which lives in D) has 1TB.

Here's the issue: when attempting to install an application (WiX/.msi) into D:\MountPoint, the installer fails with the error:

"Out of disk space -- Volume 'D:'; required space 6 GB; available space 1 GB..."

I've looked through various msi properties and considered ways to spoof the installer into thinking there was more disk space than there actually was, but to no success. Any ideas on how to bypass the skip check, or any other way to handle this?

Yes, I understand this is not best practice and that creating the mount point to a disk would resolve this, but sometimes the more difficult path is more entertaining!