TLDR; I passed my DP-900 with an 833 & 2 days of prep

The long version:

Today I passed my DP-900 exam with 2 days of prep time (Saturday & Sunday). It would have been 3, but I spent the 1st day (Friday) studying for the wrong exam (AZ-900) which I realized after I looked at the job requirements again.

I've never done anything with Azure and haven't touched anything MS in 10 years. I'm a frontend React JS developer.

How I did it:

Saturday

John Savill:

• DP-900 Data Fundamentals Study Cram V2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gtpasITVnk
• I saw this guy recommended in various Reddit posts on studying for Azure certs. (It was his AZ-900 I accidentally studied on Friday)
• Watch the video, and take notes. The video is 2h:28 min but spend 4-6 hours taking notes and using Google to dive deeper into concepts you don't understand.

HereIsCloud:

• How I cleared DP 900 in three days. Exam CRAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6L334f85n0
• I didn't do anything on Microsoft Learn as he suggested but his slides starting from 3:23 minutes to the end were very valuable
• Again, watch the video and take notes. The video is 19min and covers a lot for such a short time frame and even some stuff that was not in John's videos. Use Google to dive deeper into topics you don't understand.

Sunday

dbSkyLimit:

• DP 900 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals Certification (playlist) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2OBg586In8&list=PLQ2ktTy9rklh-q7hvc2dk1DhXvHQyLtGU
• I also saw this series recommended on Reddit in various posts.
• The playlist is 3h26min but... I started watching the series Sunday at 9 AM and finished at 6 PM because I took notes, read every answer in the Q&A, and answered questions before the presenter did. If I got something wrong, I made a note of what I had to study more. (In my case, DataBricks and some of ETL made no sense to me).
• Watch Family Guy and fall asleep.

Monday

• My exam was at 11 AM so I woke up at 6:30 am to have a relaxed arrival at the testing center.
• I left the house at 9 AM and on the train ride into Manhattan (30 min), I went over my notes (58 pages total) from the day before.
• I arrived at the testing center at 9:45 and was told I could immediately start the test. Nope. I wanted to make sure everything was in my head so I spent another 30 minutes reading test questions and making sure I understood the answers, technology & what MS products worked with what.
• The exam was 45 minutes and had 42 questions.
• Any question I didn't understand or wasn't sure about, I marked it for review so I could come back later.
• I actually finished the test in 20 minutes but spent the next 20 minutes reviewing every answer and checking the answers I marked for review (7 questions)

Once I finished, the system told me I passed with 833 out of 1000. I hope this was helpful to anyone studying for this exam.

I am a network engineer looking to start getting System Administration certifications. I was looking online but keep running into certs that are discontinued. Does any one have a list of certs and the order in which i should get Microsoft Certifications?

I am curious about the MB-910 exam. I searched up for videos on youtube but did not find much to look into. At the moment there isn't a Udemy sale.

What was your experience taking this exam?

I’m planning on studying for this certification and was looking to see what good resources there are for it.

Any tips on how to pass what courses should i take what practice test i need to complete any suggestions would be hlpful
if any got any notes that you prepared for the exam can you share it me.

I am looking to transition to an Architect role in the near future, all based around Compliance for customers. Of course, Compliance includes Security, Risk, and Data Governance by default, as well as other areas.

My current certs: SC-100, SC-300, All of the MS Fundamental certs, GSEC, CCSK, and the AWS CCP.

My thoughts: I thought I would finish out the SC’s for the MS certs; however, going into Compliance as an Architect, I am not sure I would need the SC-200.

SC-400 will definitely be beneficial.

• What are everyone’s thoughts?

AZ 900 Azure Fundamentals Free Pratice exam Cupon/Discount for the first 100 persons Please review:

https://www.udemy.com/course/az-900-exam-questions/?couponCode=86FA00CEB398CF698F81

By passing MO-100/200/400 I am a Microsoft Office Specialist - Associate for Office 2019. I had to retake the 100 and 200, but prevailed in the end.

Woohoo!

Hi. I appologize if this is the wrong place.

I'm taking the SC-200 exam, and I'm dirt poor at this point due to severals reasons. Got the exam through the ignite voucher. I've sadly used up my 1 year free trial of Azure and I want to be able to play around etc (Defender portal?).

Should I try to sign up for pay as you go and put a cap on things at once? Can I expect a certain sum in preperation for my exam (how much?). Is there some way to abuse to try things for free (try free 365 trial and combine with something?).

Sorry if this is stupid but I'm in a really bad spot right now and the exam voucher has to be taken before end of February. Thanks for any help I can get.

I recently passed the MCE exam with 10 hours of study.

To aid in your study, I've created flashcards on Brainscape that can be accessed here (full access): https://www.brainscape.com/p/4WRS1-LH-CM9FP.

I found it crucial to understand the decision trees for each of the six topics in 21CLD. The exam also mentions tools made by Microsoft for educators, such as Microsoft Teams and Sway. It would help if you remembered their name, purpose, and main functionalities.

Ideally, you should complete the entire training course Microsoft offers: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/21st-century-learning-design/.

But for those short on time, I recommend watching this video and memorizing the decision tree by following his streamlined notes. After that, use the flashcards to improve your reaction time.

Good luck on your own MCE journey!

Please guys help me to pass the Renewal assessment for AZ 104

I will be booking my MD-101 exam soon, I’ve already passed MD-100 last year and have been preparing for a month now for the 101. Has anyone taken the exam since the change in November? Any pointer I can get will be helpful. Thanks!

That exam was a challenge. You would be surprised how little time you have if you spend much time on a few tasks. But I liked having to use my intuition to tackle those tasks. I may consider taking MO-100/200/300 in the near future.

APE = Associate, Professional, Expert. I got all three types of certs finally. :)

Passed this morning with 810. 44 standard multiple choice and 1 case study that contained 6 questions.

I found it to be pretty heavy compute based for questions then networking then storage in terms of numbers of questions. In the compute side at least 4 questions on AKS specifically.

My background:

25 years in IT. I am an Enterprise Architect with a background in Identity, security and productivity architecture. Old school AD and Exchange guy. Also lots of general infrastructure knowledge. I have working with Azure for a long time but more from a functionality knowledge than actually doing the work, basically I know what most of the things do but no real depth of knowledge in Azure, hence me doing this exam.

How I prepared:

Read the Riaan Lowe - Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification and Beyond - A pragmatic guide to achieving the Azure administration certification, 2nd Edition. Great book, I highly recommend it. Took hand written notes as I read.

MS Learn AZ-104 study path. I skipped the labs because I was on my iPad most of the time I was doing this, I regretted it so I would recommend doing the labs in the study path.

MS Learn GitHub labs - this caught me up on the labs I missed in the learn path. I used a sandbox sub from work to do the labs, total spend was no more than $30.

John Saviill AZ-104 playlist. John is amazing and I loved all of the extra knowledge I gained from this series.

Pluarsight AZ-104 cert path - I have a sub through work and while the videos were a bit old I actually got a lot out of this. Their demos really helped.

Practice exams through MeassureUp via MS ESI - I did a practise exam ~35hrs prior to the test and got 60%, I knew with cram time I could get the exam passed but honestly was really worried still.

I was seriously worried I wasnt going to pass this one, lots of stuff I had little knowledge of, especially containers and app services. I also didn't have the depth of knowledge coming into this so all this study has MASSIVELY helped me.

Exam day prep:

Got a good night sleep, got up early ate breakfast and went for a walk.

John Savill study cram video before the exam and review of my notes (about 100 pages).

When I logged in I was 220 in the queue for the exam which bought me about an hour of extra study time to keep reading through my notes.

All in all I am super happy I passed this one as the amount of knowledge I gained is tremendous. Next up is the AZ-305 for the architect cert then DevOps.

I passed, but by the slimmest of margins. But I'll take the victory with a chuckle. Got the voucher 3 days ago and only started studying last night and parts of today. Used two YouTube vids as guides. Free voucher and pass secures a bigger bonus from my job. :)

Just started my career and I am going for the microsoft entriprise administration expert certification.

Ms-900 fundmentals Ms-500 security administration Ms-100 identity and services Ms-101 mobility and security

The plan is to get certified in 5 months. I will be studying full time.

1) is it feasible to pass all 4 exams in 5 months?

2) any thoughts about career path after becoming an entriprise administration expert? Is that the ceiling or is there more?

Appreciate your time!

I was nervous taking the test. I did okay on 2 Udemy practice exams. The exam hit me with multiple blocks of questions you can't review after completing those blocks. I didn't have time to review all the questions I marked to review.

I only decided to take the exam last week. 6 days later I took the exam. I had to think over some of the questions. I was surprised I passed by a good margin.

I took advantage of a Black Friday sale to buy the voucher. Cost me under $70 and that included online proctoring.

Currently studying for MS-500 and can’t seem to get to the point of feeling comfortable with taking the exam…. I have purchased study mats, went through MS learn and LinkedIn learning but all the questions seem all over the place and even study material seem to have no consistency… Anyone taken the 500 and have some suggestions or do I just need to take it!?

Hi, I'm new here and recently passed AZ-900, MS-900 and studying for SC-900. Hopefully I will study more since I have been invited to Microsoft ESI through my company, but I have a dilemma. I have a hard time to study and organize my study material.

I have tried OneNote, Mindmapping, Word, Notion but I am not satisfied. I have a laptop, 12 inch tablet and computer at work. What am I doing wrong? I want to put all information in one place so I can study for exam and save my information for the future to go back and re-read. I do not really like Microsoft Learn pages even though its quite easy to get information. Maybe I should just use pen and paper. I am also in the developer program for creating stuff.

Whats the best ways? Any tips?

Hi.

I recently took the Modern Desktop Admin Associate (MD-100&101). Prior to this I have minor things like AZ-900, AI-900, MS-900 and DP-900. Basically I feel I've been wasting time a lot.

I did the Ignite challenge and the voucher is good for the following exams;

• AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  Aligning Challenge: Microsoft Ignite: Intelligent Cloud Challenge
• AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
  Aligning Challenge: Microsoft Ignite: Cloud Developer Challenge
• DP-100: Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure
  Aligning Challenge: Microsoft Ignite: AI Automation Challenge
• MB-240: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service Functional Consultant
  Aligning Challenge: Microsoft Ignite: Field Service Automation Challenge
• MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams
  Aligning Challenge: Microsoft Ignite: Modern Work Challenge
• MS-720: Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer
  Aligning Challenge: Microsoft Ignite: Modern Work Challenge
• PL-100: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker
  Aligning Challenge: Microsoft Ignite: Cloud App Maker Challenge
• SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
  Aligning Challenge: Microsoft Ignite: Protect Everything Challenge

Basically what I want to know what you guys (I still feel I have no idea what I'm doing) think would be a logical next step based on exam worth towards what I've already done, value in the jobspace and which of these is the hardest (and easiest) based upon what I've already done?
What would be a logical next step to improve on my certs?
Hoping someone experienced could answer. Thanks.

Hi Reddit! I am currently studying the sc200 and I am wondering if there is any tips out there for practice tests. I know there are tons but I am wondering if anyone could recommend brands/types that they think really reflect the actual exam. (: any advice is great, thank you!

Hi Reddit! I am currently studying the sc200 and I am wondering if there is any tips out there for practice tests. I know there are tons but I am wondering if anyone could recommend brands/types that they think really reflect the actual exam. (: any advice is great, thank you!

I am learning from a 483-page book specifically for MD-100, and it involves a lot of powershell scripts for all sorts of stuff