{"id":825,"date":"2010-08-30T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=825"},"modified":"2010-10-28T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:06:00","slug":"mcitpea-%e2%80%93-passed-the-microsoft-070-640-windows-server-2008-active-directory-configuring-exam-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"MCITP:EA \u2013 Passed the Microsoft 070-640 Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring exam today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad to have passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/en\/us\/exam.aspx?ID=70-640&amp;locale=en-us\">070-640<\/a> the first time.\u00a0 I spent two months on this one.\u00a0 I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/MCTS-Self-Paced-Training-Exam-70-640\/dp\/0735625131\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1283402840&amp;sr=8-2\">the book<\/a>.\u00a0 I actually did all the labs in the book using virtual machines.\u00a0 I did additional practice on real machines at work.\u00a0 I took 2 practice exams a day, pretty much every day, for over a month, like probably 80? total practice exam attempts.\u00a0 (I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.measureup.com\/catalog\/product.aspx?vid=5&amp;cid=MCTS&amp;tid=12&amp;pid=2204\">MeasureUp exams<\/a> that came with the book, and I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selftestsoftware.com\/product.aspx?product_id=70-640\">Kaplan SelfTest<\/a> exams as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;d say that if you are like me, that 2 months per exam is about what it takes, and that&#8217;s studying an hour or two a day, most days of the week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Porter_MS_Learning_Transcript_as_of_20100830.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-821\" title=\"MCTS(rgb)_1078_1080_1079\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/MCTSrgb_1078_1080_1079.png\" alt=\"MCTS(rgb)_1078_1080_1079\" width=\"473\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/MCTSrgb_1078_1080_1079.png 473w, https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/MCTSrgb_1078_1080_1079-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Porter_MCTS_AD.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-981\" title=\"Porter_MCTS_AD\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Porter_MCTS_AD-150x150.png\" alt=\"Porter_MCTS_AD\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This test is long, longer than any other Microsoft test I have taken.\u00a0 It has twice as many questions.\u00a0 I took the test in Bakersfield, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamondtechsolutions.net\">Diamond Technologies<\/a> (nice place, I&#8217;ve been there twice now, probably the nicest test center that is anywhere close to me).\u00a0 The test proctor sat me down and said &#8220;You have 4 hours for this test, good luck.&#8221;\u00a0 I about fell off the chair.\u00a0 Four hours!\u00a0 I finished in a little less than three, and that&#8217;s with taking the time to go over my answers a couple of times.\u00a0 Previous exams were more like 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The test is much like the book, and a lot like the practice exams, unlike some of the other tests in this series.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=602\">Like I said before<\/a>, the Microsoft 070-647 Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator exam is only sort of like the book, and it doesn&#8217;t look much like the practice exams either.\u00a0 I taken it twice, and have yet to pass it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?page_id=26\">I keep all my certifications here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad to have passed 070-640 the first time.\u00a0 I spent two months on this one.\u00a0 I read the book.\u00a0 I actually did all the labs in the book using virtual machines.\u00a0 I did additional practice on real machines at&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}