{"id":964,"date":"2010-10-26T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=964"},"modified":"2010-10-28T13:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T20:47:27","slug":"mcitpsa-completed-%e2%80%93-passed-the-microsoft-070-646-pro-windows-server-2008-server-administrator-exam-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"MCITP:SA, Completed! \u2013 Passed the Microsoft 070-646 Pro: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator exam today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently completed my <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=925\">Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional: Enterprise Administrator<\/a> certification. This certification requires you to pass 5 exams.\u00a0 It turns out that if I took one more exam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/en\/us\/exam.aspx?ID=70-646&amp;locale=en-us\">070-646 Pro: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator<\/a>, I&#8217;d qualify for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Certified_Professional#Microsoft_Certified_IT_Professional_.28MCITP.29\">Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional: Server Administrator<\/a> (MCITP: SA) as well.<a href=\"..\/?p=925\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was pretty straight forward.\u00a0 After all of  the other Windows tests I\u2019ve been passing, this one was pretty easy.\u00a0 I  studied for 2 weeks.\u00a0 I used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/MCITP-Self-Paced-Training-Exam-70-646\/dp\/0735625107\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1288283322&amp;sr=8-1\">Microsoft Press book for 070-646<\/a> to study with (which comes with 2 pretty good practice tests included), and I bought an additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selftestsoftware.com\/product.aspx?product_id=70-646\">Kaplan Self Test practice exam<\/a>.\u00a0 The actual test was sort of like the practice exams, unlike many of the Microsoft exams I&#8217;ve seen recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Porter_MS_Learning_Transcript_as_of_20101027.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-963\" title=\"MCITP_EA_SA\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/MCITP_EA_SA.png\" alt=\"MCITP_EA_SA\" width=\"263\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Porter_MCITP_SA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-984\" title=\"Porter_MCITP_SA\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Porter_MCITP_SA-150x150.png\" alt=\"Porter_MCITP_SA\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently completed my Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional: Enterprise Administrator certification. This certification requires you to pass 5 exams.\u00a0 It turns out that if I took one more exam, 070-646 Pro: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator, I&#8217;d qualify for&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=964\" 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-964","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\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}