Microsoft CertificationExam Coaching Session: 70-630 MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

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Presenter: Mick Badran

Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) – 14+ yrsMCSE, MCSD, MVP, Microsoft Virtual TS, CSD Advisor….Trainer – 50%, Consultant – 50%Started with SharePoint in 2000

Agenda for tonight

General Study and Exam Tips

70-630 Cram for Exam

Study and Pass your exams!

Mick’s Study Tips

General Tips – Getting Registered

Set a dateFlips a mental switch

No longer “someday”Forces study time and focus

Make a study planHours per dayPractice questions per day

General Tips - Studying

Study RecommendationsReal-world experience in fieldHands-on experience in lab/virtual machineMicrosoft Official Curriculum (MOC) - ILTOnline course (MODL)Microsoft E-learningMicrosoft PressPractice Questions – MeasureUp or SelfTest**Focus on How to**

General Tips – Exam Information

Exam Objectives: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-630.mspxPassing score is approximately 700 or 70%51 questions – short questions, you either know or not.Approximately 110 minutesTypes of questions you’ll encounter

Mostly multiple choiceNo penalty for guessing; partial credit for some

Learn the Site Templates, Records Center and How To. E.g. How to Search for broken site links.

Mick’s General exam pattern

Don’t be afraid to run through the questions as many times as you need e.g. 5, 6 or 7 times.On the first ‘pass’ only answer questions that:

You *know* 100%Are short and easy to answerLeave long winded questions till 2nd pass.

First pass is to get a ‘feel’ for the questionsBy the end of the first pass, all the 100% ones are answered and you’re not stressing on time/question constraints.

General Tips - Taking Exam (cont.)

Budget time if necessary - halfway check Checkboxes for Comment, Review

Always Review any questions in doubt!Sometimes later exam questions can jog memoryWhen in doubt, always stick with first answer Comments are read, be nice!

Interface is 640x480For worldwide exam compatibilityCan be frustrating for larger questions

General Tips – Mick’s Special Tips

Read Answers first!Prime your brain - the Reticular Activating Cortex

Impress friends with phrases like “Reticular Activating Cortex”

Do not over analyse; e.g PermissionsThe Microsoft Exam Universe

Think “what is the official Microsoft answer?”Think “what if the world had only MS products?”No 3rd party products on exam – unlike a .NET one I did

Time for SharePoint 70-630 Core Content!

SharePoint - Major Topics

• Farm provisioning, quiesce farms, servers and forms.

• Usage Logs• Sites and Broken links• SSP• Search + Alerts• Indexing and refreshing

indexes.• InfoPath forms and data

connections• Content Types + Metadata• Site Templates – Record

Center, Report Center, Document Center

• Site Actions Menu• CMS Assessment tool• Zones and Alternate Access

Mappings• Stsadm – installfeature

command

Farm Provisioning

What screen is seen straight after install?What immediate steps do we need to do?What are the main farm components?

Usage Logs

What do we get?How do we turn them on?Where do we see them?

Sites, Site Directory + Broken Links

Site, Subsites and Managed PathsPurpose of Site Directory – explore thisBroken Links – how to search + fix

SSP

The purpose of a SSPWhat is contained within an SSPMajor SSP ComponentsRelationship to MySite(s) + Other.

Search + Alerts

Search SetupCrawled PropertiesTurning off/on Alerting of UsersAD Mapped propertiesManaged PropertiesIndexing of Content and Refreshing IndexesTypes of Indexes

Content Types and Metadata

What are Content Types?The Purpose of them?Visibility of Content TypesWorking with Content TypesExposing Content Types

InfoPath Forms + Data Connection Libraries

Setting up Forms ServicesCreating and Publishing an InfoPath FormManaging FormsDocument/Form Library Settings

Excel Services

Setting up Excel ServicesProvisioning Report LibrariesPublishing Excel ServicesViewing Web based Excel Services

Site Templates

Know the different Site Templates – mainly Enterprise ones

Report CenterDocument CenterRecord Center

Creating each of these sitesActivation of Features

Site Actions Menu

When do/don’t we see Site Actions MenuSite Actions Menu for Team SiteSite Actions Menu for Publishing Site

CMS Assessment Tool

Used to assess and produce a report on the content stored in MCMS pre migration.Size, #of resources, where etc.“How bigger job is this?”Downloadable from the Web

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=360d0e83-fa70-4c24-bcd6-426cafbcc627&displaylang=en

Zones and Alternate Access Mappings

What are Alternate Access MappingsSteps to set this up

Zones?Using Different Authentication Providers

StsAdm Commands

1. Stsadm –o installfeature…2. Stsadm –o activatefeature…3. Stsadm –o addsolution….4. Stsadm –o deploysolution…

What is a solution?

Couple of Practice Questions

Practice Question

Actual practice test question courtesy of Pass-Guaranteed

Practice Question

Actual practice test question courtesy of Pass-Guaranteed

We made it!

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