Technical details can be anything - from PowerShell cmdlets to registry settings to configuration settings for. Sometimes I use an honest to goodness pen and paper, but I usually use OneNote.
I jot down every technical detail I see while studying for an exam. If I wrote “click bait” this is where I would have the headline, “One simple trick to pass Microsoft Exam.” Seriously, it is that important. That is where having a list of skills comes in. Of course, the downside is that there are often thousands of pages on a given subject, so the enormity of information can make TechNet seem unusable. Microsoft publishes pretty much everything about everything Microsoft on TechNet and MSDN, so it is highly likely that any technical details that can be asked are covered in TechNet. Online Resources: An undervalued study resource for Microsoft exams is Microsoft Support (or MSDN for developers). Most of these sites violate Microsoft Intellectual Property rights and if you are caught using these resources, Microsoft may levy significant penalties against you. I will not go into detail, but I strongly advise against using them. There are also unsanctioned “brain dumps” that many exam candidates use. Most of the major publishers (MS Press, APress, Sams, etc.) have study guides for the more popular exams and MS Press has guides for most exams.
Be careful to get a study guide from a legitimate source. Publisher Study Guides: If you do not have the ability to take a Microsoft official course then there are a myriad of books out there as study guides. I use the skills list as a guide to the content. This is where having a list of skills is useful. I have had students swear that a concept on the exam wasn’t covered in the MOC content only to go back and find that they had missed it or forgotten it. This doesn’t mean that exam questions will be written word for word directly from the content, but most of the concepts on the exam are covered in detail in the MOC course content. The MOC content is used in official Microsoft courses, is written by experts in the field and tends to align with the objectives in the exams. Microsoft Certified Curriculum (MOC): I have access to Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) as a Certified Trainer, and therefore have an advantage, and can also shed light on its high value in preparing for exams. Here are my top 3 recommendations for Microsoft study material: While you will encounter questions on skills not listed in the page, I have never failed an exam for which I was comfortable with this skill list.Īs a Microsoft Certified Trainer, I have experience collecting and assessing which resources are the best for learners to get the most out of. This is, of course, a pretty fair bit of work, but it is better than not having any idea what to study. I make sure I understand the details of each skill in the list. I break out every skill that is listed into an Excel spreadsheet or a table in OneNote. Each sub-objective has a set of skills listed in paragraph form. The objectives shown in the screen shot break out into sub-objectives. This is the first place I go when studying for an exam. For example, here is an exam description for AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate. Microsoft publishes exam description pages for every exam they administer. However, breathe a sigh of relief because there is one place to go to find out most of the topics that will be on an exam. No matter how much you study, you will likely encounter questions you have never seen any material on (more about this later). So, how do you know what will be on the exam? The scary answer is that you can’t, at least not everything. Every question is a trick question so they are pretty hard to guess at. The exams dive into minutia, asking questions that people with years of experience can’t answer. Microsoft certification exams are usually hard, really hard. Taking a Microsoft certification exam “cold” is a good way to end up retaking a Microsoft certification exam. You do not need to follow this approach, but you definitely need an approach. In fact, as I started thinking about it, I have never failed an exam for which I have gone through the process that I am laying out herein. Over the years I have developed an approach to taking exams and have generally passed many more than I have failed. I can’t say that I am ever excited to take an exam, but I have done well on them. I have taken a lot of Microsoft certification exams over the last 20 years.
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