Studying for the SharePoint Administrator Exam 70-668

There are 4 main areas one nees to know very well to pass this:

1. Designing a SharePoint 2010 Farm Topology (27 percent)
2. Planning SharePoint 2010 Deployment (26 percent)
3. Defining a SharePoint 2010 Operations Strategy and Business Continuity (25 percent)
4. Planning for Search and Business Solutions (22 percent)

What does this mean for my study?

It looks like I know the first 3 areas quite well and the 4ths ok except for some of the new stuff or should I say, the marketing fluff that Microsoft outputs as some of what they are asking for seems a little ambigous.
Will now go over tehir learning plan and do a few step by step SharePoint installs and configuration.


This is going to mean a little work over the next week or so.
Here's to my painful journey to dichipher and study for an exam with no real studfy book or course material except what one can glean from the requirements.

Found out that there are hundreds if not thousands of links to mini articles at technet and msdn.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/ff627858.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776256%28v=office.12%29.aspx
So will go through these, plus hte help, and one of the wrox books and this will hopefully be what is required.

Marketing XMas email

Interesting discussion was had when I drafted up an emai lto go to all consulting clients in nsw.
The big question was, why are you mentioning New stuff we don't do yet?
Why don't people get it?
This is the draft as below...but need to tweak it with even more "New" stuff....
Some of the new stuff allow one to put in a picture of a parrot....better than web photos eh?

Merry Christmas ….,

We hope you’ve had a good year.

This year has been an interesting one for ###’s consulting services in the following three areas and

we do thank our clients who have worked with our consulting and development teams in the following areas.

aa)      Microsoft Office Conversions and Upgrades

bb)      Document Management (Quality Office Add-ins)

cc)      Content Management (WebSite Development)

 

Microsoft is bringing out some exciting new solutions next including Parrot for CRM (note you need SharePoint for CRM) and the new versions of Exchange and Sql Server.

So you’ll hear new terms such as ”Social Marketing” and “Digital Marketing” in a lot of their communication.

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The top three points of consulting/development work above include:

a) Office Conversions:

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·        Rebranding and updating Templates and Macros in Word is always busy

·        New Charting and Reporting Solutions that use the new Excel format to output professional graphics and numbers

b) Document Management

·        MacroView DMF leading the way with more useful functionality than most traditional DM systems

·        ClauseBank enabling you to squirt in word snippets into your emails and corporate documents

·        Saving Messages to SharePoint – the hottest add-in for SharePoint world-wide.

c) Content Management (Web Site Development):

·        The SharePoint Standardiser – to bring all document libraries into a standard configuration

·        Using the new DotNetNuke Content Management System with it’s nice new editor and SmartPhone Templates

·        ASP.Net and the old Classic ASP Web Development has also kept us busy this year with clients’ websites and intranets

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SharePoint 2010 Administration exam

For the Microsoft Gold Partnership renewal coming up in 2012 this requires 4 people to do the exam below.

Exam 70-668:

PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator

Designing a SharePoint 2010 Farm Topology (27 percent)

Planning SharePoint 2010 Deployment (26 percent)

Defining a SharePoint 2010 Operations Strategy and Business Continuity (25 percent)

Planning for Search and Business Solutions (22 percent)

Interesting how the farm topology is worth more than the other parts......

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