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

2. 2 Presenter: Mick Badran Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) – 14+ yrs MCSE, MCSD, MVP, Microsoft Virtual TS, CSD Advisor…. Trainer – 50%, Consultant – 50% Started with SharePoint in 2000

3. Agenda for tonight General Study and Exam Tips 70-630 Cram for Exam Study and Pass your exams!

4. Mick’s Study Tips

5. General Tips – Getting Registered Set a date Flips a mental switch No longer “someday” Forces study time and focus Make a study plan Hours per day Practice questions per day

6. General Tips - Studying Study Recommendations Real-world experience in field Hands-on experience in lab/virtual machine Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) - ILT Online course (MODL) Microsoft E-learning Microsoft Press Practice Questions – MeasureUp or SelfTest **Focus on How to**

7. General Tips – Exam Information Exam Objectives: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-630.mspx Passing score is approximately 700 or 70% 51 questions – short questions, you either know or not. Approximately 110 minutes Types of questions you’ll encounter Mostly multiple choice No 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.

8. 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 answer Leave long winded questions till 2nd pass. First pass is to get a ‘feel’ for the questions By the end of the first pass, all the 100% ones are answered and you’re not stressing on time/question constraints.

9. 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 memory When in doubt, always stick with first answer Comments are read, be nice! Interface is 640x480 For worldwide exam compatibility Can be frustrating for larger questions

10. 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 Permissions The 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 

11. Time for SharePoint 70-630 Core Content!

13. Usage Logs

14. Sites and Broken links

15. SSP

16. Search + Alerts

17. Indexing and refreshing indexes.

18. InfoPath forms and data connections

19. Content Types + Metadata

20. Site Templates – Record Center, Report Center, Document Center

21. Site Actions Menu

22. CMS Assessment tool

23. Zones and Alternate Access Mappings

25. Usage Logs What do we get? How do we turn them on? Where do we see them?

26. Sites, Site Directory + Broken Links Site, Subsites and Managed Paths Purpose of Site Directory – explore this Broken Links – how to search + fix

27. SSP The purpose of a SSP What is contained within an SSP Major SSP Components Relationship to MySite(s) + Other.

28. Search + Alerts Search Setup Crawled Properties Turning off/on Alerting of Users AD Mapped properties Managed Properties Indexing of Content and Refreshing Indexes Types of Indexes

29. Content Types and Metadata What are Content Types? The Purpose of them? Visibility of Content Types Working with Content Types Exposing Content Types

30. InfoPath Forms + Data Connection Libraries Setting up Forms Services Creating and Publishing an InfoPath Form Managing Forms Document/Form Library Settings

31. Excel Services Setting up Excel Services Provisioning Report Libraries Publishing Excel Services Viewing Web based Excel Services

32. Site Templates Know the different Site Templates – mainly Enterprise ones Report Center Document Center Record Center Creating each of these sites Activation of Features

33. Site Actions Menu When do/don’t we see Site Actions Menu Site Actions Menu for Team Site Site Actions Menu for Publishing Site

34. 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

35. Zones and Alternate Access Mappings What are Alternate Access Mappings Steps to set this up Zones? Using Different Authentication Providers

36. StsAdm Commands Stsadm –o installfeature… Stsadm –o activatefeature… Stsadm –o addsolution…. Stsadm –o deploysolution… What is a solution?

37. Couple of Practice Questions

38. Practice Question Actual practice test question courtesy of Pass-Guaranteed

39. Practice Question Actual practice test question courtesy of Pass-Guaranteed

40. We made it! 29

41. Q+A time!Presenter:Mick Badran - MVPBreeze Training

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