The Road to MCSE

Hello and welcome to my blog, I'll post some info I gathered during my journey to be an MCSE - Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (hopefully), at the time of writing this post, I've passed the first two exams, 70-410 & 70-411, please find the related posts for each, enjoy, and good luck,

Omar Dabbas,

70-411 Practice Test (Dumps)

Exam collection is a very good source of exam practice tests, you can check people comments, rating, negotiations about specific questions on the website:
http://www.examcollection.com/70-411.html

I've got this dump (which they claim to be premium), and studied these two:

2014-11-13 Angus 211Q
&
2014-08-18 ADELINE 255 Q

But look, the three of them have wrong answers, don't depend 100% on any of them, check the explanation, paste the question on Google and you'll find many answers, or look for it yourself,

For VCE problems, and newer version each couple of days, I've studied the tests using PDF as you may noticed, this website:
http://101exams.com/
Is amazing, they convert VCE exams to PDF, if you don't find your exam on their website in PDF, you can just ask them for it,

Good luck,

Omar,

70-411 Resources & Sturdy Materials

Books:
The training guide is the same one mentioned earlier in 70-410 resources post, by Orin Thomas:
http://www.amazon.com/Training-Administering-Windows-Server-Microsoft/dp/0735684693
Which covers the MCSA exams not only the 70-410 (with 70-411 & 70-412)

The exam reference book by Charlie Russel covers the main topic, you can find it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Exam-70-411-Administering-Windows-Server/dp/0735684790

Video Series?
I used CBT nuggets again to study the course, the series is very long (38 videos), it covers almost everything in the exam, I highly recommend it,
I've created a study notes book out of the series, it comes in 54 pages, which I hopefully will be a good resource to revise the videos subjects once you're done with them, you can find my notes attached here at the bottom of this post

For many exam topics, I've looked on the Internet for more videos, like DirectAccess, WAP, NAP, you can find the DirectAccess video on Channel9, or by clicking here, there is also a good video about NAP enforcement using DHCP found on YouTube from here,

TechNet will be your best friend during the journey, the most trusted source for your answers,

CBT Nuggets Notes - Omar Dabbas

Omar,

70-411 Overview

As I mentioned previously in the 70-410 overview, we need to have a good information about exam objectives, click here to see Microsoft official exam objectives (with R2),

Many good information are found on these blogs, take a tour on them:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2014/01/17/free-guide-friday-updated-early-experts-study-guide-for-new-mcsa-exams-exam-70-411.aspx

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/certification/server/f/496/t/321433.aspx?pi4734=2

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2013/03/04/90-days-to-mcsa-windows-server-2012-edition.aspx#fbid=X69FNYJYiMp

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2013/06/28/how-to-use-training-guides-for-exam-prep.aspx

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/certification/server/w/wiki/492.411-administering-windows-server-2012.aspx

http://mikeferrara.com/2013/12/road-to-mcsesharepoint-tips-on-passing-70-411-exam-administering-windows-server-2012/

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Is-there-good-book-study-4576007.S.215666309

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/certification/server/f/496.aspx

http://benofthecloud.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/dual-mcse-certification-in-90-days/

Omar,

70-410 - My Personal Notes

I've created these two notes files, one from CBT nuggets, and the other from the exam reference book, I hope you find them useful,


CBTNuggets Notes
Exam Reference Notes


Here is also a sheet for many PowerShell commands related to the topics, I took them from the lady blog mentioned before and created them in a PDF format.

PowerShell Commands

I hope you find this information useful for you, and good luck in your exam, I'm off to 70-411 now.

If you have any question, feel free to ask please :)

Omar,