Tip 10 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Are you confident when you should use the PUR, Product List or OST? Make sure you can recommend the right document in different situations for the exam.
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Day 9 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 9 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Don’t waste time revising for things that aren’t in the exam – you don’t need to know anything about Visual Studio or MSDN licensing, for example.
MSDN Subscription Administrators’ Guide
If managing MSDN Subscriptions is part of your life, then this Subscription Administrator’s Guide is worth a read.
It’s a comprehensive (45 pages) overview of the all tasks that you’ll need to know how to tackle, with some useful tips and best practice recommendations too.
Get this August 2014 guide here: http://bit.ly/1ucJ3hm
Day 8 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 8 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. The new exam includes MPSA so make sure you’re familiar with the key elements of this program. The Get Licensing Ready site has a dedicated track on this topic to get you started: https://GetLicensingReady.com
Day 7 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 7 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make sure you’re up-to-date with your product licensing knowledge – so External Connector type licences are no more for Lync, SharePoint and Exchange, for example.
Get to all the Microsoft Licensing Guides in one place here: http://bit.ly/MSlicensingguides.
Day 6 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 6 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make sure you know if you’re being asked how many SQL Server Core LICENCES are required or how many SQL Server Core 2-PACKS you would order.
The answer to yesterday’s question is 48 licences.
Day 5 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 5 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make sure you can work out how many SQL Core licences are required for a given set of servers. Here’s one for you to have a go at:
A customer has three servers, each with four quad-core processors – how many licences do they need to run SQL Standard in the physical environment on each server?
Watch for the answer and another tip tomorrow!
Day 4 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 4 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Get 15% off your exam fee if you schedule and take your exam before 31 December 2014. You just need to use the voucher code 15OFF. See the full terms and conditions here: http://bit.ly/1CI9tSs.
Updates to Get Licensing Ready
The Virtualisation module has been removed from the Get Licensing Ready tracks. Are those GLR Elves mad?! No, there’s method in their madness – all of the virtualisation content is now incorporated into the various product modules where it should be – and thus there’s no need for this separate module any more.
Don’t forget to keep your GLR certification up to date at: https://GetLicensingReady.com.
Day 3 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 3 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. WOW!
These are the products that need to be activated when acquired through a Volume Licensing agreement – Windows 8.1, Office 2013, Windows Server 2012 R2. Don’t forget to learn them for the exam!