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!
Day 2 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 2 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Learn your SA benefits! The Get Licensing Ready SA handout is a great resource – download it (and all its useful friends) here: http://bit.ly/GLRhandouts.
Updates to SA Planning Services
A new SA benefit – Microsoft Dynamics Deployment Planning Services (DYDPS) – will be available from 8 December 2014.
Read the announcement here (http://bit.ly/1vawjNz) and get some resources if you’re a partner, or check out pages 68/69 of the December 2014 Product List for details of what’s included in this new category.
The Product List also lists many new engagements in existing categories – planning for migration to Hyper-V from VMware, or planning for an Enterprise Mobility implementation, for example.
Our Advent Calendar of 74-678 Tips!
Starting today – 24 tips for a successful 74-678 Christmas!
Better for you than a chocolate Advent calendar, our top tips will be jolly useful if you’re intending to take your Volume Licensing exam in the near future. So, without further ado, let’s open the door to our first tip…
An important part of your preparation is getting a feel for the types of questions you can expect in the exam, and our free, 20 question Taster Test will enable you to do just that. Experience it here: http://bit.ly/74-678.