Tip 17 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make sure you know how to license Windows Server in a virtual environment and remember to recommend Datacenter edition when there are more than, say, 10 virtual machines running on a server.

Tip 16 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make sure you know your MVLC from your VLSC – customers manage their MPSA purchases through MVLC and all other agreements through VLSC.

Tip 15 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make sure you know how Azure payments work in an SCE – an upfront monetary commitment if it’s an Azure-only SCE, and quarterly invoicing if it’s signed with one of the other components.

Tip 14 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Don’t get caught out not knowing the answers to the easy questions – learn the different Price Level bands for the MPSA/Select Plus and Enterprise Agreements.

Tip 13 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Remember the extra SA benefits that are available to MPSA and Select Plus customers when they have Software Assurance Membership – Training Vouchers and Planning Services.

Tip 12 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Don’t waste time and money by not being completely ready to take your exam. Our Sample Exam gives you a chance to evaluate how close you are with your preparation. There’s a case study to work through with 12 questions to answer, and then 42 general licensing questions.

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Tip 11 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make friends with Ali! She’ll help you to remember the differences between Office Standard 2013 and Office Professional Plus 2013 – Access, Lync and InfoPath – so you can recommend the right product in the exam.

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.

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.

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