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.

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.

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.

74-678 Exam Prep Training Course Available

We’re pleased to announce our new 74-678 training course. If you need to pass this exam then this could be just the course for you.

Email paul@licensingschool co.uk if you’re interested in running it in your company, and get the outline here: http://bit.ly/74-678

Microsoft SAM and VL Competencies Updated

The Microsoft SAM and Volume Licensing partner competencies are updated to include the new Exam 74-678: Designing and Providing Microsoft Volume Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations, with a reminder that the 671/672 exams won’t be available after January 2015.

There’s also a new optional exam for the SAM competency – Exam 74-674: Delivering Business Value Planning Services – one of my all time favourite courses to teach! Get the full October 2014 MPN Disclosure Guide here: http://bit.ly/1s94d1X.

Exam 74-678 sample Software Assurance questions available!

This is the final part in our series of questions to help you check out whether you know enough to pass the 74-678 exam.

Each test is a random 20 questions on all of the different SA benefits – do you know which ones meet which customer needs and the programs that they’re available through?

Take a test here: http://bit.ly/74-678, and don’t forget to register if you want to know when all our other resources are released.