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70-620: TS: Configuring Microsoft Windows Vista Client – Passed.
The 70-620: TS: Configuring Microsoft Windows Vista Client exam is the first of the exams I have on the roadmap towards the MCITP: EA certification, and one that I am thankful to have out of the way. This exam by no means is very difficult, but there are some areas on the list of objectives that a lot of people simply don’t really use. Having used Vista for a long time now at home and work, I was comfortable with a bulk of the core content while some of the extra features built into Vista such as Meeting Space, Calendar, Fax and Scan, Tablet PC features, and Mobile device features were not very familiar to me since I’ve never had a reason to use them. Furthermore, aside from perhaps the Tablet PC and Mobile Devices features, I don’t see the other areas really being of much benefit since I have yet to see an organization that uses the other features.
This is what led to the problems with preparing for this exam, it took a lot of perseverance to actually study for this exam. When it comes to studying, I encounter a hard time staying on track unless the material is either something I find interesting, or something that there is much use out of understanding the material. This is not to say that if something isn’t interesting that I won’t study it at all, because I have studied many dis-interesting topics through my classes extensively – but many of those proved to have value in some aspects of my life or career. The portions of the 70-620 exam that I found problems to motivate myself to devote time to and study were both dis-interesting and content that I firmly believe will never really benefit me, and should I encounter those items in the real world at some point (unlikely) – it will be incredibly easy to work through regardless.
That being said, I did study for the exam in it’s entirety anyways since the topics could be brought up and I wasn’t about to fail an exam because I was ill prepared. I just had to buckle down and work through it, regardless of how boring the content was. Study materials used for this exam included the MS Press MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit, Configuring Windows Vista Client as well as the TestOut LabSim 70-620 – Configuring Windows Vista Certification Suite computer based training (CBT). The book was difficult to work through because of the issues discussed previously, and as a result I only read the first 3 chapters of the book. The bulk of the study time was spent watching the TestOut CBT through in it’s entirety once and then completing the full practice exam at the end of the training 4 or 5 times. In the end it turned out to be adequate and a pass was made.
Next up in the MCITP: EA track… 70-640, but only after the Windows 7 Beta (71-680) and the CompTIA Server+ 2009 Beta which are coming up in the next several days.
Till next time…