{"id":12,"date":"2008-07-11T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-07-11T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T11:52:28","slug":"10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/10-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MCTS: Network Infrastructure Configuration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I took Microsoft Certification test 70-642 today.\u00a0 This is one test of the MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) series for Windows Server 2008.\u00a0 It specifically covers &#8220;Network Infrastructure Configuration&#8221;, which includes topics such as DNS and\u00a0DHCP, as well as some new things like NAP, or Network Access Protection.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the test shouldnt be too difficult for a candidate who has some real-world experience\u00a0regarding many of these topics, and who puts the time in to get up to speed on some of the new things Microsoft has added with Server 2008.<\/p>\n<p>As you could probably tell, I passed this test; I finished with a score of 966\/1000.\u00a0 Not bad for only taking 2 weeks to sutdy.\u00a0 And in case you were wondering, I used the official Microsoft Press Self-Paced study book for this test.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17\" title=\"mcts_network_infrastructure\" src=\"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/mcts_network_infrastructure.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MCTS: Network Infrastructure Configuration\" width=\"183\" height=\"58\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already looking over the material for 70-640, which is MCTS: Active Directory Configuration.\u00a0 Estimated test date is August 1, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took Microsoft Certification test 70-642 today.\u00a0 This is one test of the MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) series for Windows Server 2008.\u00a0 It specifically covers &#8220;Network Infrastructure Configuration&#8221;, which includes topics such as DNS and\u00a0DHCP, as well as some new things like NAP, or Network Access Protection. Overall, the test shouldnt be too difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}