{"id":94,"date":"2010-06-19T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2010-06-19T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T01:11:07","slug":"mcts-system-center-configuration-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/mcts-system-center-configuration-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"MCTS: System Center Configuration Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted previously about attending a Microsoft authorized training course on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (officially shortened to ConfigMgr, but commonly referred to as SCCM). After that course, I had intended on taking the exam but as the product was not one in which I was involved with regularly, and some life stuff that got in the way, I put it off.<\/p>\n<p>This year my work responsibilities have shifted and I&#8217;m now managing my employer&#8217;s ConfigMgr environment. I&#8217;ve spent time since getting back up to speed on the product, remembering those details from the class and learning other details which you can only get by experience on a &#8220;real-world&#8221; deployment. Because I&#8217;ve been so deep in ConfigMgr lately, it seemed to only make sense that I should get the test out of the way, and the fact that Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Second Shot&#8221; program is nearing an end prompted me to start studying.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I would say the biggest study tool I used was my employment. Aside from that, I also used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/System-Center-Configuration-Manager-Unleashed\/dp\/0672330237\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1277151677&amp;sr=8-1\">this <\/a>book which I have found to contain a good amount of information.\u00a0 Microsoft also has information on its page which gives details about the exam, skills measured, and recommend training; that information can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/en\/us\/exam.aspx?ID=70-401&amp;locale=en-us\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96\" title=\"button_MCTS_SysCtr_ConfigMgr\" src=\"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/button_MCTS_SysCtr_ConfigMgr.gif\" alt=\"MCTS: System Center Configuration Manager\" width=\"240\" height=\"85\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted previously about attending a Microsoft authorized training course on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (officially shortened to ConfigMgr, but commonly referred to as SCCM). After that course, I had intended on taking the exam but as the product was not one in which I was involved with regularly, and some life stuff that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-certification","category-tech-configmgr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshua.frederici.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}