{"id":10752,"date":"2010-08-06T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2010-08-06T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:47:50","slug":"passed-the-70-401-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10752","title":{"rendered":"Passed the 70-401 Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I passed the 70-401 (System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Configuring) exam this morning.\u00a0 I found most of the questions to be pretty simple.\u00a0 My advice: know the logs on the client, know the site roles (points), pay attention to software update deployment, and you are storted.\u00a0 Also pay attention to the various pieces of work you do to prep an evironment for installing ConfigMgr.\u00a0 I was surprised to see how the OS deployment questions seemed to only look at PXE and DHCP.\u00a0 There were a couple of questions that I marked for review.\u00a0 It was merely a matter of working out which answers were clearly wrong, leaving the right answers for you to tick.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 3 exams in just over a week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably have a lash at 70-659 next, before focusing on upgrading my MCSE to an MCITP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I passed the 70-401 (System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Configuring) exam this morning.\u00a0 I found most of the questions to be pretty simple.\u00a0 My advice: know the logs on the client, know the site roles (points), pay attention to software update deployment, and you are storted.\u00a0 Also pay attention to the various pieces of work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passed the 70-401 Exam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,60,193],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-configmgr","tag-configuration-manager","tag-system-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I passed the 70-401 (System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Configuring) exam this morning. 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