Recommended Posts

So, about two months ago I found out that Microsoft was giving away exam vouchers for the 74-409, so I grabbed one up, and started studying, despite the fact that I had never used System Center before in my life, much less gone in depth with things like Data Protection Manager, or Service Manager.

 

Well. I took the exam on the 30th, and scored an 875. =D  After waiting for a couple weeks for my exam results to be passed back to Microsoft, I have my transcript and can legitimately say that I now have my Microsoft Certified Specialist: Server Virtualization with Hyper-V and System Center 2012.

 

I think I'm going to add that whole line to my email sig.

 

 

 

Anyway, some people will say it's not much to be proud of, I'm sure. But I am extremely pleased with myself, and as it looks now, this will help my employer, as we're moving to a unified Microsoft solution for our infrastructure (currently on novell/vmware/other third party), and now will be pursuing my MCSE for Server 2012.

 

Now I'm wondering, how many people here took this exam?

Link to comment
https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1218431-finally-got-my-mcpmcs/
Share on other sites

I don't really use it much anymore but I've played with System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and a tiny bit of 2012 but haven't got any real qualifications to my name. My job role changed after I took this new position and I used to spend quite a bit of time looking after a Hyper V and VMware cluster. I have to say I enjoyed it and found it all quite interesting!

 

Good on you for taking the initative and bettering you're own knowledge etc in, what i believe, to be one of the best markets in IT at the moment. Talking to a few people, virtualisation is only going to continue to get bigger.

I don't really use it much anymore but I've played with System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and a tiny bit of 2012 but haven't got any real qualifications to my name. My job role changed after I took this new position and I used to spend quite a bit of time looking after a Hyper V and VMware cluster. I have to say I enjoyed it and found it all quite interesting!

 

Good on you for taking the initative and bettering you're own knowledge etc in, what i believe, to be one of the best markets in IT at the moment. Talking to a few people, virtualisation is only going to continue to get bigger.

 

The amount that you can do from the VMM console is mind blowing. I spent a good week just going over it. It is a magnificent beast.

 

I figured it was worth the effort, hopefully it allows me to increase my worth to this company, and others that I deal with.

 

 

Congrats!  I have an older MCSD which I am still trying to upgrade but I never seem to find the time to study.  And when I say upgrade I mean take the new tests as the upgrade path is now longer than retesting with all the .NET releases.

 

That seems a bit ridiculous. Understandable if it's an early 2000's MCSD though. The exams tend to change every six months lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks everyone for your kind words! =D

Congrats!!      

 

I'm working as a Senior Systems Engineer . As I'm in field nearly 10 years, I achieved the following certifications

 

Microsoft Certified IT Professional - Enterprise Administrator - 2008
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate -2012
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Security -2003
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - ISA2006
Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Specialist
 
I'm now preparing for MCSE - Private cloud. My employer sponsored me for all these exams and each certification got me around $1500 in salary increment.

The amount that you can do from the VMM console is mind blowing. I spent a good week just going over it. It is a magnificent beast.

 

I figured it was worth the effort, hopefully it allows me to increase my worth to this company, and others that I deal with.

 

 

yeah it's pretty powerful, Horrible when it goes wrong though!

 

After having a mixed VMWare and Hyper V environment, I much prefer SCVMM to Vsphere as a management interface. Like I said most of my experience was with 2008 but from what I saw of 2012 the "cloud" setup was a much better way for sharing resources amongst different groups. 

 

Hopefully one day my company will spend the extra time we need to get the 2012 setup into production and I'll get to see it a bit more.

 

Congrats!!      

 

I'm working as a Senior Systems Engineer . As I'm in field nearly 10 years, I achieved the following certifications

 

Microsoft Certified IT Professional - Enterprise Administrator - 2008
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate -2012
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Security -2003
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - ISA2006
Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Specialist
 
I'm now preparing for MCSE - Private cloud. My employer sponsored me for all these exams and each certification got me around $1500 in salary increment.

 

Wow, that's quite the list. Congrats!             Hopefully my employer feels the same way =P

 

yeah it's pretty powerful, Horrible when it goes wrong though!

 

After having a mixed VMWare and Hyper V environment, I much prefer SCVMM to Vsphere as a management interface. Like I said most of my experience was with 2008 but from what I saw of 2012 the "cloud" setup was a much better way for sharing resources amongst different groups. 

 

Hopefully one day my company will spend the extra time we need to get the 2012 setup into production and I'll get to see it a bit more.

I haven't worked with vsphere too much, so I don't have a really solid opinion on it, but I do love SCVMM It's not a nightmare to look at the dashboard. It's so easy to use, that the first time I set up a cluster, I had to go back and check and make sure I didn't miss 20 steps lol. It just felt too short and simple.

I also really like that the majority of tasks will give you a "Show Script" button, so you can save the powershell scripts for super easy automation.

 

I'm finding I really like the way everything is segregated. It didn't make any sense at first, but a couple of times, and you're flying through it.

Wow, that's quite the list. Congrats!             Hopefully my employer feels the same way =P

 

I haven't worked with vsphere too much, so I don't have a really solid opinion on it, but I do love SCVMM It's not a nightmare to look at the dashboard. It's so easy to use, that the first time I set up a cluster, I had to go back and check and make sure I didn't miss 20 steps lol. It just felt too short and simple.

I also really like that the majority of tasks will give you a "Show Script" button, so you can save the powershell scripts for super easy automation.

 

I'm finding I really like the way everything is segregated. It didn't make any sense at first, but a couple of times, and you're flying through it.

 

I've only ever added nodes to a cluster, never created one but I imagine its not much different. The more confusing side was setting up SAN storage for me, lots of iSCSI this and MPIO that... flew over my head!

I've only ever added nodes to a cluster, never created one but I imagine its not much different. The more confusing side was setting up SAN storage for me, lots of iSCSI this and MPIO that... flew over my head!

 

There's a wizard that you essentially just point and click for creating a cluster, and the powershell isn't much different. Type five letters, tab, type two letters, tab, etc. =P 

 

I'm not a storage guru either, but going through the labs at aka.ms/sclabs helped a lot. I still am not 100% on FibreChannel (I've never used it, never seen it, never want to lol).

 

Good job rr_Drock!

Thanks! =)

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • prices are insane its like 140 dollars more expensive, sigh
    • This seems backwards. You should have to explicitly authorize files for outside use. It shouldn't be the default.
    • Wow you are right, I never even noticed this until you said it! (870E Aorus Master) Before testing this card I had a TP-Link tx401 10GbE PCIe card in that slot (now using XikeStor 310 Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter).
    • Lack of 5.1 makes this a no sale. What I really wish creative would make would be a USB version that supports 5.1 analog audio for speakers, can switch to headphone mode, and matches the specs of their top tier cards. The current X870E AMD motherboards dont have a great option for adding a PCIE x1 card without cutting down pcie lanes to the graphics card.
    • The Microsoft Office feature that time forgot by Usama Jawad I have been actively using Microsoft Word for the past couple of decades in academic, professional, and personal capacities. Although I used it through the perpetual version of Office apps at the start, I have been an active subscriber of Microsoft 365 Family subscription for over five years now. This means that my Word installation is regularly updated with new features, some of which I don't really like, but that's beside the point. As new features get continuously added, old ones that used to be a staple of Word have started to take a backseat. While I was reminiscing over my Windows experiences from my childhood today, I suddenly remember one such capability that I heavily used in my younger years but have not really touched in over a decade, and haven't seen in documents created by others either. That feature is WordArt. Just to clarify, WordArt is not a Microsoft product specific to Word, and is included in other Office apps like PowerPoint and Excel too. However, Microsoft Word is the app that I used Word Art in heavily, while making assignments or other deliverables for school. If you're unaware, WordArt offers a collection of styling techniques for text, introducing 3D effects like shadows and reflections in the text. It used to be one of the coolest things ever when I was at school and me and my classmates would often compete to ensure that our assignment's title in WordArt was truly the best and stood out above the rest. See some examples of WordArt, still present in the latest versions of Word below: Although WordArt is undeniably cool, it has taken a bit of a backseat, and has been relegated from the Home tab to the Insert toolbar, along with a bunch of other utilities, making it very easy to miss. This isn't exactly surprising because WordArt doesn't really have a place in academic and professional documents anymore, and while I have seen some creatives using it while developing promo material, even that sector has gravitated more towards dedicated graphic designing tools in the past years. For the vast majority of us, WordArt doesn't really exist, and that's alright. At least, it's still an option that can allow us to reminisce our childhood or even make some quick text stylization, if we really need it. Perhaps its usage has waned over time or the novelty has worn off, but I haven't even seen children use it in their academic assignments anymore. In fact, many don't even know that it exists. Maybe that's the fate of every beloved feature. What once felt cutting edge eventually becomes a relic, quietly tucked away as tastes, trends, and technology move on. WordArt may no longer dominate school assignments or decorate the covers of classroom projects, but for those of us who grew up with it, it remains a colorful reminder of a time when making text glow, bend, and cast giant shadows felt like the height of creativity. Hidden behind a few clicks in modern Word, it still survives not as a productivity tool, but as a small piece of computing nostalgia that refuses to disappear.
  • Recent Achievements

    • First Post
      DrWankel earned a badge
      First Post
    • Reacting Well
      DrWankel earned a badge
      Reacting Well
    • Week One Done
      Supreme Spray LV earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Month Later
      Genuinetonerink- Dubai earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Genuinetonerink- Dubai earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      495
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      158
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      88
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      74
    5. 5
      Michael Scrip
      70
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!