Exam experience

Today I took the Office 365 beta exams:
70-321 Deploying Office 365
70-323 Administering Office 365

In my opinion the 70-323 was pretty tough, while the 70-321 was a lot easier. I expected it to be the other way around though. Now unfortunately I have to wait for the results (normally within 8 weeks).

Quick exam reminders I studied before the exams

1. Deployment phase
   1. Office 365 Deployment Phases
   2. Office 365 Deployment Schedule
2. Plan phase
   1. Key activities
   2. Office 365 Enterprise License Plans
   3. Office 365 Administration roles
   4. Exchange Hybrid Solution Infrastructure overview picture
   5. High Level Tasks For Exchange Hybrid Deployment
3. Prepare phase
   1. Key activities
   2. Update schema for Exchange 2010 :
      cd c:\exchangeserver2010sp1 and then setup /preparead
   3. Office 365 ports, ips and urls
   4. Exchange Hybrid Deployment Domain and Host Names Worksheet
   5. Configure SSO with ADFS:
      Connect-MsolService –Credential $cred
      Set-MsolAdfscontext -Computer <AD FS 2.0 primary server>
      New-MsolFederatedDomain –DomainName <domain>
   6. Configure dirsync (separate server and when less than
      50.000 objects SQL 2008 Express will do).
   7. Mail migration types and explanation E-mail migration overview (virtual labs)
4. Migrate phase
   1. Key activities
   2. Post-deployment services testing plan

Resources used as preparation

• Blog’in I.T: Office 365 Exam Revision Notes
• Prepare for Office 365 for education
• Transition center
• Exam 70-321 info
• Exam 70-323 info
• Office 365 Trial 30 days
• Office 365 User Tour
• Office 365 Admin Tour
• Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime
• Office 365 Guides for professionals and small businesses
• Office 365 jumpstart
• Office 365 Techcenter
• Office 365 Edge
• Office 365 Youtube channel
• Office 365 Blog
• Office 365 Community
• Office 365: Collaboration in the Cloud
• Office 365 requirements
• Office 365 Deployment Guide For Enterprises
• Office 365 for enterprise service descriptions
• Office 365 Deployment
• Office Professional Plus for Office 365
• Office 365 Help
• Office 365 Powershell commands
• Other ways to get started with Office 365 for professionals and small businesses
• Other ways to get started with Office 365 for Enterprise
• Service Updates for Office 365
• MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit
• Office 365 Tools and Diagnostics Wiki
• Security and compliance in Office 365
• Troubleshooting Exchange ActiveSync in Exchange Online for Office 365
• Transitioning SharePoint Online from Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) to Office 365