Getting in to the mindset of the 70-557 exam
Having a fairly good lab in place and having played with the technologies, though I’d read the exam objects for Forefront 70-557
Exam topics covered
The following list includes the topics covered on this exam. The percentage indicates the portion of the exam that addresses a particular skill.
| • | Deploying client agents and policies (32 percent) |
| • | Configuring server products (34 percent) |
| • | Maintaining the infrastructure of the client and server (25 percent) |
| • | Monitoring protection status and activity (8 percent) |
It seems pretty straight forward, until I flipped back to the top section and notice the following gems:
The typical candidate should have knowledge of the following products and technologies:
| • | Active Directory |
| • | Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) |
| • | Microsoft SQL Server 2005 |
| • | Microsoft Operations Manager |
| • | Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 |
| • | Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 |
| • | Microsoft Live Communication Server |
| • | Instant Messenger security |
Okay, WSUS, MOM and AD are fair game, I can also understand the SQL 2005 part, but lumping in Exchange, SharePoint and live communications server in to the exam?
Yes, these products need protection, but surely they if they are part of the exam, shouldn’t a section exist in the skills measured section? A quick bit of searching on the net has confirmed my fears. Ms has left out the study topic, but included both the Exchange and SharePoint parts in the exam. Server Protection..Forefront™ Server Security Products
Hold on…. could Configuring server products (34 percent) actually mean cover those two options as well?
Oh yes it does. Delightful. Glad the folks the write the exams give us a the full story on what we should study for ….
I know that separate software exists for protecting Exchange and SharePoint which is under the Forefront banner, so I guess it time to kill another tree and print out the documentation of both those products.
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