Saturday, March 10, 2018

70-705 Designing and Providing Microsoft Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations

70-705 Designing and Providing Microsoft Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations

Published: October 19, 2017
Languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Russian, Spanish
Audiences: IT Professionals
Technology: License Management
Credit toward certification: MCP

Skills measured
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Recommend the appropriate technology solution (60-65%)
Evaluate the gap between the current and future technology solution
Identify the customer's short-term and long-term technology vision; identify a solution that would meet the customer requirements; choose between on-premises software, Online Services, or a combination of both.
Determine the required products and product licensing rights for the customer's on-premises solution
Identify product features and functions; list dependencies; recommend editions and versions; describe product licensing in both physical and virtual environments; recommend activation solutions; describe how to acquire software; choose the appropriate products, including Windows Server 2016, System Center 2016, SQL Server 2016, Skype for Business Server 2015, Exchange Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2016, Dynamics 365 On-Premises Server, Windows 10, and Office 2016.
Determine the required products and product licensing rights for the customer's Online Services solution
Identify product features and functions; list dependencies; recommend plans; recommend Step-up, From SA, or Add-on User Software Licenses (SLs); advise on use of Office 365 portal; choose the appropriate products, including Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365.
Determine the required products and product licensing rights for the customer's Azure solution
Identify consumption services and Azure Plans; recommend solutions using the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit or License Mobility through SA; recommend Azure Enterprise Portal and Azure Management Portal to manage resources, consumption and spend.

Recommend the Appropriate Software Assurance Benefits (10-15%)
Leverage Software Assurance (SA) benefits for customer solutions
Identify benefits such as License Mobility across server farms, unlimited virtualization rights, Virtual Desktop Access, and Step-up licenses.
Assist the customer with SA benefit activation
Activate and manage training vouchers, Home Use Program, Planning Services, and 24x7 Problem Resolution Support.

Recommend a licensing solution (20-25%)
Select the appropriate licensing programs
Determine the customer’s software environment, including software deployment plans and strategy for on-premises, cloud or hybrid solutions, current Microsoft licensing agreements, geographic scope, budget requirements, payment options, expected growth, and purchasing process; recommend programs such as Enterprise Agreement, Enterprise Subscription Agreement, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), MPSA, and crossover with Open and Open Value programs.
Identify product licensing rights
Choose between OEM and volume licensing; explain the benefits of volume licensing, including license reassignment, downgrade rights, and reimaging rights.


QUESTION 1 - (Topic 1)
A customer licenses all its deuces for Windows 10 Enterprise E3, Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016, and Microsoft Core CAL Suite. All the licenses are covered with active Software Assurance (SA).
The customer wants to deliver virtual desktops that run Windows 10 Enterprise and Office Professional Plus 2016 to its users. The licensing solution must ensure that the customer can run virtual desktops in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) hosted in Microsoft Hyper-V.
Which additional license should the customer acquire for the devices?

A. a Windows Server Remote Desktop Services CAL
B. a Windows VDA license
C. a Windows Server CAL
D. a VDI Suite license

Answer: B


QUESTION 2 - (Topic 1)
A customer has Windows Server Datacenter licenses that have active Software Assurance (SA).
The customer plans to migrate Windows Server workloads to Microsoft Azure.
You need to identify which benefits support the planned migration.
Which two benefits should you identify? Each correct answers presents part of solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Azure Hybrid Benefit
B. License Mobility through SA
C. Self-Hosted rights
D. License Mobility Across Server Farms
E. Planning Services

Answer: A,B


QUESTION 4 - (Topic 1)
A customer needs a combination of the fallowing User Subscription Licenses (USLs):
• Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 From SA
• Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise E5 Add-on
• Office 365 Enterprise E3 Step-Up
What are two possible programs through which the customer can purchase the licenses? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Select Plus
B. Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA)
C. Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)
D. Enterprise Agreement Subscription
E. Enterprise Agreement (EA)

Answer: A,D


QUESTION 5 - (Topic 1)
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.
A customer has 2,000 users.
The customer needs to buy Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3 User Subscription Licenses (USLs) for all the users. Additionally, the customer must purchase licenses covered with Software Assurance (SA) on an as-needed basis for products such as Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
Solution: The customer purchases the licenses through an Open agreement.
Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes
B. No

Answer: A

Thursday, March 8, 2018

2VB-602 VMware Specialist: vRealize Operations 6.x Badge Exam

Minimally Qualified Candidate
The Minimally Qualified Candidate (MQC) is a conceptualization of the certification candidate that possesses the minimum knowledge, skills, experience, and competence to just meet our expectations of a
credentialed individual.

The MQC achieving the VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist Badge is capable of vRealize Operations deployment, ongoing maintenance and administration, capacity management, basic troubleshooting and alerting, solution customizations with reports and dashboards and solution extensibility through End-

Point Operations and management packs. This can be obtained through either the vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage class or through hands-on experience with vRealize Operations in their own environment.

The MQC understands virtualization concepts and is aware of VMware products, underlying technologies, and solutions. The MQC is familiar with VMware solution domains (including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize Suite, Horizon 7 Suite, etc.).

vRealize Operations Manager User Interface inventory trees
Dashboard Navigation
Environment page vRealize Operations Manager Concepts
Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations Manager
Troubleshooting System Health Issues
Use views to gather information about the environment
Discuss vRealize Operations badges–
Discuss the process for troubleshooting system health issues with dashboards
Troubleshoot system health issues with Alerts, Symptoms and Recommendations
Discuss Automated Action Framework
Capacity Planning
Discuss capacity planning models
Assess capacity risk in the environment
Troubleshoot risk and efficiency issues
Identify ways to optimize resource utilization in the environment
Use projects to perform what - if scenarios
Tags, Application Groups, and Custom Object Groups–
Use tags and applications to group objects
Create custom groups and CDCs in the environment Policies
Understand policy components and what can be changed in policies
Purposely omitted
Explain how policy inheritance works
Intelligent Workload Placement
Use workload placement to rebalance workloads across the environment
Identify scenarios that would benefit from workload placement
Custom Alerts
Create symptom definitions
Create recommendations and use actions
Create notifications
Create alert definitions
Custom Views and Reports
Describe the various types of views
Create views
Create reports
Custom Dashboards
Create custom dashboards
Configure widgets and widget interactions
Configure dashboard navigation
Manage dashboards
Super Metrics
Create super metrics
User Access Control
Create local users and user groups
Assign roles to local users and groups Import users and user groups from an LDAP source
Operating System and Application Monitoring
Deploy EPOps operating system and application monitoring
Monitor operating systems and applications
Management Packs
Describe the components of a management pack and the value they deliver (extensibility)
Install and configure a management pack
Architecture, Scalability, and Availability
Describe the components of a vRealize Operations Manager node
Describe the roles in a vRealize Operations Manager cluster.3
Explain how a node’s components interact to achieve scalability and availability
Deploying vRealize Operations Manager
Determine how to size a vRealize
Operations Manager cluster
Install and configure a vRealize Operations Manager cluster
Monitor and manage a vRealize Operations Manager cluster

Earlier this week a new blog post was released by VMware Professional Services and Education Insights detailing New Digital Badges which were available for vSAN and vRealize Operations.

Here is the official description of a VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist:

The VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist is a technical professional who plans, manages and helps scale software-defined data center (SDDC) and multi-cloud environments through unified monitoring, automated performance management, cloud planning and capacity optimization. The badge holder helps organizations streamline and automate IT operations from applications to infrastructure across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

As I primarily work on vRealize Operations with customers and hold the title of Technical Lead for vRealize Operations – EMEA in my day job at VMware, I decided to take the qualifying exam in order to obtain the digital badge but also to help backup my existing knowledge of the product.
Eligibility + Preparation

In order to be eligible for the Specialist designation you must hold a current VCP6 or later across any solution track (DCV, CMA, NV).

To prepare for the exam, you should have a good understanding of vRealize Operations and know your way extensively around the product in order to have the best chance of success. If you do not have good experience with vROps you are recommended to take the VMware vRealize Operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.2] course.

As with other exams, your 1st point of call should be the Exam Preparation Guide (EPG) which details the objectives and areas of the product which you should focus on.

Note: The exam focuses on all versions of vRealize Operations up to and including 6.5, however it DOES not have any content around 6.6 at this time.
Exam Format

The exam is delivered online so you do not need to visit a Testing Center like with other exams, this meant I was able to set aside a few hours and sit the exam which was convenient. To pass the exam you have to get a score of over 300 as with all other VMware exams.

The exam consisted of 60 questions and I had around 2 hours to complete them. The exam topics for the most part matched the EPG objectives however there were a few curve-balls which required a bit more thought.

I am happy to say I passed the exam and am just waiting for my digital badge from Acclaim to be released so I can share this across my social media platforms
QUESTION 1
Which process can help reduce resource over-allocation in the environment? (Choose the best answer.)

A. Investigating and acting upon the ‘Virtual Machine quest file systems are running out of disk space’ alerts
B. Investigating and acting upon the vSphere Hardening alerts
C. Running the Network Traffic by VM report and taking action based on this data
D. Running the Oversized VM report and taking action based on this data

Answer: D

QUESTION 2
When a management pack is added to vRealize Operations, does the inventory tree reflect the addition of the management pack? (Choose the best answer.)

A. Yes, if the inventory tree is updated manually
B. Yes; the inventory tree is updated automatically
C. No; the inventory tree is a static, hard-coded entity
D. The inventory tree can only be updated through professional services

Answer: B

QUESTION 3
What is the maximum supported number of analytic nodes in a single vRealize Operations cluster? (Choose the best answer.)

A. 16
B. 8
C. 32
D. 64

Answer: B

Explanation:

QUESTION 4
How can all available views be accessed in vRealize Operations? (Choose the best answer.)

A. From the Reports tab under Content
B. From the Home tab under Views
C. From the Administration tab under Global Settings
D. From the Content tab under Views

Answer: D


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Sunday, March 4, 2018

CompTIA Security+ Recertification Exam

Recertify with a CompTIA Recertification Exam
The CompTIA Recertification Exam Series bridges the content gap between the exam that you passed and the exam objectives of the most current release.

Overview and Eligibility
You are eligible to take a CompTIA recertification exam if you passed an earlier version and your certification has not expired.

If you are eligible to take the recertification exam, CompTIA will automatically notify you via email and provide you with a Private Access Code (PAC).
CompTIA recertification exams are online exams that you may take from anywhere with an internet connection, as long as your system meets the minimum requirements.
Online recertification exams are available for the following CompTIA certifications:

CompTIA A+ Recertification Exam
CompTIA Network+ Recertification Exam
CompTIA Security+ Recertification Exam
CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) Recertification Exam

What You Need to Know
Timing: Once you register for your exam, you have 45 days to complete it. You must pass the CompTIA recertification exam during your three-year renewal cycle.
Relevance: The exam must match the CompTIA certification you are renewing. If you hold higher-level CompTIA certifications, you will want to review your options to renew the highest level that you have, as it will automatically renew qualifying lower-level CompTIA certifications.
Documentation: After passing the exam, CompTIA will automatically renew your certification. You will not need to submit further documentation.
CE Fees: The CE fees are waived if you pass a recertification exam. CompTIA recertification exams follow the same policies as full CompTIA exams.

CompTIA Security+ Recertification Exam Details
Exam Codes RC0-501
Launch Date December 5, 2017
Eligibility Candidates MUST have:

An active Security+ CE certification earned by passing exam SY0-401 or earlier.
Received an email from CompTIA containing a Private Access Code (PAC).

Exam Description The Security Recertification Exam covers these domains:

1.0 Threats, Attacks and Vulnerabilities (12% of total)
2.0 Technologies and Tools (43% of total)
3.0 Architecture and Design (9% of total)
4.0 Identity and Access Management (27% of total)
5.0 Cryptography and PKI (9% of total)

Recertification Exam Objectives Download
Number of Questions 35
Type of Questions Multiple Choice questions (single and multiple response)
Length of Test 75 Minutes
Passing Score 750 (on a scale of 100-900)
Delivery Non-proctored Pearson IBT
CEU Impact

Only candidates with an active Security+ CE certification will receive CEU credit.
Passing the exam will automatically renew your existing Security+ CE. Please allow 1-3 days for your record to be updated.

QUESTION 1
An incident responder receives a call from a user who reports a computer is exhibiting symptoms consistent with a malware infection. Which of the following steps should the responder perform NEXT?

A. Capture and document necessary information to assist in the response.
B. Request the user capture and provide a screenshot or recording of the symptoms.
C. Use a remote desktop client to collect and analyze the malware in real time.
D. Ask the user to back up files for later recovery.

Answer: C

QUESTION 2
When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility? (Select two.)

A. USB-attached hard disk
B. Swap/pagefile
C. Mounted network storage
D. ROM
E. RAM

Answer: A,D

QUESTION 3
A company’s user lockout policy is enabled after five unsuccessful login attempts. The help desk notices a user is repeatedly locked out over the course of a workweek. Upon contacting the user, the help desk discovers the user is on vacation and does not have network access. Which of the following types of attacks are MOST likely occurring? (Select two.)

A. Replay
B. Rainbow tables
C. Brute force
D. Pass the hash
E. Dictionary

Answer: D,E

QUESTION 4
As part of a new industry regulation, companies are required to utilize secure, standardized OS settings. A technical must ensure the OS settings are hardened. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?

A. Use a vulnerability scanner.
B. Use a configuration compliance scanner.
C. Use a passive, in-line scanner.
D. Use a protocol analyzer.

Answer: A

QUESTION 5
A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all traffic to the FTP server is unencrypted.
Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modern FTP client software.
The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted connections.
Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?

A. Require the SFTP protocol to connect to the file server.
B. Use implicit TLS on the FTP server.
C. Use explicit FTPS for connections.
D. Use SSH tunneling to encrypt the FTP traffic.

Answer: C