Hannah Swain on May 25, 2011 at 3:10 am

Thank you, this was very useful!
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Kim Friis Laursen on August 6, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Did you pass, and was the prep covering?
;0)
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- Wes Hackett on August 7, 2011 at 11:12 am
  
  Hi Kim,
  
  Yeah I passed 🙂
  
  The guide should cover everything in enough detail to get a strong pass.
  
  Cheers,
  
  Wes
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Mary Myers-Devlugt on August 11, 2011 at 1:31 pm

Great guide – I passed beta too.
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- Mamta on September 26, 2011 at 1:46 pm
  
  hey Mary,
  
  i am going to appear for the exam this week.Can you please let me know the type of questions in the exam it would be great help.I have read the guide but do i need to practice alot on the environment ??
  
  thanks,
  
  mamta
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Kevin Edwards on August 24, 2011 at 12:44 am

Thanks Wes

No book out for this yet so very handy.
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Adam on August 28, 2011 at 3:27 am

Thanks for sharing this information Wes.

I’ve never sat a MS exam before so could you please tell me how the exam is structured please?

Thanks again!
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- Wes Hackett on August 30, 2011 at 12:37 am
  
  The exam is a mixture of scenario and multiple choice questions. The multiple choice questions present four options to answer the posed question. The scenario based questions present a ‘real’ SharePoint environment to navigate around to perform the tasks. When in the scenarios be sure to read the task instructions carefully as sometimes the required action may need you to navigate to the page/site before performing the action. Also as SharePoint contains many ways to perform actions (like create a page) be sure to try another one if you find the option greyed out.
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Mamta on September 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm

hi,

I am preparing for the exam..Can i get the sample paper online??

I did the training course as well.So the type of questions training material has..will it be same in the exam

thanks,

mamta
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- Wes Hackett on September 1, 2011 at 11:55 pm
  
  Hi Mamta,
  
  Due to the nature of this exam being mainly scenario based I would suggest following the guide and practicing with a SharePoint 2010 environment should be enough. Microsoft provide a pre-built environment you can download from here: IW VM Download which should help if you don’t have access to an environment.
  
  I actually think the scenrio based approach as a good thing to reduce the number of ‘cram and remember’ style PassMark type answer sheets produced, this leads to a memory based pass but not real depth in product knowledge.
  
  Cheers,
  
  Wes
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  - Richard Kraneis on August 1, 2013 at 8:47 am
    
    Wes,
    
    That download link you provided no longer exists for a practice environment.
    
    Richard
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- Mikey on September 6, 2011 at 6:40 am
  
  Hey Mamta, what training course? Is there a decent SP reference book you could recommend?
  Thanks
  Mikey
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Mamta on September 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm

Thanks alot Wes for the information.Even I was thinking how i am going to remember the stuff mentioned in the links.There is so much to remember and everytime i read something i forget about the previous one :).I will download and will practice more on the environment.I have Sharepoint foundation 2010 which has limited features as compare to Sharepoint server 2010.
I hope it would help me to clear my exams.

thanks,

mamta
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Mikey on September 6, 2011 at 6:39 am

Wes, your info and guide looks very interesting – thanks hero! Before I go into learning for the exam, am I right that this exam requires only proficiency in the SP web editor environment and nothing to do with Designer/Visual Studio?
Cheers, Mikey
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- Wes Hackett on September 6, 2011 at 2:08 pm
  
  Hi Mikey,
  
  This exam covers all the topics that the ‘average’ SP2010 end user would need to know. There are one or two questions about things liked Managed Metadata (the admin screens) but i don’t recall anything SPD related.
  
  Certainly NOTHING code/development based.
  
  Cheers,
  
  Wes
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  - Mikey on October 26, 2011 at 9:38 am
    
    Hi Wes,
    I’m working through your study guide and found a reference to SPD. In http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepoint-server-help/enable-users-to-rate-content-HA101791797.aspx
    section: Add ratings to a page layout of a publishing page (“you must have…..Sharepoint Designer 2010..”)
    
    No problem however, I have it, will be interesting to see if I can navigate around though!
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    - Wes Hackett on October 26, 2011 at 9:43 am
      
      Yeah I’m not sure that SPD will come up in the exam questions as that could be classed as power user or even a dev topic.
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- Mamta on September 20, 2011 at 4:49 pm
  
  Hi Mikey,
  
  Have you appeared for the Exam :77-886 ??
  
  thanks,
  
  mamta
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  - Mikey on October 24, 2011 at 8:10 am
    
    No, not yet
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Mamta on September 6, 2011 at 1:49 pm

Hi Wes,

where can i register for exams ??

thanks,

mamta
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- Wes Hackett on September 6, 2011 at 2:09 pm
  
  Most MS exam centres will probably provide the exam, I used the CertPoint link http://www.certiport.com/Portal/Pages/LocatorView.aspx
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  - Mamta on September 30, 2011 at 11:37 am
    
    hey wes,
    
    Do we have to buy MOS Voucher to appear for the exam ??
    
    let me know asap.
    
    It would be great help.
    
    thanks,
    
    mamta
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Mamta on September 15, 2011 at 9:01 pm

Hi Was,

the link you have shared with me on IVM download is no longer available ..Can you share any other link if you have information on the same ??

thanks,

mamta
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Julio on November 3, 2011 at 10:13 am

Hi Wes,

Thanks so much for the additional resources for this exam as I will be preparing to take this exam.

Do you know if this exam is still in Beta?
Thanks for your time.

-Julio
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- Wes Hackett on November 3, 2011 at 1:32 pm
  
  The exam is now fully available. Several of my company recently sat it and confirmed that the learning material is still valid.
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Gissing on October 6, 2012 at 5:53 am

Thank you for your help! I don’t know if it will work.

I must say that I just didn’t succed the test. And I am now going to retake it.

I did read the MOS study guide, and made all the excercises TWICE over a month. But the questions was almost everything else.

For example i had to insert a webpart I had never heard of, and that i couldn’t find! There were two there had a similar name, but not exactly that what they wanted.

And I had to do something at the Farm level, that I didn’t know what was either.

I would have prefered a test that was much more covered by the study-book. Otherwise how am I and others going to learn? I do not have access to Sharepoint other places than at a school I attend for the purpose.
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- Wes Hackett on November 27, 2012 at 1:11 pm
  
  Sorry to hear you haven’t found all the information useful in the guide. As you appreciate the SharePoint product is large and broad and the guide aimed to give people a core focus around those topics listed by Microsoft as the assessment criteria. As for access to a working SharePoint environment then i can point you to the MS Sales Demo http://mssalesdemos.com/DefaultAnonymous.aspx which has several virtual machines and scripts available to use.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  Wes
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Naga on January 21, 2013 at 1:37 am

Wow!!! Finally cleared the MOS SharePoint 2010 exam on 20th Jan 2013. It was kind of tricky and cleared it in the re-take exam!!!!

27 questions with 50 mins time
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- Wes Hackett on March 17, 2013 at 3:24 am
  
  Congrats 😀
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Gabriel Marcondes on April 11, 2013 at 4:13 pm

Thanks, Wes!

Helped me a lot.
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