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Besides your experience which helps you grasp and understand the content well , you must prepare dedicatedly for 100-120 Hours i.e. it can be  spread over 3 to 6 weeks  and last 2/3 days doing the MOCK tests.

PMBOK is good for reference on regular basis .You can follow one more book for compete study and understanding . I  Followed Rita's Exam preparation guide , and read most of the chapters twice . Also went through nearly all the Fast Track questions,

Besides that revised the PMStudy Tips and Tricks and completed the MOCK Test. MOCK Test is very important to make a habit to sit for 4 hours and get your 200 questions completed in 4 hours . You have to keep track of the time  dividing  every hour i.e. you must be competing more than 50  questions in every hour to complete your exam. loosing focus in any hour will lead you to struggle at the end .

Also do understand all the questions i.e. why  3 of the answers are wrong and why the one is correct. This really help you in answering the similar type of questions in exam. You may complete 10000 questions but , all the questions in exam will be new . However the pattern is mostly same i.e. if you have analyzed the questions even if you have worked on only 700 to 1000 questions but from all knowledge areas and have understood them well , you can clear those questions in exam easily.

Summary : If you are well prepared (  read the book twice , gone through questions in all Knowledge areas and Done couple of MOCK tests ) , then  you actually feel that you will clear the exam ( i.e. the questions become easy for you answer correctly). While giving exam , you feel that you are answering the questions correctly. And exam is easy to pass for those who are prepared.

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Tips :

Learn by heart the Tools and techniques used in all processes i.e. Sensitivity Analysis , Variance Analysis, Analogous Estimating , Delphi Technique, Pareto chart, Control chart and control Limits , Push / Pull communication methods, Understanding of Management Styles , Conflict resolving  techniques, Risk Sharing , Mitigation/Acceptance,  EVM Numericals, Contract Types , Ishikawa Diagram

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Following is the list of topics with which you should be faniliar and have some working knowldege on some of the products mentioned in each line  i..e. AD, ADFS, Exchange server ( latest version)

, Lync , DNS , Sharepoint latest version, Powershell 2.0, Office latest version, Intenet technologies / browsers , bandwith usage /optimization,  Certificates ,  Firewalll technologies /proxies  and many more related ones . Besides you should be familiar with Office 365 plans , offerings amd FAQs.

This is lots of stuff for  anybody .But you must be familiar with these things in relation to office 365  atleast .

In my upcoming posts , i shall provide resources and discussions on  how we can learn these mentioned topics in relation to office 365.

https://davidlozzi.com/2012/01/26/color-code-your-sharepoint-calendar/ 

its great help and it just works the same way in sharepoint 2013 on the cloud or on premises .

Amazing feature of calendar overlays .

Thanks to David Lozzi

Find IT pro-focused how-to training and walkthrough videos with this interactive course about SharePoint 2013 including changes and new features for search, social, plus deployment and performance/scalability.

Downloadable links for the presentations (.pptx) for each module are available later on this page. You can also download all presentations.

Important: These videos are based on an earlier preview version of SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013 so you might notice a few discrepancies

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp123606

New platforms and capabilities:

Shredded storage : Minimize actuila file size. Send only those changes which users are making and not complete doument to the server

SQL 2012 as DB server

App fabric caching -store informatio in farm level cache over all servers

request mgmt : to redirect request to sharepoint server to diiferent servers for load sharing or specifc servers with specific workloads

GUI modification options are enhanced and made easy :

Information sharing made easy and quick : more easily share sites ..

SA Arachitecture has reamined same and we take advanatage of alreday solid architecture

added few new SAs

Once change is that Office webappas is nota  SA now its a separate product and installed on separate server irrespective of sharepoint i.e. can be used by Documents in Exchange 15 , filesystem or Lync 15. Sharepoint is not a required component for office web apps.

Webanalytics is also now noa SA bu has been made part of serach itself  and can now better understand teh users queries made ofr ceratin keywords and of rspecific criteria , thsu analytics become more precise.

Lots of improvement on ECM perspective

Now we can ahve site l;evel retention policies to track whch site are acreated , how they are cleaned and track when they are deleted   and what workflows are executed once they are delted etc and also the retention policies can be imposed on mailboxes axssociated with site.Thus can arcahive the site at a arcahival location.

 Also discivery cases and hold s acan be crarted not only for site but for anything at obne single place.

We can export information from files sytem, , exchange or even sharepoint for legal holds or otherwise for information purpose.

Exchange 15 and shjarepoint 15 are tighly integrated .

Tere are some tjing called theme folders  and which stores documents opr emails and can be used either with sharepoint or owa or outlook to browse this info.

On WCM perspective , lots of improvements  i.e. you can use any tool for workflow or designining site which can understand HTML . as sharepoint pages uses HTML rendering approach . designer need not underatnd Sharepoint to modify theier site , as its supports hTML rendering and these designers can use html templates to manipulate these site .they can alos iuse any HTMl i.e  HTML 5 . Anoter advantage is taht sharepoint pages for rendering webparts are not yusing table tags but using >Div> s for renndering web parts which make it easy for HTMl rendering.

variation shandling : support for content translation. Individual label owners can see changes on master site and message translation can take plae in sharepoint . Translation happens in cloud based servive=ce nd integrated into sharoiint sites

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