SharePoint Saturday St Louis - Exam Cram - 70-667 Neil Sly

1. Exam Cram for Exam 70-
667: Microsoft SharePoint
2010, Configuring
Neil Sly @nrs
http://neilsly.com
MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
MCITP: SharePoint 2010
ITIL
VCP

2. Neil Sly
• http://sly.us
• @nrs
• neilsly@gmail.com

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5. Session Evaluations
• Schedule and evaluate each session you attend via our
mobile app that can be used across devices at
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• You will be able to evaluate sessions added to your “My
Sessions” 25 minutes before the scheduled end time
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6. What we’ll cover today

8. Microsoft Certifications
Legacy Solution/cloud focus
Microsoft Certified
Microsoft Certified
Solutions Master
Master (MCM)
Master
(MCSM)
Microsoft Certified
Microsoft Certified
Information
Solutions Expert
Technology Pro
(MCSE)
Expert (MCITP)
Microsoft Certified Microsoft Certified
Technology Specialist Solutions Associate
(MCTS) (MCSA)
Associat
e

9. SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure
Certifications
Exam 70-667
MCTS:
Microsoft SharePoint
SharePoint 2010
2010
Configuration
Configuring
MCITP:
Exam 70-668
SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint
2010
2010, Administrator
Administrator

10. SharePoint 2013 Certifications
70-410 Installing & Configuring
Windows Server 2012
70-411 Administering Window Server
2012
70-412 Configuring Advanced
Windows 2012 Services
70-331 Core Solutions of Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2013
70-332 Advanced Solutions of
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

12. Check the Exam Guide
• Skills Measured Tab
• Focus studying
• Topic Weighting
TIP #1: 80/80 Rule
Exam tests you on features used by 80% of
users 80% of the time
TIP #2: The exams tend to focus on features
that were new to 2010 when it was released

13. SKILLS MEASURED BY EXAM 70-
667(MCTS)
Objective Percentage
Installing and Configuring a SharePoint Environment 25
Managing a SharePoint Environment 26
Deploying and Managing Applications 24
Maintaining a SharePoint Environment 25

14. Answering Exam Questions
Questions will be specific
• Right answer is 100% right
• Wrong answers will not work
In general
• Go for simplicity
Things to look out for:
• Exceptions to the rule
• Doesn’t meet requirements

15. STUDY RESOURCES
• Practice Exams
• MSDN
• TechNet
• MSPress Books
• Other Books
• Blogs

16. Study Resources …

17. Study Resources

18. Exam Tips
• Set a date
Before the Exam • Set small goals
• Sleep well
• Don’t panic
During the Exam • Keep an eye on time
• Don’t spend too long on one question
• Eliminate wrong answers
Tough Question • Mark the question for review
• Guess

20. Installing and Configuring a
SharePoint Environment (25 percent)
• Deploy new installations and upgrades.
• Configure SharePoint farms.
• Configure service applications.
• Configure indexing and search.

21. Managing a SharePoint Environment
(26 percent)
• Manage operational settings.
• Manage accounts and user roles.
• Manage authentication providers.

22. Deploying and Managing Applications
(24 percent)
• Manage Web Applications.
• Manage site collections.
• Deploy and manage SharePoint solutions.

23. Maintaining a SharePoint
Environment (25 percent)
• Back up and restore a SharePoint
environment.
• Monitor and analyze a SharePoint
environment.
• Optimize the performance of a SharePoint
environment.

24. Installing and Configuring a
SharePoint Environment (25 percent)
• Deploy new installations and upgrades.
• visual upgrades, in-place upgrades, db attach, preupgradecheck,
language packs, scripting installs, installation error logs
• Configure SharePoint farms.
• Inter-server comms, server roles, HA, AAM, host headers and
patching
• Configure service applications.
• BCS, Access, Visio, Performance Point, UPA, Excel Services, IPFS
• Configure indexing and search.
• FAST, crawl schedules, iFilters, crawl rules, content sources, scopes,
managed properties, content types, search components
FOR ON PREM OR SHAREPOINT ONLINE

25. Managing a SharePoint Environment
(26 percent)
• Manage operational settings.
• Logging, quotas, monitoring, health reports, SSRS integration
• Manage accounts and user roles.
• User accounts, groups, managed accounts, computer accounts,
service accounts, site collection admins, external user policy
• Manage authentication providers.
• NTLM, Claims, Kerberos, claims based and forms based auth,
Secure Store, ADFS, SSO
FOR ON PREM OR SHAREPOINT ONLINE

26. Deploying and Managing Applications
(24 percent)
• Manage Web Applications.
• Managing databases, web app settings, security and policies
• Manage site collections.
• Site collection policies, features, caching, auditing, site collection
security, multi-tenancy, site collection quotas and locks, adding
a domain to Office 365, and SharePoint Online public websites
• Deploy and manage SharePoint solutions.
• Deploying and managing solutions, managing sandbox
solutions, managing user solutions
FOR ON PREM OR SHAREPOINT ONLINE

27. Maintaining a SharePoint
Environment (25 percent)
• Back up and restore a SharePoint environment.
• Backup settings, backing up and restoring: content - search –
service app dbs, detaching and re-attaching dbs, exporting lists
and sites
• Monitor and analyze a SharePoint environment.
• Generating health – administrative and web analytics reports,
usage and trace logs, identifying and resolving health and
reporting issues
• Optimize the performance of a SharePoint
environment.
• Resource throttling, blob storage, object caching, optimizing
services
FOR ON PREM OR SHAREPOINT ONLINE

28. DESIGNING SHAREPOINT
IMPLEMENTATIONS
Farm
• Collection of servers
• Shared configuration database
Web Application
• Plugs into IIS Web Site
• Port number
• Hostname
• IP Address
• Authentication

29. Farm
Servers
Web Front End, APP
Web and Service Applications
Central Admin, Content, Search, Metadata
Databases
Content, Config, Service Application
Site Collections
The Bag
Webs
Portal, Wikis, Blogs, Team, Doc, Workspaces, Search Center
Lists
Doc Lib, Pages, Events, Discussions, Surveys, etc…
Items
Files, calendar items, contacts, customers, images, custom

30. DESIGNING SHAREPOINT
IMPLEMENTATIONS
Site Collection (SPSite)
• Security context
• Navigation boundary
• Quotas
• Features
Site (SPWeb)
• Security context
• Features
Tip: Make sure you know the
difference between the two!

31. QUESTION
You need to create a site structure to support multiple offices worldwide.
Each office must have a separate quota enforced. How should you
implement the structure?
A. Create a web application for each office
B. Create a site for each office
C. Create a site collection for each office
D. Create a site for each office. Create event receivers for ItemAdding,
ItemUpdating and ItemDeleting. Determine the size of each item being
added and store that in a private database. When the collective size
exceeds the quota send an email to the administrator to disable the
site.

32. ANSWER
You need to create a site structure to support multiple offices worldwide.
Each office must have a separate quota enforced. How should you
implement the structure?
A. Create a web application for each office
B. Create a site for each office
C. Create a site collection for each office
D. Create a site for each office. Create event receivers for ItemAdding,
ItemUpdating and ItemDeleting. Determine the size of each item being
added and store that in a private database. When the collective size
exceeds the quota send an email to the administrator to disable the
site.

33. Question
Your organization is creating a public facing web presence with SharePoint
2010. The HR department needs to create job postings. You need to ensure a
consistent structure for every posting. What should you do?
A. Train your HR department to use SharePoint Designer and direct them to
use the tool to create new pages.
B. Create a web part page. Add a custom web part that the HR department
will use to add new job posting.
C. Create a master page for job postings. Direct the HR department to
create all job postings in SharePoint Designer using this custom page.
D. Create a new page layout for job postings. Direct the HR department to
create new pages in the SharePoint UI by using the new page layout.

34. Answer
Your organization is creating a public facing web presence with SharePoint
2010. The HR department needs to create job postings. You need to ensure a
consistent structure for every posting. What should you do?
A. Train your HR department to use SharePoint Designer and direct them to
use the tool to create new pages.
B. Create a web part page. Add a custom web part that the HR department
will use to add new job posting.
C. Create a master page for job postings. Direct the HR department to
create all job postings in SharePoint Designer using this custom page.
D. Create a new page layout for job postings. Direct the HR department to
create new pages in the SharePoint UI by using the new page layout.

35. Authentication Mechanisms
Forms based authentication
• Cross browser and firewall support
• Any backend data store
Claims based authentication
• Integration with non-Windows authentication
NTLM
• Does not support delegation
Kerberos
• Supports delegation
Single Sign-On
• Supports shared credentials
Know when to use each

36. Resources
Blogs:
Manage site collections.
• Deploy and manage SharePoint solutions.

37. Session Evaluations
• Schedule and evaluate each session you attend via our
mobile app that can be used across devices at
http://spsaturday. azurewebsites.net
• You will be able to evaluate sessions added to your “My
Sessions” 25 minutes before the scheduled end time
• Evaluations are stored anonymously and your feedback is
appreciated
• The app will be the only method available to submit session
evaluations for the event and we hope you find it intuitive and
convenient 37 | SharePoint Saturday St. Louis 2013