Hyper-V Exam 70-652 beta

Ok, so earlier this week I sat the Hyper-V beta exam.  Beta exams are a full suite of questions, in this case 75 questions which are then used to determine the question set for the official exams.   You don't find out how you went until the results of all beta exam participants are collated and a pass mark is determined  but I felt I went ok.

 The questions were a pretty fair set of questions that tested your knowledge of installing Hyper-V, creating and deploying Virtual machines, and using System Center Virtual machine Manager (SCVMM) to manage them.   There were no tricky or obscure scenarios so if you know how to get Hyper-V and SCVMM 2008 (beta available) happening then your should find it pretty reasonable.  I would definately recommend you have a go at it if you are involved with virtualization.

 There is a preparation study guide at https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/70-652.mspx which gives a pretty good indication of what will be tested so make sure you understand the usage and relevance of all the aspects of the technologies mentioned in that guide.   Pay particular attention to Clustering/Quick Migration requirements, make sure you understand how to use snapshots and be familiar with what you can do with Authorization Manager.   I would recommend that even if you don't have sufficient hardware available to you to build a multinode cluster at least build a single node cluster just so you know what's involved.  Adding a second node is pretty trivial anyway but you would benefit by knowing the process of failing over (Quick Migration) a VM from one node to another.  There are plenty of good blogs around to help you with setting up a Hyper-V cluster in particular one from Robert Larson https://blogs.technet.com/roblarson/archive/2007/12/17/building-a-host-cluster-with-hyper-v-beta-1.aspx

Install it, learn it and test it.  That's as hard as it gets.