70-410 and Powershell

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Hey guys

Working on my 70-410.I have a quick little rant...

I noticed that the videos explain the various objectives so far, but they lack on power shell.

I have the MeasureUP practice test for 70-410 and every single freaking question is about power sheel cmdlets, how to move an AD object, or etc.

Is this truly how the 70-410 exam is? What do these videos provide as far as power shell?

I mean its the first exam of 3, I did not expect to have to know power shells for installing and configuring Server 2012, I mean besides using DSC, or Features on demand sections. But damn I have to know power shell to work with active directory? Then why do all the study guides show you the damn GUI method versus the powershell cmdlets?

This is very frustrating. I feel I am wasting money, and spinning my wheels. I am watching the videos, doing virtual labs, but BARELY anything is done in command shell.

I am not new to this, I deal with servers and active directory every day, I have even dabbled in power shell for office 365 administration. But I feel like a complete idiot!

For example -

From measureUP's practice exam 70-410 -

You manage a server named Serve1 that runs Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role installed. You are planning to run a virtual machine named VM1 on Server1. You need to configure SR-IOV for vm1.

Which PowerShell cmdlet shouldyou use to enable SR-IOV?

I know how to do it in the god damn GUI. But My powershell is WEAAAK!!!

How do I, one that is very comfortable in Server 2012 / 2012 R2 get my PowerShell game up quick so I can get this shit rolling and take these exams?

@marc-salehpour,

We recorded the a series just on Powershell to help out. The exam objectives are a little low on details on what they require of powershell knowledge. But if you go to the techskills section of the course library you'll see a solid coverage on powershell skills that should help you in preparing for the Windows Server exams as well as work in the field!

As an aside, Episode 90 of Coding 101 on TWiT (recorded today, 2 Nov 2015) interviews several Microsoft PowerShell MVPs on how they started, the jobs they are in, and even some resources that Microsoft has for PowerShell.

The 70-410 has a lot of PS shell questions. A lot of How would you do this with least administrative effort. So it definitely pays to know what the PS commands do. My experience has been whenever I go over an objective to do it in PS then thru GUI then Command line and learn the limitations of each. I recall a bunch of Firewall and User management ? with PS

@Ronnie-Wong Ronny, you refer to the tech skills section of the course library - am I missing something? I don't see a tech skills section.

Doug

@Doug-Kasdorf,

If you click on Course Library at the top of our webpage, you can scroll down the page and find a link that's called Technical Skills. I was probably being lazy when I called it "tech skills" instead of it's proper identification. Sometimes, I get lazy! :)