Videos not covering enough detail?

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I've just finished watching one of the Microsoft (70-697) courses and done a few practise exams. Unfortunately I'm only getting around 30% on the tests. What I've found is that the videos have hardly covered the required topics...

I understand that I shouldn't put all my eggs in one basket for study, this was just to get me warmed up and touch on all the subjects. However, I still would have thought that the videos would cover at least 60% of the exam material. I'm really shocked that from doing the measureup tests, the videos either completely missed out things, or didn't go into enough detail. Where are all the powershell commands?

Got the official book on it's way, I was hoping this would cover the last 20-30% of the exam material so I can pass, but it looks like it's going to cover the majority of it.

Could it be because it's a new exam? I've heard one review of this exam as being way to broad - some standard windows setup questions, like networking, but combined with random server related questions that would sit well in the windows server exam.

By the way, the things that were taught, were taught very well.

Thoughts?

I haven't done this one in particular but what I would say based on my experience of other courses is that if an existing course covers the material then quite often you're encouraged to refer to the relevant module of another course for detailed content rather than them recreating it and doubling up, e.g. there's a separate powershell course and for networking stuff check out networking+ (or depending upon your level A+ first). Hope that helps, good luck with your studies.

Thanks Michala. I'll take a look at the other similar/relating materials.

@Morgan-Price,

We used the available exam objectives at the time and have covered them thoroughly. You're right though, you cannot just watch the videos. If you'll take a look at the official exam objectives. I believe you'll find we covered each and every one of the exam objectives in detail. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-70-697.aspx
That is what we based our shows on. According to that page ...

Who should take this exam?

This exam validates a candidate’s fundamental knowledge and skills for building solid identities, protection of content (data loss protection), mobile device management policy, virtualization with Hyper-V, application management using the Company Portal and the Windows Store. Candidates will be evaluated on Windows 10 security and integrated Azure features.
In addition to their professional experience, candidates who take this exam should already have the following technical knowledge:

Experience with

• Windows desktop administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting

• Basic experience and understanding of Windows networking technologies

• Introductory-level knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Intune

Candidates can take this exam and meet the prerequisites by obtaining equivalent knowledge and skills through practical experience as a Windows device support technician or a Windows device system administrator.

I can only say, having done some of those shows, we covered the exam objectives thoroughly. We did our material before any official book or anybody had any material out there. I will say that you'll find that we covered fairly in depth.

Hi Ronnie,

All I can say is that the MeasureUp exams require to know a lot more, including a lot of random exe's and powershell commands, something which the ITPro course doesn't hardly teach.

This is not a dig at the current content provided, the hosts were excellent and the way the content was taught was great. I'm going though all the content again and I'll do a MeasureUp retest before I start getting stuck into the book. I'll try and highlight anything that's completely missing.

Regarding my experience I have all the prerequisites except for InTune. I understand MeasureUp isn't Microsoft, but I assume it's a fair representation of the real test. I would have thought the course designer/host would have at least done the beta exam to really see what level of understanding is required?

@Morgan-Price,

Please also take a look at the exam objectives. If the exam objectives for Exam 70-697 mentioned it; we covered it. I cannot say that we covered the MeasureUp tests.

The hosts, myself included, do understand what is on the beta and cannot say, due to policies regarding the exam, what is on the exam nor are we supposed to teach the exam. What this means is that we would have covered the skills needed in the depth need to perform the task listed. We didn't cover what wasn't on the exam in any depth.

@Ronnie-Wong

Thanks Ronnie. I can only assume, that the MeasureUp tests are inadvertently harder than the real test. I've contacted Trancender to see when they are going to add the 70-697, so I can judge the depth of their questions.

I'm also hoping the exam comes out of beta before new year, that way the "second shot" offer will still be active and If it is harder/similar to the MeasureUp tests I can get a free retest.

Thanks again for your help Ronnie!

In my opinion this is a problem with MS exams. The exam objectives are way to broad and all over the place. I will say for any MS exam at this point figure out how to do it with Powershell. Recently worked with some MS PFE's and they were all on the PS koolaid. Don't get me wrong I like PS and find it very useful but when you are paying a ton of money by the hour, spending 20 min looking up a PS command vs clicking a box in a GUI is a no brainer.

@Ralph-Dejesus

Thanks Ralph, after I've gone through the content again and through the book I'll look at related powershell commands.