Keep your PMP fresh with PDUs

July 23, 2010 at 4:11 pm | Posted in Certification Paths, PMI | Leave a comment
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Now that you have that PMP credential framed in gold and proudly mounted over your mantle, you are probably interested in maintaining it. Having undergone the extensive application process the first time, you’d be loathe to have your certification expire and begin the application all over, not to mention the stress of taking the exam again. As with most things in life, it’s not just the achievement that matters, but also maintaining it for the long run.

Every three years, you will need to renew your PMP credential (unless you fall into the partial year extension outlined by PMP). If you forget to do so (like I did recently), then you will be suspended from the program for up to one year. During that year you cannot associate the PMP logo with your name, but you can still earn credits towards its renewal. After a year, you will lose the PMP credential completely and must re-apply and take the certification exam again.

There was an easy way for me to avoid the hassle of having my certification expire. If you read on, I’ll share the secret.

First, a quick background review. For any PMP certification holder to renew, you will need to participate in PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) Program. Adhering to the CCR Program means that you earn the required number of Professional Development Units (PDUs) and pay a renewal fee ($60 for PMI members, $150 for everyone else).  PMP certification requires 60 PDUs be earned in the three-year certification cycle.

A single PDU represents 60 minutes spent in learning, teaching, planning or executing a discipline in a structured project management environment. Although PMI provides an exhaustive list of all twelve types of PDU activity, here are some of the most common categories:

  • Formal Academic Education: Taking classes with a curricula that meet PMI standards for project management.
  • Self-Directed learning: Non-official learning sources, such as sessions with co-workers or reading books on project management. You can earn 9% of your PDU requirement through self-study, or 15 total PDUs.
  • Authoring or contributing to an article: Writing articles, white papers, or books that pertain to a project management discipline or best practice. Publishing in a refereed journal earns more PDUs than publishing in a non-refereed journal, but both will earn PDUs.
  • Speaker, panel member or instructor: Providing official training on a topic related to a project management discipline or best practice.
  • Project management practitioner: Actually practicing project management is considered on-the-job training. Any project-related activity you perform, including planning, execution, and evaluation, can be submitted for up to 15 PDUs (9% of your total required PDUs) for the three-year cycle.
  • Volunteer officer or committee member at a not-for-profit organization: That’s right, as long as there is some project management activity, you can do good work and earn up to 20 PDUs. And what volunteer organization do you know of that doesn’t engage in project management to some degree?

Each of these PDU categories can count towards renewal, but as I mentioned above, there are some PDU limits in each renewal cycle. For detailed information, consult the following resources:

How do you report these PDUs? PMI makes it easy, both on their website and within your PMI transcript.

  • From the PMI website, download the PDU Activity Reporting Form: http://www.pmi.org/PDF/CCR%20Activity%20Reporting%20Form.pdf
  • In your PMI transcript, you will click the Report professional development units (PDUs) to see your current PDU activity. To log new PDU activity, you will use the Report PDU link.

As you submit PDU credits through your transcript, you will receive almost instantaneous confirmation of approval or rejection. Any reported credits over the 60 required for 3-year renewal will be applied to the next renewal cycle.  That means if you register PDUs throughout the three-year cycle as you earn them, then the actual renewal process will require nothing more than a payment of the fees.

Just as the original application process is greatly simplified by good record-keeping beforehand, so is the PMP renewal process. Now that you know how to keep your PMP credential current, you need not worry about taking that beautiful certificate down from the mantle.

–Joshua Hester

Dude, where’s my 83-640 test?

July 20, 2010 at 11:18 am | Posted in Microsoft, Performance-Based Testing | Leave a comment
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Last month, when I was working in our Transcender booth at Microsoft TechEd, a customer approached and asked me, “Dude, where’s my 83-640 test?”  That’s pretty much a direct quote, and yes, I pretty much liked him instantly, so we got to talking. It seems this gentleman scheduled the 83-640 test (MCTS: Windows Server 2008, Active Directory Configuration) at a Prometric center in the U.S., but when he arrived to take his exam, he had to take the multiple-choice form of the test with test number 70-640. The performance-based lab exam wasn’t available.

Yo Microsoft, what gives?  While at TechNet, I put on my detective shades and went looking for answers by quizzing fellow conference-goers. Attendees didn’t hesitate to share their theories as to why the 83-640 exam was suspended. One guy said the government did not want Microsoft using this new testing technology; it was making the boys at the CIA a little too nervous.  Another person said a test taker drank a 20-oz Dr. Pepper with some Pop Rocks before taking her test and had a nervous breakdown from the sugar overload, and is now suing Microsoft for a gazillion dollars.

Government conspiracies? High-dollar law suits? I figured it was time to separate fact from fiction. So I decided to visit the Microsoft Learning booth at TechEd and ask the sources closest to this matter. Here’s what I learned:

The 83-640 has been temporarily suspended.  As you know, the 83-640 test has two parts: a multiple-choice part and a performance-based lab section. The performance-based part asked you to complete several tasks on a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008.  Several test takers reported problems accessing the virtual machine during the test. Others experienced performance issues during the exam. In response, Microsoft is tweaking the test to address all reported issues and improve the delivery of the 83-640 exam and any future performance-based tests.

Go directly to the Microsoft FAQs for details.

There are no exact figures available regarding the number of failed 83-640 attempts, however, if you drove a long distance to a test center, took the day off from work to take the exam, and your test failed to launch, it wouldn’t matter how many other people had this problem. You would be madder than a wet hornet! Microsoft understands this, and is committed to providing a stable test platform. I personally did not have a problem with the 83-640 test, but I’ve heard from a couple of people who did and they were less than thrilled.

During our chat at TechEd, Microsoft employees assured me that they are committed to fixing the 83-640 test. They also let me know they’re committed to the performance-based testing concept. If I were a betting man (and I am), I’d lay odds that we’ll see new (and improved) PBT exams in the near future.

The mystery of the missing 83-640 test has been solved. There is no government conspiracy or lawsuit against Microsoft. In fact, drinking a Dr. Pepper and chasing it with some Pop Rocks before a  test will not give you a nervous breakdown; I know, I’ve done it many a time.

By the way, the Microsoft Born To Learn blog post, dated May 7, 2010, discusses 83-640, and gives you a number of Official Helpful Tips and Contact Information if you’re trying to register for 83-640 or 70-640. While we’re always happy to answer your questions, when it comes to the 83-640, we’re likely to direct you to Microsoft’s official blogs & forums for the latest information.

Until the next conspiracy theory rolls around!

–George Monsalvatge

Troy’s TSHOOT study plan: Topic 1

July 16, 2010 at 3:51 pm | Posted in Cisco, Study hints | Leave a comment
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Topic 1 in our TSHOOT series: Get a Game Plan!

As was reported earlier, both here and in many other places on the Internet (though I don’t know why you would ever look anywhere else on the Internet, because everything you need to know is here on our blog, by the way), the new Cisco TSHOOT exam is not the same test from years past. Yes, there will be a token number of multiple-choice questions to answer, but the bulk of the exam will be presented to you as “trouble tickets”. This post is the first in a series where I will cover some of the topics that you may see on this exam, and — the important part — how you need to approach these topics in your study plan.

On the exam, you will be presented with a set of diagrams representing the network for which the problem tickets are based. Just like in the real world, your job is to find where the problem lies within this thicket of devices, and then to decide how to fix it. As we explained in our previous post on TSHOOT, you will have to answer three questions on each ticket:

  • Which device is causing the problem?
  • What is the nature of the problem?
  • What command would fix the problem?

In every scenario, there is a user at one end of the network trying to communicate with a device at the other end. That means that the problem could be located at 5 or 6 different links along the way.  Some of the devices are routers, some are switches, and some are Layer 3 switches.

(If you’re not getting a good picture of what I mean, then this would be a good time to go and look at Cisco’s online demo for the TSHOOT, http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/le2/le37/le10/tshoot_tutorial.html, and then return to this post.)

Before you even start working the first ticket, you should adopt a plan of attack. Don’t take a scattershot approach. Be organized. Let’s look at the tried and true approaches to this type of troubleshooting. You have two issues to consider as you work:

1. Where is the problem (on which device)?

2. At what  layer of the OSI model is the problem located?

Where is the problem?

Let’s start with the possible approaches for the first issue.

Tactic 1: Start at the source

With this approach, you would start with the user device and attempt to ping the IP address of the next device on the path to the destination device. If that works, then ping from the second device to the third, and so on. At some point in the process, a ping will fail, and now you know which connection has a problem. So make sure you know how to determine the IP address of an interface and how to ping an interface.

Tactic 2: Start at the destination

With this approach, you ping from the source device to the destination. Of course, it will fail (otherwise there would not be a trouble ticket, right?). Then you work back toward the source, pinging next from the source to the next closest device in the path. When your ping is successful, the problem will then be identified as residing on the last connection that failed before the one that worked.

Tactic 3: Start in the middle

Are you a gambler? Then you would understand that the odds of finding the problem the quickest are best with this approach. Here, you ping to the middle of the path, and if that works, continue to ping toward the destination. If pinging to the middle of the path doesn’t work, start to ping back toward the source. Mathematically speaking (please do not ask me to explain it, ask George, he went to Georgia Tech with the rest of the smart kids), this will find the problem the quickest.

PING tips

Realize that when a device is connected to a Layer 2 switch there is no need to ping the IP address of the switch. It does not come into play in the switching or routing process. If it’s a Layer 3 switch, then that’s different, but even then you will be concerned with the router part of the Layer 3 switch and not the switch side. So that means you should ping from the device to the next router interface in the path, and skip the switch.

What type of problem is it?

Now that you have determined where the problem is, you must determine the type of problem it is. There are three approaches to this.

Tactic 1: Top down

This approach starts by troubleshooting application issues (Layer 7), and then working down the OSI model to the transport and network layers, and from there to the physical layer (Layer 1). I would not recommend this approach since the problem is connectivity, which is most likely to be a lower layer.  Application issues usually result in performance issues, not connectivity issues.

Tactic 2: Bottom up

With this approach, you start with the physical layer (cabling), then proceed to Layer 2, which would encompass VLAN issues and DLCIs. If the problem is not discovered, you would move to Layer 3 to investigate routing protocol issues, DHCP problems, and NAT. This is a better approach than top down for this scenario, and one I recommend.

Tactic 3: Divide and Conquer

This approach plays the odds and starts in the middle of the OSI model, at the network layer, and then proceeds up or down based on the results of your investigation. For example, if you see no routing protocol issues, NAT issues, or DHCP issues, then move down to Layer 2.

Whatever approach you adopt, you should stick with it for the duration of the ticket. Be methodical and keep working until you find the problem. You have plenty of time to finish if you know your commands, although you should do some quick math from time to time and ensure you don’t spend too much time on one ticket. If there are 16 tickets and you spent 20 minutes on the multiple-choice questions (let’s say there are about 10), then you have 115 minutes left for 16 tickets. That’s 7 minutes per ticket. Keep that in mind and if you find yourself crunched for time, don’t skip any answers, but make a guess and move on.

I’ll go into more depth on specific issues, such as issues with BGP, DHCP, IPV6, EIGRP, and HSRP in my next post.

Stay tuned!

–Troy McMillan

What We’re Working On – July Edition

July 13, 2010 at 1:35 pm | Posted in Transcender news | Leave a comment
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So it’s taken me well into July to realize I never shared what we were working on this summer! It’s been a busy few weeks since our last recap, and it’s looking like it’ll be a busy end to 2010, so let me share our July To-Do list before another month gets away from us.

George and Robin learned a great deal at Microsoft TechEd 2010 last month, and brought home a laundry list of topics for our team to address. At the top of that list was your interest in SharePoint 2010 certifications. So we’ve added a couple of Administrator exams to our project plans, and hope to roll these out (70-667 & 70-668) starting in the fall. In the meantime, George will work on releasing the Windows 7 upgrade product for Microsoft exam 70-682.

Robin made a quick transition from TechEd to CompTIA, and is near the finish line for the first of two new Linux+ products (LX0-101 and LX0-102)! For a quick reminder of the latest changes in the Linux+ world, check out Robin’s post or the CompTIA site, http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/linux.aspx.

Another request we’ve been receiving regularly since TechEd is for the new Visual Studio 4.0 practice tests. Josh is all over these. In May, we reported his complete immersion in these beta tests, and he barely caught his breath before the exams went live. But he took a couple of days to sort through the resource material and is focused on releasing the first TS practice test, 70-511, by August 2010.

In case you missed our tweet, the 70-686 practice test (PRO: Windows 7 Enterprise Desktop Administrator) released last week. Best of luck to those of you going the PRO route! Aside from the usual relief that comes with crossing another project off the list, this release also brings Troy back to full-time Cisco focus. With Cisco Live breathing new life into your requests for CCNP practice tests, Troy has submitted a solid project plan to get the best product to you in the shortest amount of time. He’ll be busy authoring content this month for an early August release of the new ROUTE practice test.

In other news, I wanted to thank you for the all the Twitter & Blog love in June! We hope to make it as easy as possible for you guys to share your questions/concerns with our team directly, and having you connect through Twitter during the week our guys were at TechEd really made us feel like we could be in a hundred places at once & not miss a thing! Your comments and questions posted to our blog also help us learn what topics we should address next here and what posts haven’t quite clarified things for you. So keep those coming; let us know what you want to read about next.

Last note for this month:
I’ve gotten quite a few requests for the new Microsoft Office 2010 practice test products. Unfortunately, I’ve had to reply to most of you by saying that the products are on our calendar, but we don’t have release dates yet. I hate to be so vague, but honestly, it’s been a bit of a mission to find a facility where we can take these exams, and we have no intention of developing a practice product for a test we’ve never seen. So bear with us for a couple more weeks while we sort out vouchers, test center availability, and project blueprints, and as soon as we have a schedule in place, we’ll let you guys know when those products will hit our shelves.

Until next month – grab your shades, lather on the sunscreen & enjoy your summer!

–Aima Rotella

ASP.NET development and open standards: jQuerylicious!

July 7, 2010 at 3:31 pm | Posted in Microsoft | Leave a comment
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Since the introduction of Ajax in ASP.NET, the Redmond shop has become more welcoming of open-source Web standards. The addition of jQuery in ASP.NET 4 continues that tradition. jQuery is more than just quick syntax for DOM manipulation; it is the basis for a wealth of robust plugins that save valuable development time and energy. And it’s almost as much fun to say as “vuvuzela.”

Let’s start with a basic HTML form:

<form id="jQueryForm">
<select id="lstContacts" >
<option value="jhester">Joshua</option>
<option value="tmcmillan">Troy</option>
<option value="rabernathy">Robin</option>
<option value="gmonsalvatge">George</option>
<option value="alang">Ann</option>
<option value="arotella">Aima</option>
</select>
<input id="txtUsername" type="text" />
<input id="jButton" value="test" type="button" />
</form>

Let’s say that we want to access the selected option and retrieve the associated username. In vanilla JavasScript, we’d probably use code similar to the following:

var username = document.getElementById("lstContacts").value;

Of course, this script alone is testament to how far browser equality has come. Using the Ajax library, we could abbreviate our script even further:

var username = $get("lstContacts").value;

But what about if the list allowed multiple selections? In that case, we would need to iterate through the elements and format the selections. jQuery supports a CSS-style selector, so we can overcome this issue fairly easy, as shown in this example:

var usernames = "";
$("select option:selected").each(function () {
usernames += $(this).val() + " ";
});

But, as I said before, jQuery for DOM manipulation is only the tip of the iceberg. Using the Microsoft Ajax CDN, you have a multitude of awesome plugins available, including the jQuery validate plugin. So, let’s take an existing AJAX Web Form (with the requisite jQuery script references):

<form runat="server" ID="numberForm">
<asp:Label runat="server" AssociatedControlID="txtNumber">Type a number from 1 to 10.</asp:Label>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtNumber" />
<asp:Button runat="server" Text="Guess" />
</form>

Sure, you could use the ASP.NET validators to solve this scenario; nothing wrong with that at all. But the jQuery validate plugin through the Validation library provides a simple, and robust validation mechanism.  The validate plugin uses rules to specify requirements and messages for customized error messages. In this scenario, you would use the following jQuery script:

$("#numberForm").validate ({
rules: {
txtNumber: {
required: true,
min: 1,
max: 10
}
},
messages: {
txtNumber: {
required: "Please do not leave blank.",
min: "Must be greater than or equal to 1.",
max: "Must be less than or equal to 10."
}
}
});

Look, no hands! Completely customizable and no server-side postback required!

Once upon a time, choosing ASP as your Web technology locked you into using proprietary VB scripting. Now, with the advent of ASP.NET 4, open standards are finally supported and fully embraced by team Microsoft. ASP coding has evolved from integrating these standards to simply learning how to use them.

–Josh Hester aka codeguru

Linux+ Insights & References

July 2, 2010 at 11:02 am | Posted in CompTIA, LPI | 4 Comments
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As most of you probably know, the new Linux+ format includes two tests, LX0-101 and LX0-102. Because this format is so new to many CompTIA certification holders out there, I want to take a little time to explain the two tests and to let you know what references are currently available.

You can download the new Exam Guides from CompTIA by going to http://www.comptia.org/certifications/testprep/examobjectives.aspx and entering the required information. You will need to download both the LX0-101 and LX0-102 Exam Guides.

The four main objectives for the LX0-101 exam are:

  • System Architecture – configuring hardware, booting the system, and configuring runlevels
  • Linux Installation and Package Management – designing hard disk layout, installing boot manager, managing shared libraries, and using Debian, YUM, and RPM package management
  • GNU and Linux Commands – using command-line tools, using text filters, performing basic file management, using streams, pipes, and redirects, managing processes, managing process execution priorities, searching text files, and using vi editor
  • Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard – creating partitions and filesystems, maintaining filesystem integrity, mounting and unmounting filesystems, managing disk quotas, managing file permissions and ownership, managing hard and symbolic links, and finding system files and placing them in the right location

The six  main objectives for the LX0-102 exam are:

  • Shells, Scripting, and Data Management – customizing shell environment, customizing and writing simple scripts, and managing SQL data
  • User Interfaces and Desktops – configuring X11, setting up a display manager, and configuring accessibility
  • Administrative Tasks – managing user and group accounts, scheduling jobs, and configuring localization and internationalization
  • Essential System Services – maintaining system time, managing system logs, configuring MTA basics, and managing printing
  • Networking Fundamentals – understanding Internet protocols, configuring basic networks, troubleshooting basic networks, and configuring DNS clients
  • Security – administering security, configuring host security, and configuring encryption

Remember that these objectives are exactly the same as those for the Linux Professional Institute’s  LPIC-1 certification (Junior Level Linux Professional). So any study materials that you find for the LPIC-1 certification would work for the new CompTIA Linux+ certification.

When taking the exams, you will see a mixture of multiple choice and free response (or fill-in-the-blank) questions. The free response questions are very specific in telling you what you need to enter, as in entering the command name only or entering just the command’s appropriate parameter.

When we started the development of our practice tests, there were no references released specifically for these exams. We decided to purchase the LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide 2nd Edition from Sybex (ISBN 978-0-470-40483-6).  Recently, Sybex released the CompTIA Linux+ Complete Study Guide (ISBN 978-0-470-88845-2). A cursory examination comparing the contents of the two shows that the books are identical (or so close to it that I cannot see the differences yet).  So in my opinion, either book could be  used as a study resource for these two exams. There is even a handy guide at the beginning that breaks down the two exams’ objectives and points you to the appropriate chapter for studying.

I also want to mention AGAIN that passing the new Linux+ certification qualifies you to also obtain the LPIC-1 certification. To do so,  you will need to watch those questions that you receive when you are actually sitting the live exam. One question that pops up on the screen specifically asks if you want your results to be forwarded to the Linux Professional Institute. You definitely want to answer YES to that one!

We are rapidly approaching the release of our practice test for the LX0-101 exam, and will start the development of our LX0-102 practice test soon. I hope to hear that you used our practice test to study – and pass – the exam. Feel free to ask any questions that may pop up!

-Robin

The more things (Ex)change, the more they don’t stay the same.

July 2, 2010 at 8:50 am | Posted in Microsoft, Study hints | Leave a comment
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There are two constants in this world: taxes and change. You can complain about both, but you had better not avoid either one. In the last five years, I have had to learn three different Exchange  versions: Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, and now Exchange 2010. I may groan and complain every step of the way, but I do enjoy the challenge of learning new things and expanding my horizons. The best way I know to handle change is to tackle it head-on.

When I had to tackle Exchange 2007, I relied on my previous experience with Exchange 2003. As you probably know, there were a whole lot of changes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, so that was some serious tackling. When I had to tackle Exchange 2010, though, I found that the leap up from Exchange 2007 was not nearly as exhausting. As with any version upgrade, Microsoft will test on topics from both the old and new versions (such as upgrades, migration, and co-existence) as well as the nuts-and-bolts of the current system’s operation. Understandably, new features also get a lot of coverage in the objectives. With that in mind, here are some new-to-2010 concepts that will be tested on the TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring (70-662) exam and the Pro: Designing and Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (70-663) exam.

Here are a few major changes that you may want to study in more depth:

  • Say goodbye to databases being tied to a single Exchange 2010 server. (Free at last, free at last; the databases are free at last.)
  • Storage groups have been removed, and there are new data storage options.
  • You can have copies of the database on other mailbox servers.
  • RBAC is the new permissions model.
  • Shadow redundancy is now enabled for messages in transit.
  • Transport protection rules are integrated with AD RMS.
  • Databases are created at the organizational level.

This last change can cause a problem with naming databases since they are organization-wide; therefore, you will need a unique name for the database. You may want to include the unique name of the server in the database name, which will ensure you have a unique name for the database itself. I use numbering to determine which server has the original database and not a copy of the database. For example, you could create a database called Srv55-DB01 to indicate that the master copy of the database (01) is on Srv55. The concept of organization-wide databases falls under the “Create and configure databases” sub-objective of the 70-662 study guide, and is also covered in the “Deploy mailbox server role” sub-objective of the 70-663 study guide.

About 20% of the 70-663 exam will focus on the “Planning the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure” objective. Among the 2007-to-2010 changes in this category is that Exchange 2010 reduces disk I/O operations by almost 70% over Exchange Server 2007. So what? Well, that means you can use cheaper and larger disks for data storage, such as Serial ATA disks. And with so many IT departments watching their wallets, who wouldn’t love a low-cost storage solution?

One major change you may have noticed already: the  permissions model for Exchange 2007 has been replaced by Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in 2010. RBAC allows you to apply granular permissions to users. For example, if you have a group of admins that should be allowed to manage only a certain set of users in a particular location instead of the entire organization, you can use RBAC to configure permissions for those admins. You  could create a new role group named Recipient Management-Atlanta Admins to allow a specific group of admins to manage recipient tasks in your Atlanta location only. RBAC offers you a lot of freedom to assign permissions, but it is complex, which means a lot of Exchange admins just don’t like to deal with it. Too bad; it’s specifically mentioned in the “Design and deploy Exchange permissions model” sub-objective of 70-663, and has its very own sub-objective (called, oddly enough, “Configure RBAC”) on the 70-662 exam as part of “Configuring Exchange Recipients and Public Folders,” which is weighted at 14% of the exam.

Unlike previous versions of Exchange, Exchange 2010 provides shadow redundancy. Shadow redundancy provides a failsafe for messages for the entire time the message is in transit. A message is not deleted until the transport server verifies that the message has completed delivery. The transport dumpster feature, which was introduced in Exchange Server 2007, provided a basic level of transport redundancy for message delivery in a CCR environment. However, the transport dumpster did not address the potential for message loss when messages are in transit between a Hub Transport and an Edge Transport server, whereas shadow redundancy does. Shadow redundancy is a part of the “Planning the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure” objective (weighted at 20%) of 70-663.

In Exchange 2010, you can integrate transport protection rules with AD Rights Management Services (RMS). AD RMS identifies users and provides the users with licenses for protected information. It also provides IRM (Information Rights Management) protection. AD RMS can work with RMS-enabled applications, such as Microsoft Office and OWA, to protect messages and documents online and offline. To use IRM protection in an Exchange 2010 organization, you will need to deploy Windows Server 2008 with AD RMS installed. For 70-663, AD RMS integration is covered under the “Designing and Deploying Security for the Exchange Organization” objective, weighted at 20 percent of the test.

Transport rules are covered under multiple objectives and sub-objectives of 70-663 that together weigh in at 40% of the exam, so I’d recommend that you know this topic backwards and forwards. For 70-662, transport rules are covered under “Configuring Message Transport” (15% of the test) and “Configuring Message Compliance and Security” (13% of the test). Again, with 28% of the exam potentially covering transport rule-related questions, I’d study up on this topic.

Good luck!

–George Monsalvatge

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