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Hi all, I’ve been missing for quite some time busy with different topics.  About a month ago I became VMWare VCP certified on VI3 and today I had the opportunity to take part in the beta test for the new 70-652 Microsoft certification focusing on Hyper-V, I must say it was a definetly a very interesting exam very complete in my opinion and the foundations that I learned with VMWare helped understand some of the topics the exam outline covered when I was studying for it.

Since I can’t share with you what was in the exam due to the NDA’s you accept when you undertake any type of technical certification I’m able to share with you the materials I used for studying for it all of them freely available from different blogs or technical resources provided by Microsoft.

• Preparation Guide for Exam 70-652
• How to Install Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
• Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V FAQ
• Windows Virtualization Team Blog
• The Virtual PC Guy Blog
• Jose Barreto’s Blog
• Performance Tunning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008
• Windows Deployment Services Step-by-Step Guide
• Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Windows Virtualization

In order to complement my reading I did several labs with Hyper-V in cluster scenarios, the scenarios I used for my lab where all using iSCSI storage my scenarios where based of on this 2 posts:

• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V failover clustering options
• How to create a Windows Server 2008 Cluster within Hyper-V using simulated iSCSI storage 

Aside from setting up a clustered enviroment I toyed around some with both System Center Virtual Machine Manager and System Center Operations Manager, I really did not have too much documentation or how to guides for these except for this:

• SCVMM How To Videos
• Clive Watson’s Weblog
• How to Integrate SCVMM and SCOM

Finally I reviewed some excellent on-demand webcasts Microsoft has available on Hyper-V and SCVMM, those are listed bellow:

• Windows Server Virtualization Under the Hood (Level 200)
• Server Virtualization  with Hyper-V Features and Architecture (Level 200)
• Managing Hyper-V (Level 200)
• Examining Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 (Level 300)
• High Availability with Hyper-V (Level 300)
• Overview of the Next Version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta (Level 200)
• Jump-Start Your Virtualization Projects with Microsoft Solution Accelerators (Level 200)
• Planning for Hyper-V and Terminal Services (Level 300)
• Windows Server 2008 Server Virtualization Solution Scenario (Level 300)
  

Hope this links prove themselves useful to you when you are getting ready to understake your cert, good luck.

I’ll let you know if I passed when MS notifies me once the beta test results are out.