Thanks Ken.

I would sooo much like to try this; however, I have never used Winserver2008, and I haven't even played that much with Virtual server or PC to make it worthwhile. It certainly looks good though.

A pity... I assume you're going to give it a go? If so, let me know how you get on.

Cheers.

well, since its something I have an interest in, and I havent got anything else booked in for next Wednesday morning I booked myself in for this.

I expect to fail, but I'm sure I'll learn a lot in the process.

Have you actually used it in anger though?

sure have. virtualization is something that I'm quite involved in at work. I'll be doing my VCP exam soon too.....If they ever let us have the vouchers (six weeks after doing the course..... )

Ahhh VCP.... now that's an interesting exam!

I booked this in for next wednesday
I've barely touched hyper V in a working state
all the previous versions had bugs galore in them
must see if i can throw something together, but in all fairness I'm packing up to move, so i might just wing it and see how i do, worked ok for Ex 2007

sat this this morning. seem like a straight forward exam if you know your subject.

I got a bit lost in the more enterprise level things that I don't touch, but then again I knew I would.

I'm fairly sure that had I known more on those areas I'd have had a good chance, but since I didn't I just took my best guess.

Should the resluts come back saying I've failed (as I expect) at least I will know where I need to brush up my knowledge on.

Sat it this morning, here I my thoughts/tips

Firstly, its longer than most the MS exams you will be used to, won't say any more than that

You will need to be familiar with more than just Hyper-v, you will need to know a fair bit about Windows Server 2008 (a given) but lots of other products that tie in with Hyper-V (Systems Center, Powershell, Operations Manager, etc)

You need to know how the whole system works together, unfortunately I am not clued up on Systems Center and my Hyper-V practice is slim to say the least, but I gave it a good shot, hopfully my enterprise experience counted for something, but I'm not overly familiar with all the new 2008 bits and bobs yet

Atleast it was good prep, and exposed a little bit more about what Hyper-V can actually do

Thanks for the info Ryan. Do you have to wait for your result?

yeah usually 8 - 12 weeks after the exam beta ends
I don't tend to get my hopes up for beta exams, so it usually is just a little surprise in the mail down the line
I'll defineitly sit it again if i don't manage it, virtualisation is my job after all, need to play with hyper-v much more once my move is complete

The results are in......Failed!

Got my results in

I had not really used Hyper-V prior to sitting the test, and it showed, although my virtualization experience clearly came in to play

I got 661 on the beta, and needed 700 for a pass
that was no prep, no prior hyper-v experience

a lot of the let down was some of the specific Microsoft supporting technologies that were asked about, again a lot changed in 2k8 and I was not familiar with the terms

Since playing around with hyper-v, 2k8 clusters and SCVMM I feel much better equipped and will sit this again as soon as I have a bit of income