70-400 Exam Study Notes

This page will provide links to the study tips provided for each bullet item in the list of skills measured on the 70-400 exam shown below as the tips are published.

70-400 Exam Overview and Preparation Strategy (6/2/2008)

Skills measured

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed in the following table. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.

Skills measured by Exam 70-400
1. Configuring System Center Operations Manager 2007 (15 percent)
a. Configure Notification. (6/2/2008)
b. Manage Roles. (6/12/2008)
c. Configure System Center Operations Manager options.
d. Discover and deploy agents within a trusted Active Directory forest.
e. Discover and deploy agents to systems not using Active Directory.
2. Deploying and Configuring Management Packs (28 percent)
a. Import a Management Pack. (8/13/2008)
b. Configure overrides.
c. Create a self-tuning threshold.
d. Migrate a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Pack to System Center Operations Manager 2007. (9/20/2008)
e. Configure diagnostics and recoveries for a rule or a monitor.
3. Building and Deploying Custom Management Packs (21 percent)
a. Configure security options.
b. Configure discovery for Management Packs.
c. Create monitors and rules.
d. Create a distributed application.
e. Create a synthetic transaction.
4. Maintaining System Center Operations Manager (23 percent)
a. Maintain a System Center Operations Manager infrastructure.
b. Create views.
c. Create tasks.
d. Fail over from Root Management Server (RMS).
e. Back up and restore System Center Operations Manager.
f. Manage and maintain reports.
5. Configuring Client Monitoring (13 percent)
a. Configure Audit Collection Service (ACS).
b. Configure Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM).(8/14/2008)
c. Configure Collective Client Monitoring (CCM). (8/14/2008)
d. Configure Business Critical Client Monitoring (BCCM). (8/14/2008)