70-332 Study Guide – Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
The 70-332: Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 exam is the second SharePoint 2013 exam required yo get your Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) SharePoint Certification. As someone who got his MCSE SharePoint 2013 certification, this guide is to help you find materials to study, and ace the exam. I will share both free and paid options, whether books, video training or simply links to articles and blog posts. I will not share any dumps as those are against the Microsoft Terms of Service, and by using dumps, we decrease the value of our certifications.
Certification Path
Exam Name | Link to Exam on Microsoft Learning | Study Guide |
70-346 Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements | Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements | 70-346 Study Guide – Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements |
70-347 Enabling Office 365 Services | Enabling Office 365 Services | 70-347 Study Guide – Enabling Office 365 Services |
70-331 Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 | Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 | 70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Study Guide |
70-332 Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 | 70-332 Study Guide – Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 | |
Books that covers the whole exam
Exam Ref 70-332 Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (MCSE) Prepare for Exam 70-332—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Designed for experienced IT Professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level.Links:
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Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration The new iteration of SharePoint boasts exciting new features. However, any new version also comes with its fair share of challenges and that’s where this book comes in. The team of SharePoint admin gurus returns to presents a fully updated resource that prepares you for making all the new SharePoint 2013 features work right. They cover all of the administration components of SharePoint 2013 in detail, and present a clear understanding of how they affect the role of the administrator.Links:
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Video Training for the exam
NOTE: Pluralsight is a paid resource unlike Channel9 and Microsoft Virtual Academy which are free. The quality they provide is also superior because of all the quality checks they go through, and the instructors are one of the best in the industry. The Pluralsight courses have a link to where you can get a free trial and decide for yourself if paying a subscription or not is worth it, but the 10-day free trial should allow you to view all those courses for free.
![]() | SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions (70-332) Part 1 Part 1 of 3 in the SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions (70-332) series. This series focuses on the planning and implementing phases of all aspects of SharePoint 2013.
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SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions (70-332) Part 2 Part 2 of 3 in the SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions (70-332) series. This series focuses on the planning and implementing phases of all aspects of SharePoint 2013.
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SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions (70-332) Part 3 Part 3 of 3 in the SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions (70-332) series. This series focuses on the planning and implementing phases of all aspects of SharePoint 2013.
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Exam Prep Session for Exam 70-331 and Exam 70-332: SharePoint Server 2013 This Exam Prep session is designed for people experienced with Microsoft SharePoint 2013, who are interested in taking the 70-331 (Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013) and 70-332 (Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013) exams. These exams are required for the new MCSE: SharePoint certification. You can expect to review the topics covered in these exams in a fast-paced format, as well as receive valuable test taking techniques. You will leave with an understanding of how Microsoft certification works, key topics covered in the exams, and an exhaustive look at resources for getting ready for the exam. The session is led by a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), experienced in delivering sessions on these topics. |
Instructor-led training (Microsoft Official Courses)
Course 20332B: Advanced Solutions of Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2013 (5 Days) This five-day course examines how to plan, configure, and manage a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 environment. Special areas of focus include implementing high availability, disaster recovery, service application architecture, Business Connectivity Services, social computing features, productivity and collaboration platforms and features, business intelligence solutions, enterprise content management, web content management infrastructure, solutions, and apps. The course also examines how to optimize the Search experience, how to develop and implement a governance plan. and how to perform an upgrade or migration to SharePoint Server 2013. |
Articles / Blog Posts per objective
Plan business continuity management (21%)
- Plan for SQL high availability and disaster recovery
- Plan for SQL Server mirroring; plan for SQL Server clustering; plan for SQL Server AlwaysOn; plan for SQL Server Log Shipping; plan for storage redundancy; plan for login replication
- Plan SharePoint high availability
- Plan for service distribution; plan for service instance configuration; plan for physical server distribution; plan for network redundancy; plan for server load balancing; plan for SQL Server aliases
- Plan backup and restore
- Establish a SharePoint backup schedule; establish a SQL Server backup schedule; plan a non-production environment content refresh; plan for farm configuration recovery; plan for service application recovery; plan for content recovery; configure a recovery solution using SQL Database running in Azure and other Azure backup solutions
Plan a SharePoint environment (20%)
- Plan a social workload
- Plan communities; plan My Sites; plan social permissions; plan user profiles; plan activity feeds; plan connections; configure Yammer settings
- Plan for social computing and collaboration in SharePoint Server 2013 [TechNet]
- Plan for My Sites in SharePoint Server 2013 [TechNet]
- Social computing terminology and concepts in SharePoint Server 2013 [TechNet]
- Overview of microblog features, feeds, and the Distributed Cache service in SharePoint Server 2013 [TechNet]
- Plan user profiles and identities (SharePoint Server 2013) [TechNet]
- Plan for social computing and collaboration in SharePoint Server 2013 [TechNet]
- Plan and configure a search workload
- Plan and configure search result relevancy; plan and configure index freshness; plan and configure result sources; plan and configure the end-user experience; plan and configure a search schema; analyze search analytics reports
- Overview of search in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Plan enterprise search architecture in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Scale enterprise search in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Scale search for Internet Sites in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Disaster recovery best practices and strategies for SharePoint 2013 search[TechNet]
- Best practices for organizing content for search in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Understanding result sources for search in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Plan crawling and federation in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Overview of the search schema in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Plan to transform queries and order results in SharePoint 2013[TechNet]
- Overview of search result ranking in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Overview of analytics processing in SharePoint Server 2013[TechNet]
- Plan and configure a Web Content Management (WCM) workload
- Plan and configure channels; plan and configure product catalog and topic pages; plan and configure Design Manager; plan and configure content deployment; plan and configure display templates; plan and configure variations
- Plan an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) workload
- Plan and configure E-Discovery; plan and configure document routing; plan and configure co-authoring; plan and configure record disposition and retention; plan large document repositories; plan and configure software boundaries
- eDiscovery in SharePoint 2013[MSDN]
- Create Content Organizer rules to route documents [Office Support]
- Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2013[TechNet]
- eDiscovery in SharePoint 2013[MSDN]
Upgrade and migrate a SharePoint environment (20%)
- Evaluate content and customizations
- Perform migration pre-check tasks; analyze content database test results; configure web application authentication for upgrade; resolve orphan objects; resolve missing file system components; resolve configuration conflict issues
- Plan an upgrade process
- Plan removal of servers in rotation; configure a parallel upgrade; configure read-only access for content; configure upgrade farms; measure upgrade performance; plan an installation sequence; migrate SharePoint on-premises to SharePoint Online
- Upgrade site collection
- Perform a health check; analyze and resolve health check results; plan and configure available site collection modes; plan and configure site collection upgrade availability; plan and configure EVAL mode; plan and configure site collection upgrade throttling
Create and configure service applications (21%)
- Create and configure app management
- Create and configure the App Store; create and configure subscriptions; configure marketplace connections; configure DNS entries; configure wildcard certificates
- Create and configure productivity services
- Create and configure Microsoft Excel Services, Microsoft Access services, Microsoft Visio services, Microsoft Word Automation services, Microsoft PowerPoint Conversion services, and Translation Services
- Configure service application federation
- Plan services to federate; perform a certificate exchange; manage trusts; manage service application permissions; publish service applications; consume service applications
- Create and configure a Business Connectivity Service (BCS) and Secure Store application
- Import and configure BCS models; configure BCS model security; configure BCS for search; generate a Secure Store master key; manage Secure Store target application permissions; create Secure Store target applications
Manage SharePoint solutions, BI, and systems integration (18%)
- Manage SharePoint solutions and applications
- Manage sandbox solution quotas; configure sandbox solution management; deploy farm solutions; upgrade farm solutions; deploy Apps; upgrade Apps
- Plan and configure a BI infrastructure
- Plan and configure Performance Point; plan and configure reporting services; plan and configure PowerPivot; plan and configure Excel Services; plan and configure PowerView; plan and configure BI security
- Create and configure work management
- Configure a connection to Exchange; configure a connection to Microsoft Project Server; manage trusts; plan Exchange configuration for E-Discovery
Additional Tips
I think the best thing that you can do after reading this, or even meanwhile, is to prepare some Virtual Machines either on your computer, or in Azure, and try to install SharePoint Server 2013, and play with those features, follow the tutorials and you shouldn’t have any problems with the exam!
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