Testing Center

If you’re taking the exam at the Rochester EOC, you’ll want to park in this parking ramp. It’s on
Woodbury Blvd and seemed to be the closest place to park. It cost $6 to park there for 3 hours, and
when you exit make sure to use the Woodbury Blvd exit ramp as the other exit is for tag holders only.

The first group walks up at 8:30am and if you arrive anytime after that you can walk up to the testing
area. You will need two forms of ID, one being a driver’s license and the other either another
government issues ID or a credit/debit card with your name and signature on it. You have to put all your
other belongings in a locker, sign some paperwork, get your picture taken and then you are provided a
computer along with a dry erase pad and earplugs. The entire process takes about 10-15 mins once you
arrive at the testing center. You can’t bring any water with you but you can get up at any time during the
exam to use the restroom or drink from the water fountain. Also, if you are used to f.lux you might want
to take a pair of tinted computer glasses as you are going to be staring at a bright white computer
screen with black text for hours. The instructor just needs to check them to make sure they aren’t smart
glasses like Google Glass.

Test Format

It’s pretty seamless the way Pearson VUE has the test setup. The instructor logs into the machine,
selects your name and then you are good to go. You have 3 ½ hours to take the test which includes 3
hours for test questions itself and ½ hour included for reading instructions. Also, the test format allows
you change between different contrast modes if the white screen is bothering you. My test was broken
up into three sections; 39 questions in the first section, followed by 5 case study questions and then 8
lab questions. Once you start each section you cannot go back to the previous section, but you are free
to spend as much time on each section as you want. You have to manage your own time.

In each section you are allowed to mark most questions for “Review” so that you can back to them easily
before moving on to the next section. You can also mark questions for “Feedback” if you’d like to leave
comments at the end of the test on questions you thought could be improved or didn’t make sense.
Also, the amount of time left and the number of questions remaining are always displayed in the upper
right-hand corner. Just to note, there is no guarantee you will get the same number of questions or
order I had.

Test Questions Format

My first section of 39 questions started 7 with True/False questions. The question had a couple
paragraphs of setup and then asked you if the suggested next step was True or False. Two or three
questions in a row would use the same setup info but with a different suggested next step you’d have to
say was True or False. These were the only questions that you couldn’t go back to in this section and
sometimes you would answer “True” on the first question and then get to the next one and realize the
first was “False”, so be careful. The remaining questions in the group of 39 were all multiple choice, with
answer formats ranging from one right answer, selecting multiple right answers and even some drag-
and-drop setups. Some questions have multiple parts on the same page each part was scored
individually.

The next section was 5 questions based on a case study. The test gave me info on a company’s business
description, their current infrastructure, the infrastructure they would like to migrate to in Azure and
then any requirements for their new cloud infrastructure or user accounts. Throughout this section I
could go back and forth between the current question and all the case study details.

The last section was an Azure lab with 8 questions. The test showed a VM on the left two-thirds of the
screen that you were given a unique username and password for. Once you log in to the VM it loads MS
Edge with an Azure portal window for you to complete your questions. The questions show in an
accordion format on the right third of the screen and you can mark them “Complete” as you finish each
question. You use the same Azure subscription for all the questions and each one asks you create a new
Azure component independent from the ones in the previous questions. That way if you don’t know
how to complete a question it doesn’t hurt you on future questions. Also, I only had one question that
required me to use Azure PowerShell and everything else I could do through the portal. When using
PowerShell, I used the help commands a lot to identify what parameters were required and to view
examples of the command (Get-AzDnsZone -?)

Test Questions Content

I’m including another Word doc with question details for what I saw, but remember that the pool of
questions is very large so you might not see any of these. Also, I used WhizLabs to study and about a
quarter of the questions on the exam were similar or exact to the WhizLabs questions. I’ve included
screenshots of those questions in the Word doc.