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I’ve organized this section into several key categories, in order to make my posts more accessible. Enjoy!
Exchange 2013 Architecture Samples
I'm posting a set of Sample Architectural Design documents that were adapted from a real-world Multi-site Hybrid Exchange deployment. The documents are built entirely on Best Practices and I've taken the liberties of updating elements of the design to reflect changes...
Exchange 2013 Brief – Hybrid Deployments
Executive Overview The cloud offers consumers more options for deploying their applications and is attractive from the perspective of predictable costs, reliability and scalability. However, not every component of an Organization's environment may be fully suited...
Exchange 2013 Configuration Guides
A warm Ook and hello from your banana loving primate friend! I've decided to put up a list of configuration guides for Exchange 2013 in an easy to access part of this blog. The configuration guides will help you to perform (hopefully) some tasks that you may find...
Exchange 2013 Architecture Series – Part 3: Mailbox and Storage Design
Hello all, in this third section on Exchange 2013 Architecture, we will look into the Exchange storage subsystem and build around some best practices on Exchange 2013 design. Exchange Storage Types Before you start provisioning your Exchange Server 2013 environment,...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 15: Project Procurement Management
The PMBOK addresses Project Procurement Management from the buyer’s perspective, in other words, we play the role of the buyer looking to contract some project work to a seller that is external to our Organization. Buyer and seller are common terms that are used in...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 14: Project Risk Management
This section covers the essential concepts and elements of contemporary risk management practices. In prior versions of the exam, this was the single most failed section. This is because a lot of people did not have a lot of formal training when it came to risk...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 13: Project Communications Management
Historically, most candidates find this section on Project Communications Management to be the easiest to pass. This is the time and place where you can gain a lot of ground in your exam score, particularly if you don't have a lot of knowledge and experience in other...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 12: Project Human Resource Management
This section of the PMBOK explores issues of teaming and working together and getting people moving towards common goals. A lot of the content is weighted heavily towards team development and dealing with conflict and behavioral issues that tend to arise in project...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 11: Project Quality Management
Philip Crosby, one of the forefathers of modern-day quality management, titled his seminal work on quality management, “Quality is free.” When we say that quality is free, we mean to say that quality shouldn't be thought of as an additional expense. If we are willing...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 10: Project Cost Management
In this Section, we will address issues relating to cost at a project management level. It is very helpful to have as broad a background as possible in addressing questions on cost, as questions on cost in the exam are rather diverse, ranging from Earned Value...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 9: Project Time Management
In this section, there will be a large focus on Scheduling. By the end of the section, you should develop an understanding of how networks are used to solve resource allocation; scheduling issues and leveling issues. You should expect to see PERT, CPM and Network...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 8: Project Scope Management
In this section we will learn how to define, measure and control the amount work to be performed in order to achieve the goals or objectives of a project. Project Scope Management involves some of the earliest activities that a PM will manage on a project. Logically,...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 7: Project Integration Management
This section is relatively easy to study for. If you've worked on a number of sizable projects, you probably would have participated in some of these processes, even if your Organization called them something else. Most candidates will not find Integration Management...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 6: Project Management Knowledge Areas
I like to use the analogy of a house under construction to go about explaining the structure of the PMBOK and how we can approach the learning process much as we would the building of a house. Chimp's Story of a House I remember the spring of 2001 very well. I just...
PMP Exam Prep – Part 5: The Project Management Processes
In this section, we will explore the basic structure of the PMBOK and how PMI has chosen to organize the 42 different Project Management Processes into five basic categories. Knowledge of how the PMBOK is structured will be key in your efforts to prepare for the...
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