The main steps you perform for a cutover migration are shown in the following illustration.

1. The administrator communicates upcoming changes to users and verifies domain ownership with the domain registrar.
2. The administrator prepares the servers for a cutover migration and creates empty mail-enabled security groups in Office 365.
3. The administrator connects Office 365 to the on-premises email system (this is called creating a migration endpoint).
4. The administrator migrates the mailboxes and then verifies the migration.
5. Grant Office 365 licences to your users.
6. The administrator configures the domain to begin routing email directly to Office 365.
7. The administrator verifies that routing has changed, and then deletes the cutover migration batch.
8. The administrator completes post-migration tasks in Office 365 (assigns licenses to users and creates an Autodiscover Domain Name System (DNS) record), and optionally decommissions the on-premises Exchange servers.

9. The administrator sends a welcome letter to users to tell them about Office 365 and to describe how to sign in to their new mailboxes.

Exam Target Audience

One of the recent hot IT topic is cloud technology. Microsoft and Amaze are two most active providers for cloud service. Microsoft’s Azure solution is very popular now. Learning Azure and obtain its cert will be very useful. The 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam is targeted towards a Developer candidate. Candidates who are experienced in designing, programming, implementing, automating, and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions. Candidates are also proficient with development tools, techniques, and approaches used to build scalable and resilient solutions.If you’re an experienced .NET developer, then you’ll likely have an easier time preparing for this exam. As a result, the exam will assume you are proficient with development tools, techniques and have experience developing scalable and resilient solutions.

Skills Measured

Here’s a high level break down of the exam objectives:

• Design and implement websites (15-20%)
• Create and manage virtual machines (20-25%)
• Design and implement cloud services (20-25%)
• Design and implement a storage strategy (20-25%)
• Manage application and network services (15-20%)

Note: The percentage next to each is the approximate break out of how much of the exam focuses on each objective area. As you can see it’s pretty evenly distributed across the 5 areas.

The full exam objectives are listed on the official page for the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam.

Free Video Courses / Training

There are many video training courses available for the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam. The courses top on my list are over at the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA), but there are many more. Here’s a list of video courses I used while studying for this exam with the approximate length of the training courses.

• Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (~9 hrs) via MVA
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (~6.5 hrs) via MVA
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: WebSites (~9 hrs) via MVA
• Exam Prep Session for Exam 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (~1.5 hrs) via Channel9 from Microsoft Ignite
• Azure Friday videos – there are MANY short videos hosted by Scott Hanselman. This is an excellent archive to go through!
• Channel9 Microsoft Azure videos – there are MANY videos on Channel9. This is an excellent archive to go through!

Another video training option that’s not Free, but there is a Free Trial available is Opsgility on-demand Azure training.

Books

There are a number of books on Microsoft Azure. The one geared towards studying for the exam is the “Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions” from Microsoft Press. This book is an excellent study resource to accompany all the other materials, as it’s condensed to cover the exam objectives list.

Note: Do NOT rely to heavily on any single study resources, even books.

Here a list of some Free eBooks available for download:

• “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure” Free eBook via Microsoft Press
• “Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure” Free eBook via Microsoft Press

Documentation

The documentation for Azure is an excellent study resource too! It’s been built out pretty heavily and even accepts contributions from the community via GitHub. I really encourage you to browse around the documentation and read, read, read in addition to all of your other study efforts.

Practice Tests

The typical practice test vendors do not currently offer any practice exams for the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam. Due to this fact, I actually developed some of my own practice test questions to help me prepare for the exam, and I put them up free for anyone to use!

Take the practice tests: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-532) Practice Test

While the list of questions I put together is not an exhaustive list, this offers yet another tool you can use to help prepare for the exam. Please don’t complain about the quality or the extensiveness of the questions. It takes a lot of time to write test questions! Also, I put these up on GitHub so feel free to browse the source code, fork it or whatever.

Play Time

It’s fine to get “book smart”, but there certainly is no substitute for just getting in there, playing around and practicing. Something Microsoft offers to encourage this is a Free Trial with $200 to spend on all Azure Services. So go dig in and experiment with how this stuff all works, and get some real world experience that will help you pass the exam. This is not just useful if you’re new to Azure. It’s also very useful if you’ve already been developing on Azure but just haven’t done much with certain features yet. Additionally, if you have an MSDN Subscription, then you already have some free monthly credits to use Azure available to you too.

Exam Study Tips

Here’s a few tips of techniques I use when studying and preparing for certification exams:

• Make sure to go through each exam objective category and study until you’re comfortable with that topic.
• Use at minimum 3 study resources on each topic. The variety and repetition will help you retain everything.
• Play with stuff. “Book smarts” are good, but practical hands-on experience is better.
• Make flash cards and/or practice test questions to help memorizing the stuff that can be memorized.
• Don’t be afraid to fail an exam. You will learn what areas you need to focus on better and can always take it again.
• Give yourself a deadline. Once you’re in a comfortable study pace, estimate when you’ll be ready for the exam and schedule it.
• Get your family on board to support you spending a significant amount of time outside of work to study.
• Choose the online proctored exam option when scheduling the exam. This way you can take the exam in a less stressful environment that is the comfort of your own home.

By using the above info, hope I can pass the exam and earn your Azure certification !

info source: http://pietschsoft.com/post/2015/06/06/How-I-passed-the-70-532-Developing-Microsoft-Azure-Solutions-certification-exam

Cheers that I got a MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification which I passed the exam in one take yesterday. I just needed to take one Microsoft exam # 70-743 to upgrade my MCITP window server 2008 to MCSA. If anyone want to get info to pass the 70-743, feel free to contact me. Moreover, I have a spare Microsoft exam coupon which will be expired in end of Sept 2017; I can sell it to you in great discount, feel free to contact me.

Although I knew this cert did not have any benefit to my career path, it was just the responsibility of IT guy to update his knowledge as well as academic qualification. IT field updates very fast, and it is very hard for to trace the technology. Let’s keep on learning…

十年前開始流行的的Project Management Professional (PMP) 和 PRINCE2 項目管理認證，現時有新的競爭者叫 Certified Scrum Master (CSM)認證，現已開始越來越多人留意了。

Scrum是一種新的項目管理的架構，通常為Agile (敏捷)方式的開發工具，而且通常用於軟件開發項目上。Agile/Scrum能夠處理複雜問題，將它們分拆，及優先考慮到單獨的任務中，然後將這些任務委託給最適合解決每個任務的專門團隊成員，所以它被認為較有效率。

以下是兩編bloger文章，很好地介紹Agile/Scrum的應用，值得參考：
Scrum 是什麼（1）：雙重回饋機制 –> http://teddy-chen-tw.blogspot.hk/2011/12/scrum-1.html
Scrum 是什麼（2）：Scrum 的內涵 –> http://teddy-chen-tw.blogspot.hk/2011/12/scrum-2.html

Recently, FDA conducted audit to my company. FDA is known as Food and Drug Administration whereas US has FDA organization and China also has CFDA organization. Its official web site is https://www.fda.gov.

I would like to post their 3 days inspection agenda for your reference. To pass FDA audit is essential for export medical product; let’s well prepare for it.

生产中预防和纠正，主要是针对生产中出现的偏差，在分析是重大偏差还是微小偏差，一般重大偏差就要启动CAPA即预防和纠正程序，如微小偏差就无需启动CAPA程序.

Charles Mok e-Bulletin

The government announced this week that it will partner with Shenzhen to develop Lok Ma Chau loop into a innovation and technology park. While I agree that more land supply for R&D is positive, given the huge investment in infrastructure that our taxpayers will pay for, we have the responsibility to ask the right questions to make sure Hong Kong will get value for the deal and generate positive impact, not rely on empty promises — granting entry permit waiver for “verified” Shenzhen workers, criteria and requirements to the tenants in the park, strategic role that this massive project carries in relation to other planned R&D land use at new development areas in the New Territories.

Transparency and accountability must be ensured throughout. I demand the government to release more details of this project, especially the cost estimate of development and what will be included in the proposed tech park, such as the proportion of land reserved for e-commerce, data centres.  

SMEs which operate in Hong Kong for at least one year can now apply to the Tech Voucher Programme (TVP). Subsidy up to $200,000 will be provided on a 2:1 matching basis. Funding areas under the voucher programme include: technology consultancy; purchase, rental or subscription of customised equipment or hardware, software and technological services or solutions.

Check out our info kit here and the official guidance note to know more about the TVP. I will closely monitor the implementation of the voucher programme and identify the areas for improvement. You are welcomed to write to me about any issues you see in the TVP.

Policy proposals to the government

The government is soliciting views on the 2017 Policy Address and 2017-2018 Budget and each year I will submit to the government a list of policy and funding proposals to elevate the sector growth and push forward the innovation and technology development in Hong Kong.

I have submitted a proposal comprising 20 key recommendations on 10 areas, including: IT Talents And Employment Support Programme to foster partnership between IT businesses and universities to train more IT specialists; $1-billion InnoTech Studies Fund; establishing Technology and Law Reform Committee, InnoTech & Economic Transformation Working Group; creating Startups Accreditation Programme, Digital Marketplace Trial to help startups and SMEs win projects; overhauling the STEM education; establishing a Smart City Sandbox for innovative developments; increasing land supply for technology development and more. Your views are appreciated.

How to protect you against Android phone loss/theft

(1) At Android smartphone
1. Select “Settings” icon, then “Location and security”
2. Select “Device administration”
3. Enable “Android Device Manager”
(2) At PC
1. Go to https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
2. Login your Android related Gmail account
3. Now you can LOCATE, RING or LOCK your phone or ERASE your phone’s data in case of theft or loss.

由即日起，香港中旅社為應付港人於中國內地遺失回鄉卡/證的情況，現可替港人即日辦妥出境證件(即臨時入出境通行證)。 因此，如在內地失卡，必須於當日下午3:30前到羅湖補卡中心代辦補領手續一般來說，可即日領取臨時入出境通行證返港，免遭滯留內地。如於當日黃昏及/或晚上才到羅湖補卡中心代辦補領手續則可於第二天中午12:30前領取臨時入出境通行證返港。
該補卡中心之地址及辦公時間如下：
地址：羅湖中旅社補領中心 ─ 連廊2樓C4室 (即羅湖商業城對面)
辦公時間：星期一至星期日(上午8:30至下午9:30)
查詢電話 : 852-2334-8833 或 86-755-8234-7136
費用：人民幣230-250元(如能提供證件相片2張，費用為人民幣 230元，否則需支付人民幣250元)
補領手續及時間由中旅社作最後的決定。返港後 , 必須到香港的中旅社辦理補領回鄉卡的手續。
中旅社亦提醒市民到內地前應影印身份證、回鄉卡及護照。如對以上有任何問題, 請致電 852-2334-8833 或 86-755-8234-7136作出查詢。