u/Million_X

As someone who has difficulty studying, I passed the AZ-900

As someone who has difficulty studying, I passed the AZ-900

I'll try to keep this brief. Long story short, I have a hard time studying, not going to speculate, here's what I went through and I hope it helps others who are similar, I scored a 794. All in all, took me a month (see below if you want the full story, not necessary though)

  • First: I went through two separate playlists, Tech Pub's entire exam prep course, and John Savill's playlist and wrote down notes while watching both of their videos.
  • Second, I went through the practice exams on Tutorialsdojo (comb over the ENTIRE thing, I found out 5 days prior to taking my test that the 3 exam topic things all covered different questions)
  • Third, I made flashcards off of questions I got regularly incorrect on TD.
  • Fourth, I used Gemini but ONLY to thoroughly double check my info.

TD's wording of the questions and material was shockingly similar to the exam for a good bit of it, but it obviously wasn't 1 to 1. I scored an average of about 80% before I scheduled my test (and in a panic went through the other exam things as many times as I could and luckily still got about a 75-85%). It's worth going through and getting.

However, my suggestion on top of that is to take down the questions you encounter, plus the answers, and put them in something, a spreadsheet, a word editor, and track how often you encounter that question (the more thorough you are with tracking, the better). It started to get to a point with me where I was remembering the answer but not WHY, which I knew was going to trip me up.

My notes from the videos was whatever they said, including a lot of overlapping and rewriting info I already took down. I suspect there's some stuff that's out of date, so seeing if there's anything official from Microsoft would be helpful, I already know a few videos from Savill's playlist are no longer covered in the AZ-900 which some of the comments pointed out (its around video #20), while Tech Pub's prep course is a good bit more up to date. Writing it down several times helped drill a lot of that info into me.

When it comes to studying, one thing I should've embraced more were flashcards - I only really did it near the end so I don't have a lot of them. However drilling the information as much as I did helped to solidify the concepts I was super weak to, like a week ago I wouldn't have remembered anything about defense in depth or anything.

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This is where I kinda go over about HOW I studied, the above is everything I did, but my biggest issue is that I only ever put so much time a day into each attempt at studying - I maybe got onto a roll and did it for two hours a day at most but on average it was 30 minutes on the low, 60 on the high. Maybe it was actually way more than that, I couldn't really keep a track because I did so mainly at work (weird af hours, getting interrupted while studying, replaying sections, it all added up to a mess), but it certainly didn't feel like I made a lot of progress. I'm easy to distract, its hard for me to get back on track, overall it was a crappy experience and it took me roughly a month to get to this point.

I wish I could provide more help but really all I can do is say that your best bet is to try to block out periods of time where you're focusing entirely on studying, try to do at least 2 hours a day and if nothing else block them out in chunks, like four half hour sessions, or six sessions of 20 minutes, like JUST enough to get through a video or two and write down your notes. In between each session spend like 10-20 minutes away, just enough to sort of readjust your focus, constantly setting alarms and times for everything - if you're on a roll with studying and you just knocked out like 40 minutes worth of video while also writing notes down and you can keep going, hammer on and stop when you start to drift around. For certain things writing them down on a flash card can help with recalling the information much sooner, notes are great when you're sitting in bed and you're reading up on what you went over while the cards can actively test your ability. If you do have difficulty studying things, my honest recommendation is to talk with a doctor. It could be ADHD, it could be something completely different, I spoke with my doc a few months ago and apparently thyroid problems can cause focusing issues along with memory problems, it's not always going to be one single thing.

In the mean time, don't beat yourself up over it. If you can find videos on youtube that can help address your focusing problem by providing better managing techniques, just remember that step one is always starting the thing to begin with. I pretty much stated all this mainly to at least help show that even if you can't focus on studying worth a darn, it IS possible. I've had zero cloud experience and my last dealings with tech exams was about 2.5 years ago getting a comptia cert and not being able to actually apply it, so this is something you can just jump into. I know this is a giant wall of text but I also don't know how to talk to people with attention problems, but if nothing else hopefully someone goes 'ok, if this guy can do it then so can I, let's learn from their mistakes'.

u/Million_X — 2 days ago

OP16 Yamato v0.1

So there's 7 cards that have yet to be revealed for Black as a whole and it isn't guaranteed that they'll all be Wano cards or even cards Yamato would want to run to begin with. Of the possible cards that she'd want, it seems like the best ones would be cards that can KO her own board - a 2c that does it would actually be perfect for a variety of reasons.

That being said, I feel like THIS is about as close to an actual Yamato core that will develop in the end. Hakuba is cope, yes, but if it goes off, it goes off. Perona can protect the whole deck except the 8cs, Ground Death is a good negate and +4k if nothing else, and the Sabo is either a nice 6k blocker for 3 or a 2k counter. Obviously if better in-house cards that fulfill the same role show up then they'd be included over whatever was in here, even if the Hakuba replacement is weaker or has a worse effect, as long as it KOs one of your own guys and it's a Wano type, you'll run it.

I suspect this'll be about the kind of ratio that Yamato will at least start out with, the more ways you can loop the Unblockable Yamato into the 6c the better, while a way or two of making sure that the 6c Yamato doesn't get taken out by some random trigger helps keep the loop stable.

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u/Million_X — 4 days ago

Is there a map of Azure for the Az-900?

Looking to see if somewhere there's a map of Azure's structure but JUST for the topics covered in the AZ 900, sadly my Google fu is too weak to find it

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u/Million_X — 6 days ago

Need some history and help for a father's day gift

so first, not a baseball guy, but this is for my dad who is. His favorite team is the Cleveland Guardians and for father's day I want to get him something related to the team but is something more than just a random jersey of a current player or a little bobblehead of the mascot, etc.

If a 'hall of fame' of Ohio baseball players existed, who are/would be some of the members of that and what made them such great players? And if anyone has any other suggestions for meaningful father's day gifts, I'd appreciate it. It's been a hell of a year and I want to make this one a bit more memorable than a steak dinner

EDIT: So I should probably mention that neither of us live in Ohio at all, he's from there though, but the idea about going to a game DID give me the idea to try to find a giant poster of the stadium itself.

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u/Million_X — 7 days ago

Still need help with xaaS and Redundancy Storage topics for the AZ-900

So for starters I want to say I get CONCEPTUALLY what xaaS is about, I is just them handling the physical computer stuff, P is setting up a bit more, while S is full-on apps and such. I also get that conceptually Redundancy Storage is about splitting up the data in different ways, but I feel like based on the test questions from TutorialDojo, just understanding these topics on a surface level is nowhere near enough.

Example, one of the questions I've run into with the test questions in TutorialDojo was "your company wants to migrate to Azure but there's a strict requirement that the Azure environment must only be comprised of PaaS solutions to minimize the amount of admin effort in managing the underlying resources. Solution: deploy the apps using the Azure App Service and migrate the data to Azure SQL Database. True or False". According to TD, it's True, problem is I don't know how I'd know that if asked because every piece of training I've gone over has not indicated to me how that works, TD states that IaaS examples is just VMs, PaaS is Azure Storage, SQL Databases, and App Service, while SaaS is Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online, and Teams. If that question gets rephrased, how would I know about answering the question? If I get asked something like 'select the options that enable the service to be a PaaS solution' or some junk, I want to know how I'd be able to pick out the right answer. Is that question just requiring me to know a list of different solutions that fall under each of the xaaS? THAT is the kind of detail I want to look for

Unless someone who just took the AZ-900 can tell me that the actual test really only DOES care about the bare basics, I need a far more in-depth view on the topics.

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u/Million_X — 10 days ago

So while Nightmare Luffy would have to be blown up by the Big Five, I figure that having him on the board would be fairly potent: 17c means he's immune to every cost based effect, setting his base power to 9k puts him out of range of a lot of stuff, and setting Imu's base power to 7k on the opponent's turn while he's out makes it that much harder for my opponent to actually climb over and hit me.

I'm assuming others have tested this so I'm curious what the reason why it isn't ran would be

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u/Million_X — 15 days ago

Simply put I am awful with knowing the differences of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS along with the redundancy storage topics and I've tried a few people but they don't explain it in a way that makes sense to me, and they don't seem to relate to how the questions on tutorialdojo are asked, so whatever resources and such people have on those topics would be appreciated

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u/Million_X — 15 days ago

I'm tired, it's way past the time I should be asleep, but times like this are when its fun to make decks.

Only two characters to my name, literally everything else is about just saying 'fuck you' to my opponent's board. Even the two characters are Megalo. Honesty Impact says 'fuck you for being a 10k or less', Fire Fist says 'fuck you for being immune to effect destruction', Divine Departure says 'fuck you for being an 8k or less', Ace says you deserve it says 'fuck you for being a 6k or less', Just Watch Me Ace says 'fuck you I'm putting you in range of everything', Barrier Bull says 'fuck you you need to be at 7+ to hit me so fuck you weenies'.

I call it the 'Giant Flaming Middle Finger', I could probably swap out a number of cards that have to do with rested characters that don't do a whole lot but right now this is what I got and I'm headin to bed.

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u/Million_X — 17 days ago

and for those who've gotten it, does it also tell you what sections you were the weakest in? It's getting to be that point where I'm going to need it so the more info about what it does besides ask questions the better.

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u/Million_X — 21 days ago