Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Jump Start

1. Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Jump Start Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM

2. Meet Steven Borg | ‏@stevenborg • Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence • Specialize in helping organizations adopt lean-agile • Prefer TFS 2012 as my end-to-end ALM tool of choice • Background • Microsoft ALM MVP since 2005 • Contributing author to MOC 50430: Administering Team Foundation Server 2010 • Implemented Kanban and Scrum world-wide • Many years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer

3. Meet Anthony Borton | ‏@anthonyborton • ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM • Specialize in helping organizations adopt TFS • Full TFS 2010 & 2012 courses at www.alm-training.com • Background • MCT (since ’96), MCP (since ’93) • Completed 58 Microsoft exams (incl. 001) • Australia’s first Professional Scrum Developer trainer

4. Course Topics • Introduction • Exam Overview • Install and Configure TFS (Part 1) • Install and Configure TFS (Part 2) • Manage Team Foundation Server (Part 1) • Manage Team Foundation Server (Part 2) • Customize Team Foundation Server for Team Use • Administer Version Control • Wrap up

5. Setting Expectations • Target Audience • Developers • IT Professionals studying to take the 70-496 exam • Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material • Read the TFS install and administration guides available online at http://examcr.am/10Ln5E4

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8. 01 | Exam Overview Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence

9. Module Overview • Certification Overview • 70-496 Exam Summary • Skills being measured

10. Certification Overview

11. Path to MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management Exam70-496 Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 + Exam70-497 Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012 = + Exam70-498 Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management More information http://examcr.am/XFRXnR

12. Exam 70-496 Summary

13. Exam details Exam Details Page http://examcr.am/TyAYs3 Exam Code 70-496 Primary Audience IT Professionals, Developers Pass mark 700 Questions 48 Release Date September 25th, 2012

14. Audience Profile • Candidates typically work in an enterprise development organization that provides application lifecycle management services by using Team Foundation Server. . • The qualified candidate typically has: • a solid understanding of the Team Foundation Server architecture and components. • experience installing and configuring a Team Foundation Server in both single-server and multi-server configurations. • experience managing security for Team Foundation Server components. • experience configuring and using Team Foundation Build. • experience adapting process templates to an organization. • experience managing project artifacts with Team Foundation Server version control. • experience configuring and using Work Item tracking.

15. Skills Being Measured

16. Breakdown of key topic areas