Am I being thrown in the deep end, is this doable?
I just got back from a job interview for a system engineer position.
Now let me preface this by saying, I didn't actually apply for this job, my sister works next door and handed over my CV because she knows I'm looking. When they mailed me about a system engineer position I indicated to them that I would probably fit more into a junior-sysadmin role.
They deal with medical imaging storage/retrieval/presentation. During the interview I let them know I'm eager to learn and am quick at picking new things up. I also re-iterated the "junior" thing.
Now the interviewers conferred and decided the best way to test if I can learn quickly enough is to have me do an MS 70-410 exam, monday after next. The exact timeframe they gave me was monday 17/08 to start preparing, and monday 24/08 to take the exam. (they'd be paying for all of this btw)
My current knowledge level of MS server deals mostly in AD user/device/gpo management, my last position was that of 2nd line onsite support, mostly dealing with user infrastructure.
Is this at all doable? Thoughts? If I left out some info let me know.
Edit: https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/exam-70-410.aspx
Edit2: Thanks for letting me know this is perfectly doable. They suggested I get the book and just follow it completely, any thoughts on that?
Posted Aug 12, 2015, 3:17 PM UTC · edited