2.5. Exam Essentials

Know your subnetting.

The MCITP certification exam will probably not have you manually subnet an IPv4 address, but you should still know how to do it. This is important, because it gives you a strong foundation in the basics of networking and will help you more easily understand the complex situations you may be presented with on the certification exam.

Remember network server-based roles.

These include DHCP, DNS, and other server roles that are strictly networking-related. Microsoft expects you to have learned these technologies for your 70-642 exam; now you will be expected to have them perfected.

Know how to handle IPv6.

This includes IPv4 to IPv6 tunneling, IPv6 addressing, and the allocated space available in the 128-bit ...

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