For the Exam 70-638 or the Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (TS) exam for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring, the candidates must have at least a year of experience in utilizing Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. In addition, the candidates must have the same amount of experience using Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, as well as the other related technologies. Moreover, you will gain a competitive edge in this exam if you have acquired significant experience in configuring the Active Directory and its network infrastructure mechanism that sustain the use and the administration of Office Communications Server 2007. When you successfully acquire these requirements, you then become qualified to be a candidate for this exam. On the other hand, you still need to obtain the necessary skills for you to pass this test and gain significant advantages in your IT profession.

Credit Toward Certification

When you successfully pass this exam, you gain the Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist or MCTS for the Office Communications Server 2007, Configuration. This certification significantly boosts your career in IT. Consequently, you gain essential credits toward four different certifications in the IT field. One is the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator or MCSA on Windows 2003 Server and on Windows Server 2000. The other two are under the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer or MCSE certifications on Windows 2003 Server and on the Windows Server 2000. These other certifications will be achieved when you take other types of exams.

Fundamental Skills

Since this is all about the Communications Server version 2007, you need to acquire skills in all of its facets. Experts have determined the weights of the skills that you need to have in order to impress the important points on the examinees. The most important skill that you need to gain is given 20 percent and this is your ability to install and manage Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2. Acquiring this skill means that you are able to determine the discrepancies between the Enterprise and Standard edition, you are skillful in preparing the needed environment for this server version, and that you able to manage the coexistence of the MS Office Live Communications Server 2005 and the 2007 version.

The next important skill, which is 19 percent important, is being able to configure and deploy this server’s clients. You also need to be skillful in configuring external connectivity because this is 18 percent according to importance. The skill in configuring conferencing is assigned 15 percent, while your ability to organize enterprise voice functionality and your skill in maintaining this server type are both 14 percent according to importance.