Microsoft Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (70-496) Practice Exam

I failed a different cert last year from under-preparing. Didn’t make that mistake here — finished the set, then sat.

Passed 70-496 after using this as my primary drill set. Official docs for gaps, practice for fluency.

Real exam felt like a continuation of practice, not a surprise quiz. That’s rare with prep materials.

Clearer than the free PDFs floating around. Explanations actually cite the reasoning instead of just restating the answer.

I paired this with the vendor docs for anything I didn’t fully understand. Combo worked — first-attempt pass.

Did one domain at a time until accuracy stayed above ~80%, then mixed sets. Passed Administering Visual Studio Team Foundat….

No nonsense. Questions, answers, explanations. That’s what I wanted for Administering Visual Studio Team Foundat….

Worked through incorrect options even when I got the item right. Slowed me down, but scores climbed.

I compared a few providers; this one had fewer typos and better distractors. That decided it for me.

Had about a month. Finished the set once, then a second pass on bookmarked misses. That was enough.

Scored in the mid-80s on my last practice run, booked the exam that week, and passed. Good calibration tool.

Passed with a comfortable margin. I wouldn’t skip the harder items — those taught the most.

Passed 70-496. Coverage of the core domains was strong; I wanted a few more obscure edge cases before exam day.

I tracked domains in a spreadsheet while practicing. Once every column was green, I booked the test.

Bought this mainly for the explanations. Memorizing letters never worked for me; understanding the tradeoffs did.

I passed. If they expand the hard-tier items, I’d give it a full five. Still recommend it for prep.

The feedback after each question kept me honest. Easy to fool yourself with “I’ll look it up later.”

Cleared 70-496. Good explanations overall — a small number were vague about why the distractor failed.

Short review: good questions, better explanations, passed 70-496. Moving on to the next cert next quarter.

The distractors here are sneaky in a good way. Taught me to read the last sentence of each stem carefully.

Used full-length timed sessions twice. Time management was my issue; those drills fixed it before 70-496.

I’m not a natural test-taker. Repetition here reduced the panic factor more than anything else.

Some questions are harder than the real ones, which I appreciated. Made exam day feel manageable.

Took a week off between finishing the bank and the exam — reviewed notes only. Still felt prepared.

Not every question is perfect, but the set as a whole prepared me well. First-try pass.

Solid coverage of the domains I cared about. A couple niche topics were light, but core material was strong.

Had 70-496 on my plate for a promotion. This set kept prep structured when my schedule was messy.

Cleared Administering Visual Studio Team Foundat…. A couple topics felt light compared to what showed up, though overall prep was good.

Passed 70-496. If you’re already familiar with the domain, this is enough volume to get exam-ready without fluff.

Used the bookmark feature heavily. My “wrong twice” list became the only thing I studied the final two days.

I’m mid-career and rusty at multiple-choice. This got me back into the rhythm without wasting evenings.

Not flashy, just solid practice. Instant feedback made it easy to fix weak domains before exam day.

Passed after roughly 18 hours of practice here. I skipped a few easy domains and poured time into the hard ones.

Cleared it. Wish I’d found this before wasting money on a video course that barely touched the exam style.

Passed yesterday. The “same questions” feel people mention is more about patterns than literal copies — still very helpful.

Explanations are concise — not essay-length walls of text. Easy to revise on a commute.

Scored lower on early practice runs than I liked. Kept going; the curve bent up before exam week.

Got me through on the first attempt. Four stars only because a handful of explanations felt thinner than the rest.

I liked seeing both easy confidence-builders and nasty edge cases in the same bank.

Booked 70-496 two days after my last practice run. Confidence was high enough that waiting would have just added anxiety.

I work in a related role already, so I needed exam-style practice more than theory. This hit that need.

Four stars: strong overlap with real exam style, minor wish-list for more cost/architecture tradeoff scenarios.

The practice mode is what sold me — check the answer, read the explanation, move on. Cleared 70-496 without needing a second attempt.

Useful main drill set. I’d add more timed full-length mocks, but the question quality is solid.

Cleared 70-496 after bouncing off another site’s poorly written questions. Quality of stems matters.

Passed Administering Visual Studio Team Foundat…. Several questions on the live test used the same decision patterns I had already practiced here.

I failed 70-496 once with random dumps. Switched to this set, focused on explanations, and passed three weeks later. Night-and-day difference.

Reviewed bookmarked questions the morning of the exam. That last pass over my weak spots was useful.

Sat the exam in a testing center; nothing on the screen felt alien. Practice here had covered the style.

Realistic enough that exam day wasn’t a shock. Knocked one star off for a few outdated-feeling stems.

After finishing, I could explain answers out loud — good sign I wasn’t just pattern-matching letters.

Supportive without being cheesy. Just clear write-ups when you miss. Cleared the exam last Friday.

Quietly effective. No hype in the product, which oddly made me trust the material more.

Good for last-mile prep if you already know the product. Don’t expect a full course; expect exam practice.

Passed after practicing here. Would love domain filters that persist better, but content-wise it delivered.

Took me longer than planned because I kept re-doing wrong answers until they stuck. Worth it — passed first try.

Passed. Tell a friend who’s stuck in tutorial hell to switch to practice questions sooner.

Marked a bunch of questions, then filtered to those only. Fixed three weak areas in a weekend and sat the exam Monday.

I was weak on the longer case-style items. Drilling those here closed the gap; scored comfortably over the cut.

I came from a non-traditional background. Structured practice here made the exam feel learnable.