For the exam, I was given 50 questions and a 150-minute time limit which is fairly standard for most Microsoft and Azure exams. There were no labs in my exam and all questions were in the usual formats: Multiple-choice, drag and drop, fill in the blanks etc… You should however ensure you are prepared for performance-based testing (or labs) as your experience may differ from mine.

There were really no overbearing questions, most of them were short and sweet and maybe a couple of sentences long at most, with the exception of the case studies, of which there were 2. Again nothing we probably do not already know.

I feel the exam was very heavy on the Hybrid scenarios, contrary to the 10-15% advertised by Microsoft in the skills outline. It was also very heavy on compliance, which does match up with what is advertised. So if you are not familiar with everything Exchange Hyrbid and compliance, definitely study up on them areas.

I know for a fact I totally bombed some of the yes/no questions you cannot return to, but all lessons learned… make sure you really take the time to read the questions, otherwise, once you move on, you may find the next question, invalidates the last or visa versa. 

Overall 70% of the questions I found quite easy, but that is just thanks to the fact I work on Exchange Online and Exchange on-premise daily and perform migrations between the two (back and forth…) quite often. The remaining 30% I struggled on was mostly around compliance… but that is the problem with working for a service provider who resolves that problem with 3rd party products.

Lastly, I want to say, if you have never worked with Exchange on-premise or managed hybrid scenarios, this exam is not for you! or at the very least try and get involved in hybrid Exchaneg before you look at this exam.