My passing score was 928 (pass was 700) so I passed comfortably – which is a very nice feeling and something I’ve maintained in all the exams I’ve taken with Microsoft so far. I now have 1 more to go and then I get my MCSA exam. This exam was quite different to the ones I’ve done before – there were 45 questions and about 10 (or more) were simulation exams. Personally I like these questions as it’s a lot easier to recognise the process needed to go through as opposed to the previous “drag and drop to put in order” box questions where you have to remember the exact wording on the dialog boxes that in real life you pay little attention to as you use them every day.
After 20 questions the screen froze, for ever, and ever and ever. Eventually I went out to see the receptionist but when I came back the machine was waiting for the next question – it takes a long time to load some of the simulation questions. I was really nervous at this point as the first 20 questions were easy and I was confident I had about 19 of them correct. I really didn’t want to start again.
After this scare the questions seemed to get harder but a lot of them were similar to the questions in the official MS press books and there were some questions I had seen that were identical to various test prep software solutions although I didn’t use the MeasureUp software for this exam which I have used in the past. Now it’s onto 70-291….
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Congratulations, that is pretty awesome.
Good for you!
You may now pray for me at the end of January when I take my Bootcamp! I’m finally getting off my butt and getting my MCSE, including Security and A+ Security. I’m even going to be allowed to take the upgrade exams for 2008! 14 days in Miami. I’m probably going to hand around another day just to explore Miami a bit. I think a day of play after that is in order.
Wow Bryan thats some intense training you have there. I find even one week of normal training is pretty draining, let alone 2 and all of those exams. Must cost a bit too eh?
Yeah, it’t not going to be cheap, a little over 6K including class, breakfast, lunch and hotel, and not including transportation (I’ll be driving the 362+ miles there) and dinners.
I’ve been doing this for decades, and hopefully this holds up longer than my 3+Wizard certification held up (ie, not long at all!)
I’m psyched!