290 Exam in waiting

Finished reading the Sybex book in 1 month. Have lab set up at home 1 2003 Domain controller. 1 XP Pro desktop. From reading book i feel quite a lot of it will be similar to the XP exam, anyone with past experience of doing both exams, any input of the difficulty between the 2 exams.

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skully93

I'd be interested too, since the 290 is next for me, and I'd like to wipe it out quickly, yet still learn it.

Metaldave

A good friend of mine said the XP exam was harder. He took them both around the same time. He has alot of MS exams under his belt though..

skully93

My mentors at Techskills said that it was different because there were tons of simulation questions.

They theorized, but have no concrete evidence, that you get docked here and there for using Icons on the desktop to access things during simulations, so make sure to go the Start> route

Trailerisf

270 is more basic in concepts, but requires alot more misc info.
290 elaborates on topics from 270 in more detail.

If you nail 270, 290 is really not that hard.

PurdueTom

Good luck all...

I am also planning to take the 290 exam in a few weeks. I studied the M$ Press book on the 290 and blew threw more than half of it because it mirrored the 270.

I anticipate the test will hit hard on managing groups and backup/recovery. I have really just focused my efforts on the backup and recovery.