70-291 books and a quick question

frede

I agree with many of you regarding the books. The EC2, which i will not waste my time reading, seems to be 30% shy of the topics one would need to study. The Syngress has so many errors that i lost faith and bailed after 75 pages. I am now down to the MS Press which seems ok i guess...we will see.

Now my question: Is the scientific calculator available when taking the 70-291 exam? It was available when i sat for the 70-290 last week, which i managed to pass even though the PC crashed 5 times - yep crashed after EVERY sim. Yes, I did pray during the reboots. Anyway, i just want to be sure about the calculator. I do not want any additional suprises.

Thanks
Fred

12thlevelwarrior

i am also wondering the same thing, would hate to have to manually do 2 to the nth power.

seuss_ssues

yes the calc is there for all ms exams .



but surely you can do 2 to the nth power?

2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
16384
32768

etc

frede

Thanks for the info.

Is it just me, or does all the studying for these exams make the brain more powerful - i mean not just for IT, but for anything. I studied for 4 weeks and passed 70-290, so i took a week long break before starting 70-291. During that time i read the manual that came with my new Digital SLR camera - was like a hot knife going through butter. Aperture, White Balance, Exposure, Sutter Speed, Depth of Field all made complete sense to me on the first read - a cake walk compared to this exam stuff.

Hmm... so really MS exams are your friend.

LOL
Fred

solo79

NO! The scientific calc is NOT available on the 291 test!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only the standard windows calc. You will need to remember the charts and the mathmatics.......

I know cause the first time I took it, I was hot that I had read that it was available but it was not..... Then I read in the book, I don't remember which Exam Cram or MS Press that it was not. I finally passed on the second go without the sci calc.

Beefchief

A good tip would be to write out the powers of 2 from right to left before/when the exam starts.

DON'T FORGET THE FIRST POWER OF 2 = 2^0 = 1!

iankf

Beefchief wrote:

A good tip would be to write out the powers of 2 from right to left before/when the exam starts.

DON'T FORGET THE FIRST POWER OF 2 = 2^0 = 1!

Now im confused I use calculator to work out the powers of

12thlevelwarrior

of course i could do the powers manually, but if the calc is there i am going to use it

if it is there is yet to be seen, i'll try and find confirmation and get back with info...

iankf

feeling a bit silly but long time since done maths how do i work out the power to something

iankf

lol i found it out lol bad memory 2x2x2x2x2 dah

grey fox

You can do 2nth power using the normal Windows calc.

Just do 2x2 and keep clicking = or Enter for the calculation you neeg

e.g. to calculate 2 to the power of 4 - enter 2x2 and click = or enter 3 times et voila.

Hope this helps.

frede

No doubt number power is easy, but that's not all the scientific can do for you. It is also good for other things like quick binary/decimal and dec/binary conversions. Is this stuff easy to do manually....sure, but it's also easy to make a stupid mistake. This exam has been rightfully descrided as a beast, so need one needs all the help one can get. Help meaning the not CHEATING kind of help.

I am still not 100% sure if the Windows scientific calc will be on the exam PC, Although "Solo79" seems to be sure very it is not. Guess i will go with that and plan for it not being there... unless i hear otherwise.

Thanks
Fred

jpeezy55

If you are able to use a calculator, then the exam will activate the Calculator button...they will determine what kind it is, you have no choice...just use whatever they give you. I took 291 a few months ago and don't recall the scientific calculator being available, just the standard one - Microsoft is not going to make it easy for us, we all know that.

The sims killed me on 291, but that's a different story. 'Nother topic, 'Nother time...