Circuit City paying for 70-271 cert!
gone2toyko
Member Posts: 9 ■□□□□□□□□□
in MCDST
Well, I am happy to say that my employer is paying for my 70-271 testing! Aparently it's part of our PC Services department becoming certified HP, Sony, and Toshiba repair specialists. I don't really see how the two correlate, but I will keep my mouth shut! 
Problem is that C.C. (in all of thier wisdom) have only provided the Microsoft E-Learning materials... which basically just explains the objectives.
I just purchased the Microsoft Press MCDST (70-271) Self-Paced Training kit, and I just wanted to share how great of a learning tool this is for anyone studying for this test. I have an excellent knowledge of Windows XP Home and Professional dealing with normal user problems (and by normal I mean Home and small business users), however I never bothered to learn about things such as: Group policies and Active Directory settings, setting up users to connect properly to Domains, and so forth.
To back up in time, after finishing the Microsoft E-learning program I fealt confident that I knew the course and would surely pass this cert on my companies buck. After taking my first Measure-up practice test... I'll admit I was a bit confused. Confused as to why the E-Learning taught almost none of the material covered on he test. Angry, I went out and bought a study guide online and it also was almost no help.
This book by microsoft press is a very easy read, everything is very well put and written logically (important), and also I like how they teach a little bit of how a DST's attitude should be towards users. Alot of the Techs I have worked with in the past have just made our customers feel like crap, and that's not good business. It may be hard not to laugh when they call a tower a "modem" or something similar, but bad news to outright make customers feel stupid.
In closing, I want to wish anyone studying for this cert good luck! I have been reading for 3 days now and have 3 chapters to go, so I plan on taking my test within the next two-three weeks.
Wish me luck!
Randy O.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735620652/qid=1152826947/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-7743605-0056757?n=507846&s=pc&v=glance
Problem is that C.C. (in all of thier wisdom) have only provided the Microsoft E-Learning materials... which basically just explains the objectives.
I just purchased the Microsoft Press MCDST (70-271) Self-Paced Training kit, and I just wanted to share how great of a learning tool this is for anyone studying for this test. I have an excellent knowledge of Windows XP Home and Professional dealing with normal user problems (and by normal I mean Home and small business users), however I never bothered to learn about things such as: Group policies and Active Directory settings, setting up users to connect properly to Domains, and so forth.
To back up in time, after finishing the Microsoft E-learning program I fealt confident that I knew the course and would surely pass this cert on my companies buck. After taking my first Measure-up practice test... I'll admit I was a bit confused. Confused as to why the E-Learning taught almost none of the material covered on he test. Angry, I went out and bought a study guide online and it also was almost no help.
This book by microsoft press is a very easy read, everything is very well put and written logically (important), and also I like how they teach a little bit of how a DST's attitude should be towards users. Alot of the Techs I have worked with in the past have just made our customers feel like crap, and that's not good business. It may be hard not to laugh when they call a tower a "modem" or something similar, but bad news to outright make customers feel stupid.
In closing, I want to wish anyone studying for this cert good luck! I have been reading for 3 days now and have 3 chapters to go, so I plan on taking my test within the next two-three weeks.
Wish me luck!
Randy O.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735620652/qid=1152826947/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-7743605-0056757?n=507846&s=pc&v=glance
Comments
-
dan87951
Member Posts: 107
I just bought a similar book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735622272/102-3294214-7864114?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
and started practing as well. Somebody on here posted a free link to the e-learning website for this course and you are correct just the website covers the outline in the course you really need the book to do well. I don't think it will be to bad of a test, but will see. GOod Luck!
