Test tomorrow.. 5-29.. nervous as heck

Hey there everyone, I have been prowling these forums like mad for the last 6 or so months. I have been studying pretty much on and off since late december. I feel like I have a good grasp on the material, and I have been doing pretty well with the transcenders (a bit above 70%'s on average), and have been hammering out final rough points these last few weeks.
I have read the suggestions for what to do the day of the test, and it seems all well and good, but I have a horrible knack for sitting down for a test and then either going to fast and obviously missing to much or going to slow and not finishing.
First off do you think I have a prayer with my consistant scores of in the 70's sometimes higher sometimes lower and an occassional 80, it sucks when I get one wrong and I know as soon as I see it why I got it wrong but I really feel like I know it and its just something stupid that got to me.
I have almost a year of real world experience and a degree in CS which are fine and dandy but when it comes to these tests its like they just try and find a way to kick you in the nuts.
Not much to this post I spose, but I thought I would ramble and make an appearance the day before the test. Thanks for all the inspiring posts out there. Wish me luck, I will report tomorrow.
I have read the suggestions for what to do the day of the test, and it seems all well and good, but I have a horrible knack for sitting down for a test and then either going to fast and obviously missing to much or going to slow and not finishing.
First off do you think I have a prayer with my consistant scores of in the 70's sometimes higher sometimes lower and an occassional 80, it sucks when I get one wrong and I know as soon as I see it why I got it wrong but I really feel like I know it and its just something stupid that got to me.
I have almost a year of real world experience and a degree in CS which are fine and dandy but when it comes to these tests its like they just try and find a way to kick you in the nuts.
Not much to this post I spose, but I thought I would ramble and make an appearance the day before the test. Thanks for all the inspiring posts out there. Wish me luck, I will report tomorrow.
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Thanks for finally posting. Let us know how it goes.
i'm just lazy is all. but i really wish they wouldn't give you info in the questions that doesn't need to be there in the first place. i'm fairly certain by the 18th question that i KNOW i'm an "administrator" or a "help desk" person. even my dog knows these things by now.
bygones. good luck tomorrow!
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I don't have any specific MS advice for you.... but try to relax and get a good nights sleep.
Finally got my Linux system to run it last night, and I'm going to play around with unattended install stuff when I get off work in a few hours.
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Lets hope its not just one person with a multiple personality!
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Most the questions you are going to get will probably be 2-3 paragraphs! Yeah, they are long questions filled with a ton of information.... Out of that information you usually need to dig out only about a sentence or 2 of information relevant to the actual question being asked. Regardless, you should read the entire question, once you start skipping around while reading, you start to miss out on relevant information. If it helps, look at the answers first and try to get a feel as to what it is that they are asking.
The following works for me, it's just a suggestion. Chew gum during the exam. This helps calm my nerves and I honestly believe that this has helped me stay focused in every exam that I have done using that advice.
Ha, I did the same thing during my Network + test. It was a breeze deciphering all the questions. Too bad I forgot to chew gum when I took the Security+ test (twice).
Working on: Waiting on the mailman to bring me a diploma
What's left: Graduation![/size]
Ah ha! An excuse to stop at Starbucks for a Peppermint Mocha before the exam!
I owe you one Royal.
Haven't tried that yet, but it sounds good!
I'm new in the forum and preparing for the Exam as well, this is an exciting forum and I've been touched by members posts. I'm a working IT professional and must admit being sometimes unable to read because of work related issues or tiredness.
For those of us taking the exam these days, we would like to know which kind of questions you got? which kind of materials may have helped you most and aproximately how long it took you to prepare for the Exam.
Also I think I forgot, how many questions are we getting for the Exam?
Thanks and everyone contribution will be highly appreciated
I used a little over and hour and 10 minutes and ended up getting an 889. I felt like I wanted to yelp when I saw it but figured that would throw the guy next to me off so I waited
Thanks for all the advice on these forums my tidbits
1. Know your security template stuff I had a few on that
2. Disk management top to bottom, it was all over for me
3. Firewall stuff, just know it all here
the rest was a mix of installs and ntfs stuff..
Used... MS Press (sparsley to clarify topics) Exam Cram, Transcenders (nice) and some TestOut vids.
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That gives you the MCP, right? Are you going to update your profile certifications? Or are you waiting until you fill it out some more?
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MCP (282 - 270 - 284 - 290 - 291 - 293 - 294 - 298 - 299 - 350)
MCTS (351 - 620 - 622 - 647 - 649 - 671)
MCSA / S / M - MCSE / S
MCITP (EST - EA ) - MCT
A+ - IBM - SBSS2K3 - CISCO_SMB
CompTIA : A+
That what we expect everyone to do, share your experience with others. That really helps those of us still preparing to sit for the exam
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