Scheduled for Next Friday (updated --> Passed)

ajs1976

Not sure if i'm ready, but I have been putting it off for a long time. I just don't care for the material that the exam covers. If it wasn't for already passing 217 & 219, I would just skip it and take 218 instead. This should be my last exam for the 2000 track, because my NT 4.0 electives are supposed to count, but I will believe that when I see it on my transcript.

10/2000 - Pro
8/2002 - Server
4/2003 - AD
6/2003 - Designing AD

Megadeth4168

Best of luck to you!
I actually found this exam to be easier than everyone made it out to be.... And for myself personally, I found it to be far easier than the 219.

I think the biggest thing to know is DNS and especially how DNS and DHCP work together.

7255carl

best of luck

ajs1976

A little less then three hours to go. I wasn't very amused, when I realized that I scheduled the exam for Friday the 13th.

Megadeth4168

Good Luck!
I'm sure you will do fine! Even if it is Friday the 13th! *sigh* I was actually planning to take the 219 again today.... But, I've not been hitting the new book that hard yet.

ajs1976

Passed. I did well on WINS, DNS, and DHCP, but not that great on the other topics. I'm glad to finally have this one behind me.

If my electives do count towards the 2000 track, I will go to 292 next. If not, I will be going for Security+.

Megadeth4168

Congrats!

janmike

Congratulations!

ajs1976

thanks everyone


I checked my transcript this morning and the exam and MCSE 2000 are both showing.

royal

Excellent! Congrats and enjoy your new MCSE certificatioin!

ITdude

Congrats and good luck with the upgrade exams!!

Mishra

I'm confused why people are still going for this certification. It will be retired March 2008 (9 months away).

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcpexams/status/examstoretire.mspx

ajs1976

Mishra wrote:

I'm confused why people are still going for this certification. It will be retired March 2008 (9 months away).

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcpexams/status/examstoretire.mspx

because I only had one exam left and completing it will allow me to take the upgrade exams instead of taking the 4 core Windows 2003 exams.

Gabe7055

Congrats!! and good luck with the upgrades. Don't let 70-292 scare you, if you can get past it 70-296 is a breeze.

Mishra

ajs1976 wrote:

Mishra wrote:

I'm confused why people are still going for this certification. It will be retired March 2008 (9 months away).

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcpexams/status/examstoretire.mspx

because I only had one exam left and completing it will allow me to take the upgrade exams instead of taking the 4 core Windows 2003 exams.

The upgrade path goes away in 9 months too so hurrrrrrrrrrrrrry.

ITdude

There are many people out there who certified originally under NT4, that want/wanted to keep the continuity of their MCSE certification. ie: NT4----Windows 2000----Windows 2003----Windows 2008 and beyond....

The other possibility is that they are still using a W2K network. So, there is a method to the madness!

sprkymrk

Additionally, it's just the exams going away. Anyone certified before that time will still be certified afterwards too.

ITdude

yup!

Venture37

woohoo!!!
I passed the 70-216 today aswell, scored 753, glad to see very few questions on legacy protocols & lots of questions on technologies/protocols which are still used today. I did sweat it though & thought that I'd be sitting this exam once again!

http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27701

Now onto 70-217!

Then 70-219,220,221 then upgrade to 2003 before the end of March 2008

7255carl

congrats

Venture37

thanks man

ITdude

Congrats and good job!

globalsaloon

same here with this test, took this past weekend failed miserable with a 570, anyone have tips, resources, used testing materials for sale? Used just the MS book and Exam Cram so far.