Passed 291!!! What exam should I take next?

Well I just passed the 70-291 on my second try:
- First Attempt: 680
- Second Attempt: 900

For those trying to take the 70-291, here is my preparation method:

Prior to my first attempt:
- Experience: Day to Day management of servers in a medium sized network.
- Ms Press: Breezed through the book.
- TTC (The Training Consortium): Online classes purchased by my employer.

After failing the first exam:
- TestOut: I used this to re-review the entire course contents after my first attempt.
- Transcender: I did some hardcore practice exam taking for three days prior to the exam. The most valueable part was reading through the explanations of missed questions to obtain a thorough understanding.

NOW my question is:
Should I do the elective and get the MCSA? Or continue straight to the 70-293 because the subject matter is similiar to the 70-291?

My thoughts right now are I have crammed so much knowledge in my brain relating to DNS, DHCP, RRAS, IP Subnetting, etc... that now would be the best time to start studying for the 70-293.

Does anyone have any advice who's been through this already?

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ajs1976

Unless you need the MCSA right not for some reason (raise, job opportunity, etc), I would go for 293 because of the overlap.

royal

ajs1976 wrote:

Unless you need the right not for some reason (raise, job opportunity, etc), I would go for 293 because of the overlap.

+1 and congrats!

wpiersall

Royal is the master... 293 does have overlap

Have you taked 290 or 270?

291 being the hardest of this series... passing 270 & 290 would give you MCSA. If you goal is MCSE... then would be 293 after 270, 290 & 291. 293 is big on clustering.

JdotQ

Congratulations! Thanks for the rundown of the prep methods. Hopefully I can score that well on my upcoming attempt.

I've seen it mentioned in other threads that 293 has a great overlap of knowledge with 291. Like others have mentioned in this thread, unless your next test has to get you MCSA status, then go after 293.

Happy Studying

snadam

congrats on the pass my fellow 'statesman'

it all depends on what you want to do, but everyone here gives pretty good advice. I have no input as I have not taken 291 nor 293 yet.

az_golfer

Thanks for all of the advice guys. I'm going to go straight into the 293.

I am looking forward to "studying" rather than the insensive "cramming" I did the last few days.