Passed today

doom969

Hello everybody
I passed 70-293 today with a score of 890. I was hit very heavily on all things PKI and CA's. Quite a bit of IPSEC, Clusters and NLB also. I was surprised to get only one dns related question. A couple of GPO and AD sites questions and 2 ISA (?) questions.
4 sims, 1 clusters, 1 nlb, 1 ca, and 1 gpo.

Things I used to prepare :
Techexams (of course !)
MsPress book
Syngress book + DVD
ExamCram book + Test exams
SelfTest practice exam

Thanks to everyone !
PS if you plan to take this one, you NEED to lab a PKI infrastructure and NLB and clusters. Just reading about it wont cut it of you get as much questions (and sims) on those as i did.

Ty !

jbaello

1st of all congratulations, that is such an awesome score, for your 1st attempt.

I bought 4 external scsi hard drive, so I can configure cluster quorum/shared resource disk, so on the clustering did they ask about heartbeat latency questions as well?

doom969

Thanks !
Well I dont know how much I can really say with the NDA.
I cant go into specifics, but I did have Questions on heartbeat traffic.
So you should know about securing heartbeat traffic...

Sorry I cant help more....

jbaello

doom969 wrote:

Thanks !
Well I dont know how much I can really say with the NDA.
I cant go into specifics, but I did have Questions on heartbeat traffic.
So you should know about securing heartbeat traffic...

Sorry I cant help more....

This works very well, now I should make that I should go in depth with my heartbeat configurations period. :P thanks

snadam

congrats, youre on a tear!

homerj742

awesome score.

Right now I'm going through Syngress Book, CBT Nuggets, and MCSE Core Exams (O'reilly).

dsimons2001

doom969 wrote:

Hello everybody
I passed 70-293 today with a score of 890. I was hit very heavily on all things PKI and CA's. Quite a bit of IPSEC, Clusters and NLB also. I was surprised to get only one dns related question. A couple of GPO and AD sites questions and 2 ISA (?) questions.
4 sims, 1 clusters, 1 nlb, 1 ca, and 1 gpo.

Things I used to prepare :
Techexams (of course !)
MsPress book
Syngress book + DVD
ExamCram book + Test exams
SelfTest practice exam

Thanks to everyone !
PS if you plan to take this one, you NEED to lab a PKI infrastructure and NLB and clusters. Just reading about it wont cut it of you get as much questions (and sims) on those as i did.

Ty !

What is the best way to to lab a PKI infrastructure and NLB and clusters? Can I use VMWare to do this? How many machines and/or hard drives will I need? Currently I am studying for this exam using a P4 laptop w/ 1.5 GB of RAM and VMWare Workstation 6 setup with a Team of two DCs.

ajs1976

congrats

dsimons2001

I should also mention that my laptop only has a single integrated NIC. I believe that I need at least 2 NICs in order to setup a server cluster or a NLB cluster. Is that correct? If so, can it be done using VMWare? Sorry for the noob question, but I just started getting into the NLB and server cluster chapters of my Syngress book. THANKS.

dsimons2001

Oops. Sorry I didn't mean to hijack the thread. Congrats to the OP on the great score!!!

jbaello

dsimons2001 wrote:

I should also mention that my laptop only has a single integrated NIC. I believe that I need at least 2 NICs in order to setup a server cluster or a NLB cluster. Is that correct? If so, can it be done using VMWare? Sorry for the noob question, but I just started getting into the NLB and server cluster chapters of my Syngress book. THANKS.

Is this possible? vmware bridged? cluster heartbeat doesn't work with DHCP.

I don't think you can setup up cluster via vmware, it needs 2 NIC 1 private and the other public, private cannot have any other traffic broadcast, must be purely designated listening for the cluster nodes. and as far as I know when you bridge your network you assign it to be a DHCP, I've only use vmware server so far.

dsimons2001

jbaello wrote:

dsimons2001 wrote:

I should also mention that my laptop only has a single integrated NIC. I believe that I need at least 2 NICs in order to setup a server cluster or a NLB cluster. Is that correct? If so, can it be done using VMWare? Sorry for the noob question, but I just started getting into the NLB and server cluster chapters of my Syngress book. THANKS.

Is this possible? vmware bridged? cluster heartbeat doesn't work with DHCP.

I don't think you can setup up cluster via vmware, it needs 2 NIC 1 private and the other public, private cannot have any other traffic broadcast, must be purely designated listening for the cluster nodes. and as far as I know when you bridge your network you assign it to be a DHCP, I've only use vmware server so far.

I guess I will have to rethink how to do this then. I will have to add a NIC it sounds like. I should also mention that I am not using bridged networking in VMWare, but instead I am using a LAN segment which allows the two DCs to communicate.