Wooo! - I passed!

I passed my 70-290 exam today. I'm a MCP now!

There were 45 questions and it took me 2.5 hours to finished it. About 30 minutes were spent on reviewing the questions.

The hardest were the simulations (permissions) and terminal services questions.

Onto 70-270 XP next!

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cacharo

Congrats!

sprkymrk

Congrats!

Yes, TS questions can be difficult.

leefdaddy

Good work!

Daniel333

w007!

Glad to hear it, 70-270 next? Isn't that backward?

Gundamtdk

Daniel333 wrote:

w007!

Glad to hear it, 70-270 next? Isn't that backward?

I suspect that 70-270 will be easiest to do. I plan to write that exam at the end January.

I want to take advantage of the Second Shot voucher.

Then after that it's either Exchange 2003 or 70-291.

I heard that 70-291 is the beast.

Ahhhyes

thats good to hear. congrats!

do you have any tips on the test????!!?

taking that exam on Monday (01-14-08 ) and i just want to be prepared for anything.

thanks

Gundamtdk

Ahhhyes wrote:

thats good to hear. congrats!

do you have any tips on the test????!!?

taking that exam on Monday (01-14-08 ) and i just want to be prepared for anything.

thanks

Some of the answers in the multiple choice question are obviously wrong but there are a few questions that had me scratching my head.

The a few simulation questions I couldn't figure out what they wanted me to do. For example there was one question that wanted me to ensure the user can log onto the account but the user account looked fine in AD --- unless it was a trick question.

newbiext

Gundamtdk wrote:

Daniel333 wrote:

w007!

Glad to hear it, 70-270 next? Isn't that backward?

I suspect that 70-270 will be easiest to do. I plan to write that exam at the end January.

I want to take advantage of the Second Shot voucher.

Then after that it's either Exchange 2003 or 70-291.

I heard that 70-291 is the beast.

If you wabnt to really take advantage of the second shot, i would recommend doing 70-291/293.

My $0.02

dynamik

I did 290 first as well. I was pretty familiar with XP and wanted to try something I wasn't as familiar with. There's numerous things that are identical between the two, such as performance monitoring, so it really doesn't matter which one you do first. It's not like 291 and 293 where you would make things significantly harder on yourself by starting with 293.

Also, as far as the second shot goes, you must take the test and the retest (if you need to) by the end of the month: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/secondshot/faq/default.mspx

That's exactly three weeks from today...

Gundamtdk

newbiext wrote:

If you wabnt to really take advantage of the second shot, i would recommend doing 70-291/293.

My $0.02

I am weighing my options now.

I heard that 70-291 is very difficult more harder than 70-290.

chrisknight

Gundamtdk wrote:

newbiext wrote:

If you wabnt to really take advantage of the second shot, i would recommend doing 70-291/293.

My $0.02

I am weighing my options now.

I heard that 70-291 is very difficult more harder than 70-290.

Ahemm...

What is the "second shot"?

dynamik

chrisknight wrote:

Ahemm... What is the "second shot"?

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/secondshot/default.mspx

It's a free re-take if you fail, but you have to take the exam and retake, if necessary, by January 31st.

aussiemate

Congrats mate..excellent work

Lee H

What was your score, and was you confident you had passed

Lee H

snadam

congrats! just passed this one myself!

qs1pos

Congrats!

rjbarlow

Well done, dude!! Hope to do the same in short time.

CGN_Spec

Congratulations and Good Luck!!!