Forgotten voucher expires in two weeks... Update: PASSED

blargoe

I've been so busy with my job that I forgot about that voucher I got last year with the Preplogic bundle special. It expires on 8/15! So I guess I'll be cramming for this test for the next several days. It's the last thing I need for MCSE:Security. I guess there's really no excuse for having put it off last year so I got what was coming to me.



Actually I don't think it will be that bad, a lot of it seems like review of concepts I'm already familiar with in the real world and/or in my MS security studies. I got the Syngress guide and PrepLogic software, I just have to make sure I skim over everything and hit the less familiar stuff more heavily. I hope the retarded misworded questions don't get me!

shednik

Best of luck to you!! I don't foresee you having to much of a problem with the exam with your experience...

JakeSchulte

How hard has MCSE:Security been? I took my Security+ two weeks ago. I scored high because I have a new job in the security field. I think that helps a lot in a lot of there questions. Right now I'm learning the Vista Config Cert, 70-620 then 70-622.

blargoe

I was lucky enough to have my company pay for official MS training for the MCSE:Security. The material covered can get deep, and not to be taken lightly if you are inexperienced with Microsoft server and network concepts. If you're starting out on the MCSE track, take the security stuff last, after you have the Server, AD, and Infrastructure stuff down cold.

blargoe

shednik wrote:

Best of luck to you!! I don't foresee you having to much of a problem with the exam with your experience...

Yeah, probably, I'm trying to avoid the overconfidence though, I know this exam has humbled people in the past that took it lightly.

Thanks for the well wishes

blargoe

Passed this morning with an 880. I figured I probably passed but didn't expect a score anywhere near that high. It was similar to what others have recently posted - questions that I didn't remember seeing covered in the prep materials I had used, with some that had me wondering what it had to so with security. I figured I was close to the passing mark, assuming 1/3 or so of the questions I wasn't sure about were the one that didn't count in the scoring.

With this pass, MCSE:Security is also complete.

astorrs

Congrats on the pass and the multiple certs.

dynamik

Congratulations

Obscure test questions aside, did you enjoy studying for this one? It was the most interesting for me thus far.

What's up next?

snadam

congrats blargoe on BOTH credentials!