cbriant wrote: Took 70-294 today and failed with a score of 586. I am absolutly gutted as this is the first MCSE exam I will have to resit. I have passed every one of them first time so far, including 291 and 293 so this is really annoying to fail an exam which is supposed to be easier. I was well prepared for the exam having used Transcender until I could answer every single question correctly. I used Exam Cram, MS Book, Carrer Academy and Readiness Review Suite. What caused me to fail was the ambiguity of the questions. I don't think that the Transcender has enough coverage of all the possible questions you can get asked. Most of the content was on OU structuring and where to apply GPOs or permissions to an OU. There was some very random stuff that I had never come across such as the "gpOptions" permission and a question on a restore of a domain controller where you have to create folders in the sysvol folder???? Some of the questions didn't make any sense at all to me. One thing that confused me is where to apply a bridge between site links as opposed to another DC. Can someone advise me on this? Chris.
cbriant wrote: Well I guess i'll just have to resit this one in a months time. For now i'm going to forget about study for the next few days. Not sure what kind of materials i'll need though, is there anything as good as Trancender that has completely different questions? Not sure how much labs will help me as I have a good understanding of applying GPOs and configuring active directory already. Didn't really have any problems with the SIMs, just struggled with the standard questions.
dynamik wrote: Sorry to hear about the fails (belated I know, cbriant!) I think 294 was the most poorly worded exam I've taken. Keep in mind that they often ask about things in an indirect manner. They may be looking for something completely different than you think they are. For example, they may not be looking for the most optimal OU structure, but rather if you understand other things like inheritance, enforcement (no override), filtering with security groups, etc. They may intentionally give you a less-than-perfect OU structure to see if you can make it work (because, and unfortunately, you may have to do things like that in the real world). Keep you chins up fellas; you'll get past this
cbriant wrote: Most of the content was on OU structuring and where to apply GPOs or permissions to an OU. There was some very random stuff that I had never come across such as the "gpOptions" permission and a question on a restore of a domain controller where you have to create folders in the sysvol folder???? Some of the questions didn't make any sense at all to me.