Passed 70-647

HeroPsycho

Passed 70-647, so that wraps MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. The exam is pretty much what everyone has described here, so I don't see any reason to go into any other details.

Prep material:

Amazon.com: The Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 70-647 Prep Kit: Independent and Complete Self-Paced Solutions: Anthony Piltzecker: Books

Read about 1/3 of it and just stopped. I knew this stuff from hands on experience.

Used Transcenders as well, although those honestly weren't as representative as they usually are of what the exam is like.

Next up? *shrug* Dunno yet. Tempted to leverage this 85% off thing for elearning to learn SCOM, SQL2008, or something like that, but I really should be focusing more on storage and VMware. I'm also still learning about PowerShell and what not, too. I'll figure it out soon...

dynamik

Hey, about time! You're getting one sexy cert list

HeroPsycho

dynamik wrote: »

Hey, about time! You're getting one sexy cert list

I put a higher priority on my resume.

elaverick1981

Congrats. Hero did your copy of Real MCITP have errors in it? The one I had had editorial notes and missing paragraphs throughout.

bertieb

Congrats HP

HeroPsycho

elaverick1981 wrote: »

Congrats. Hero did your copy of Real MCITP have errors in it? The one I had had editorial notes and missing paragraphs throughout.

Yeah, it did. Pretty crappy book. There was one paragraph I read that literally you couldn't even make sense out of it no matter how hard you tried. That was the point I just thought, "Screw this, I know this stuff!"

Stopped, did the Transcenders, and took the exam.

elaverick1981

Sounds pretty similar to my experience with it. I ended up sending my copy back to Amazon and got the MS Press book instead

HeroPsycho

elaverick1981 wrote: »

Sounds pretty similar to my experience with it. I ended up sending my copy back to Amazon and got the MS Press book instead

*shrug* I'd have done that, but I ordered this book months ago, and didn't get around to prepping for the exam as soon as I wanted to.

Plus, in my experience, a book can only go so far in helping you prep anyway. I proved already by passing that for me, even reading any book for this exam was a waste of time, even a good quality book.

Anyway, what's funny for me is usually when I finish a major multi-exam cert like MCSE or MCITP, I feel like I really accomplished something, and I know my stuff. This time though, I just feel relieved that I don't have to prep for any core MCSE/MCITP type exams for at least several years, with maybe the exception of Win7, which the exam for that likely won't be available until next year anyway. And if that exam is like the Vista exam, I'll breeze through that anyway.

Time to do something else!

undomiel

Sounds rather like how I felt, just kind of ho-hum. Congratulations on your pass, take a break so that I can catch up to your awesomeness since dynamik is untouchable these days. I need to get cracking on my PS and Exchange studies again, I've been slacking.

Claymoore

Congrats!

I felt the same way - no real sense of accomplishment, no celebrating, just glad to be done with OS exams for a while. Hopefully I'll feel better when I finish the EMA since I am putting more effort into it than I did the EA.