gravyjoe wrote: » Data001: Congratulations!! Good luck with slaying the beast. Super99: From my personal experience, the 70-270 is MUCH harder. 1) There's more material that's covered on the 270. 2) I feel that the 290 was more straight forward. The 270 questions seemed a bit tricky at times. Sometimes I had to read the whole question a few times before answering it.