Well I failed this one yesterday, pretty bad too. This is my first failed attempt ever, so my pride is definitely hurt. I am going to have to revisit the material in a way where I can understand what the exam is trying to ask me, no matter how convoluted it may seem. My experience was pretty much the same as most others. You MUST be familiar with the objectives well enough to give the "Microsoft-out-of-the-box" solution to the question.
One a side note, I wil NEVER go to that exam center again. I find this small building, the door was locked and the lights looked off. My first thought was 'crap, they're closed?'. Then some tall skinny kid (like 18 or so) with a huge fro unlocks the door. I walk in, and there is a 10'x10' room with a crate, and a laptop in the dark. I am assuming at this point this is the front office. I sign some stuff and ask him where the lockers are. "Uhh, we dont have any lockers". Fair enough, he escorts me 5 feet to the 'test room'. The test room was 4 pcs in a partial wall cubicle in a room that was about 8'x8'. I looked around and noticed there was no restroom (which sucked because I REALLY needed one). The cubes must have been acquired by a 'Little people furniture store' because I couldnt get my legs under the damn desk comfortably (I'm 6' 3") People were coming in and out of the building being extremely loud. Loud enough that if there was a door, I would have shut it. At one point, he interrupted my test to tell me he had to step outside for a few minutes, and didnt come back for like 45 or so. This is my 4th test center in 3 years (all the good ones close down), and by far this one was THE WORST. The only positive was they had relatively new Dell PC's and widescreen LCD monitors. No lockups, and I got my results quite quickly. If I passed, id be saying the same thing about this place. This was the only center in the area that had a Friday opening, and now I know why
Trying to give a positive spin to this, I know how it feels to fail, and that's out of the way now. Time to lick my wounds over the 3 day weekend, and revisit this thing in a week or two...
