71-686 Results

either prometric or MS or both are watching us squirm!

I reckon they will be here this week

Damn you robert! damn you!!

I thought the results had come in.

My speculation is that they've had EST/DST style certs before, but not an EDA...and so they may be double checking theirselves on everything before its final since its a first time cert.

jrobb259

RobertKaucher wrote: »

Any body care to speculate as to why it's taking so long compared to the 685?

Having worked for a testing agency before, my guess would be that since it is a beta exam, they will check to see if there are questions that most, if not all, examinees missed and they will exclude those questions from the scoring. This is of benefit to us. I wouldn't be surprised since the 686 exam sounded harder than the 685 exam. I decided not to take it since I'd like to stick to the engineering/administration side of the IT house. A co-worker took them both the same day and stated that the 686 exam was more difficult and he was SCCM-certified too.

The exam was more SCCM theory, than usage.

jrobb259

Hyper-Me wrote: »

The exam was more SCCM theory, than usage.

I agree but they definitely emphasized R2/SP2 knowledge instead of general SCCM knowledge.

Could be they're not finished tabulating all the 685 scores and haven't gotten to the 686 yet.. that's assuming a FIFO test approach.. idunno

luckily, I just checked prometric before coming on here, an end of day check, and knew that I hadn't gotten a result yet..

Well *supposedly* Liberty Munson (works for MS learning) said the results will be out "1-2 weeks after 70-685", which puts 2 weeks at this wednesday. So hopefully thats an accurate rumor.

Still not in. [Rant]

RobertKaucher

I best we don't see anything until Dec. Maybe if we give up all hope they will post them sooner?

lol I keep thinking like that. I manage to stick with it for a few hours then........... I find myself signing back into prometric again.

COME ON PROMETRIC! POST THE BL**DY RESULTS!!!

jamesp1983

I don't know if this guy is trustworthy, but here is some info:

71-686 | Helmers Blog

Megadeth4168

jimmypizzle83 wrote: »

I don't know if this guy is trustworthy, but here is some info:

71-686 | Helmers Blog

I don't know, it's been 2 weeks and I still show tested. I'm not really worried about it though. I mean seriously, it should be 8 weeks after the beta period is over. That was October 16th right? So, that was only 5 weeks ago. I'm surprised that we got the 685 results so quickly. I really wouldn't be surprised if the 686 results don't come in until early/mid December.

That beings said, I also would not be surprised if results came in later today either.... I'm just saying, don't get your hopes up for anything this week.

MentholMoose

THE RESULTS ARE IN! GO CHECK NOW!

I passed!

aaronchristenson

I failed. I guess I don't know Windows 7 that well.

argh, still says "Tested" for me

mbarra

Tested also

jrobb259

I passed. To be frank, I'm in shock

. Now I really need to take the 680 exam.

MentholMoose

Piers wrote: »

argh, still says "Tested" for me

Wow that sucks, when did you take the exam? I took mine on October 15, almost the last day to take the exam, so I'm surprised that not everyone has their results.

wawrzyn

wow! I have passed too - very surprised as I did not do much preparation. 685 and 680 passed as well. I'm sitting 649 this Saturday, wish me luck

MentholMoose wrote: »

Wow that sucks, when did you take the exam? I took mine on October 15, almost the last day to take the exam, so I'm surprised that not everyone has their results.

Oct 14.. last name starts with 'S', maybe they're going alphabetically

*still says Tested

mbarra

Now listed as Passed

RobertKaucher

I passed as well. I imagine I got close to 700. But a pass is a pass.

Still tested

Congrats to those who passed!!!!!!!

Failed

bah

Megadeth4168

I passed!

Huh... Well, I guess they just need some of my pessimistic attitude to get moving on the results.

*I wonder how long before the results get posted on the MS transcript. Seems like teh 685 were instantly on there..... Unless I didn't really pass....*

Passed!!!

Pass here as well

Another MCITP to add to the list, but the real cake winner will be here in a couple three weeks when i finish the EA.

RobertKaucher

Congrats, guys! And lots of thanks to those who contributed to and created the stickies.