Pre 70-647 Exam nerves

GagHalfrunt

Can anyone help me, I have my 70-647 booked for Thurs and are feeling more than a little nervous about it!

I've already passed 620, 640, 642 & 643 all with 800+ scores (the Vista one by far the easiest in late 900s but I forget!) so this is my final one to get EA.

I've found this MS Press book the most boring I've ever read, watched CBT & TestOut and feel like I understand everything they tell me. Yet I try the MS supplied MeasureUp test and fail with 64%. I don't even understand some of the questions which is odd; not too sure what they are trying to ask me!

Is there anything I should concentrate on - or can anyone make me feel a little better?! I have plenty on the job experience but generally with Win2003 + SQL clusters.

Hyper-Me

Im in the same boat. Im taking it soon but i cant make myself study.

After going over this material in the last 4 tests its just hard to review it yet again.

StuHKR

Hi guys. I took and failed 70-647 today with score of 630 which I was a bit gutted about. I used MS Press and CBT Nuggets and like you GagHalfrunt I was scoring similar scores on the MS supplied MeasureUP tests and thought I should have done better as I thought I understood the material well.

Q's were mainly on RODC, TS, GPO and some DNS and CA stuff. I had 40 q's and had about 1hr 40, which was just over a few mins a question. The test was tricky and you do need to know your stuff but I think my downfall was that I didn't have enough time, not helped by the fact I got comfortable early on and took my time then I had to play catch up and rushed some questions.

Good luck!

GagHalfrunt

Sorry to hear that you failed - I failed my Cisco ICND exam a few years ago so I know how it makes you feel.

Doesn't help my nerves now though! I think the problem is that we've become accustomed to working a certain way for the MCTS exams and the MCITP is so different. No questions seem very direct.

I have less that 2 days to study hard - luckily the company has given me some extra time this week to concerntrate on it. Even if I can make that 5% up it might give me at least a chance!

dfosbenner

I passed 647 a couple weeks ago witha 910. I used the MS Press book, and did the Measure Ups with a score of 815. You should know what your weak areas are from the practice tests, and work on those.

I felt it was a straight forward exam, not too tricky, if you know the material.

danclarke

With those scores in the previous exams, I'm sure you'll be fine.

Good luck with the exam.

GagHalfrunt

Thanks for the extra confidence!

Should I expect many questions about things like Service & Data Isolation and other design type questions?