Tonight...
desertmouse
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... I dine in HELL!
Actually - while I'd rather be watching 300, I shall be sitting the exam at 5:30CST.
/rant on
I know I haven't studied near enough, and I don't do PKI / Clustering on a regular basis... so we'll see how this goes.
I did OK on the 70-291 so I'm hoping to carry some of that momentum. Honestly - I don't think I'll ever have to deal with server clusters, and I have a pretty good handle on security and best practices so we'll see. None of my current clients use Unix for DNS, and if they did well I guess I'd have to figure it out.
Hopefully this isn't impossible - I really didn't find the material all that interesting. I guess it doesn't help that I mostly work with 2008 Servers + 2010 exchange now. This "old" tech stuff isn't as cool IMO (although I do appreciate the foundation and terminology and general concepts that get carried over) so it's hard to study for me.
Anyway...
/rant off
I'll post the results so everyone can point and laugh... lol
EDIT: Study Material: 1/2 Sybex 70-293 book, a few CBT nuggets, and random TechNet articles here and there....
Actually - while I'd rather be watching 300, I shall be sitting the exam at 5:30CST.
/rant on
I know I haven't studied near enough, and I don't do PKI / Clustering on a regular basis... so we'll see how this goes.
I did OK on the 70-291 so I'm hoping to carry some of that momentum. Honestly - I don't think I'll ever have to deal with server clusters, and I have a pretty good handle on security and best practices so we'll see. None of my current clients use Unix for DNS, and if they did well I guess I'd have to figure it out.
Hopefully this isn't impossible - I really didn't find the material all that interesting. I guess it doesn't help that I mostly work with 2008 Servers + 2010 exchange now. This "old" tech stuff isn't as cool IMO (although I do appreciate the foundation and terminology and general concepts that get carried over) so it's hard to study for me.
Anyway...
/rant off
I'll post the results so everyone can point and laugh... lol
EDIT: Study Material: 1/2 Sybex 70-293 book, a few CBT nuggets, and random TechNet articles here and there....
Comments
Good luck man!
So - with that in mind, I'm having a bubbly, playing some games, and letting everyone else know - as you probably already do - that the 293 is not a walk in the park if you don't work with this stuff every day.
That sucks. Play with your "Bubbly" and you will kill it next time.
I've seen a decent number of people mention that they felt 293 was more difficult than 291 (more than likely due to the fact that the material is much less day-to-day than 291).
Keep your chin up; you'll kill it next time. Give Transcender a shot if you haven't already.
Get that PKI on a leash and I reckon you'll have it. You'll also be much better off for it in the field as well.
Good luck next time.
Enjoy.
AND MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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That's a real stinker. You should try doing some labs setting up clustering and the like. If you can set up just three VMs you can create a cluster with iSCSI storage. I wrote a post about how to do it with SQL Server in the SQL Server forum, though I have not edited it. Also, doing some stuff with NLB would help.
Network security is all about using PKI, SCAT, and encryption types, if I recall. You do a lot of labs for those as well. Use the same VMs as in the other labs. Just imagine you are setting up a sql server cluster to hold video from drones....
http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/49311-insurgents-hack-us-drones-26-00-program-does.html
Just set up your CA and use the certificates for the IPSec. Get the hands on and you'll crush it next time!