BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Announces Simulation Questions

jacev1

"Performance-based questions, which test candidates' hands-on skills, will slowly be substituted for some of the questions on exams already available, first with exams 70-290, Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment, and 70-291, Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure."

- Microsoft Learning Group

http://certcities.com/editorial/news/story.asp?EditorialsID=786

confuzz

lol, that would be those questions like the one about permissions I had and you'd have to click and drag a box for the right permissions to another window and drop them into another box? or the one about disabling something and you had to click on the stuff to do it and certain buttons on tabs? I love those questions.... more real-world related....

Ricka182

I think it's great idea. Anything to make it harder for cheaters, the better. Now you really have to know sh*t!!

janmike

"..real world.."
"..harder for cheaters.."
"..Now you really have to know.."

All these were my first thoughts too.

Wonder what effect this will have on available study materials.

Webmaster

confuzz wrote:

lol, that would be those questions like the one about permissions I had and you'd have to click and drag a box for the right permissions to another window and drop them into another box? or the one about disabling something and you had to click on the stuff to do it and certain buttons on tabs? I love those questions.... more real-world related....

No I don't think they are refering to those type of question, they've been introduced a long time ago. It seems these new questions are closer to configuring an actual system, a simulator, not just enabling a settings on a dialog box they already opened for you (which technically speaking was still a multiple choise question, just with a windows element as a background ).

Anyway, I think it's another step in the right direction (= a lab exam).

Wonder what effect this will have on available study materials.

More screenshots I guess I'll have to create more CBTs too.

confuzz

lol, if they had exams more like the labs, I'd assume there'd be more people getting perfect scores and I'd be passing them....

gaiter83

Dunno how it will be with Microsoft, but I took the newer CCNA with Router Sims like 2 years ago when it first came out... You really had to know the Cisco IOS commands for the Simulation questions, however if you knew them, these questions were the easiest of the exam; besides the no-brainers like loopback IP being 127.0.0.1... lol