Passed 70-271 today ... MCDST certified

Well I finally finished this thing off, and let me say THANK GOD! I've been eager to put it behind me and now I can finally start tackling my MCSE.

About the test, well it wasn't too bad .. A lot of questions on Installations from RIS, Power Management, Access to network resources, and troubleshooting network connectivity (WINS, DNS, DHCP), etc.

Scored an 811 and I used Exam Cram 2 book which seemed to cover most of the topics just fine. The author (Dan Balter) was much better than the author of the Exam Cram 2 for 70-272 which I thought was inadequite.

Anyways, going to take a week break before starting to study again. Thanks everyone for their help, I spent a lot of my time going over the 270 technotes and scored decent on the practice test here for that one.

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TranscenderMichael

Congrats!

Ricka182

congrats! Did you make the Charter club(first 5000)? I have got to finish mine as well. I'm just dying to find time for the other half of MCDST. I put my MCSA first, and don't have time for that either. Someday.....

TeKniques

Ricka182 wrote:

congrats! Did you make the Charter club(first 5000)? I have got to finish mine as well. I'm just dying to find time for the other half of MCDST. I put my MCSA first, and don't have time for that either. Someday.....

I'm not sure about the 5000 thing, I guess I will find out in about 5 days when M$ gets the results from Prometric. If I do, I will let you know.

Hopefully you can find time to finish it, you might as well since you got the first half done

Thanks for the grats guys

Webmaster

Congrats with the new cert!

NPA24

Congrats! Your probably an early achiever!

TeKniques

Ricka182 wrote:

congrats! Did you make the Charter club(first 5000)? I have got to finish mine as well. I'm just dying to find time for the other half of MCDST. I put my MCSA first, and don't have time for that either. Someday.....

Hi Ricka182, I just wanted to tell you that I received my certificate yesterday in the mail and I did in fact make the Charter club. I don't know what special thing this does for me, but the certificate was cool none the less.

Just thought I would let you know

Ricka182

TeKniques wrote:

Ricka182 wrote:

congrats! Did you make the Charter club(first 5000)? I have got to finish mine as well. I'm just dying to find time for the other half of MCDST. I put my MCSA first, and don't have time for that either. Someday.....

Hi Ricka182, I just wanted to tell you that I received my certificate yesterday in the mail and I did in fact make the Charter club. I don't know what special thing this does for me, but the certificate was cool none the less.

Just thought I would let you know

Cool. I'll get my MCDST soon enough, maybe I'll make the charter club as well....congrats again!

D-boy

TeKniques wrote:

Well I finally finished this thing off

Congrats!

2lazybutsmart

Congrats

quest_to_learn

Congrats! Good luck for the next cert

allylaurente

Well Done..

Hope i can passed that too. Im starting to read books on 70-271 next week.

shadown7

Good Job!!!

ynaji

Greetings:

Congratulation. I am so happy for you. Keep the good work.

I am new in the fields and I would like to ask about the materials that you used during the preparation. this is my first preparation to a certification. I would like to know How to start

Please provide feedback

Thank you

Sincerely,

NTA

TeKniques

Thank you all for the kind words. I hope that I can return them when you all pass as well

ynaji wrote:

I am new in the fields and I would like to ask about the materials that you used during the preparation. this is my first preparation to a certification. I would like to know How to start

For the MCDST track I used the Exam Cram 2 books and studied the 70-270 technotes on this site that cooresponded to the Microsoft objectives for the two exams. There actually is a lot of rollover, just not as much administration stuff that is covered in the 270 exam. I think the MS books are overkill, they are literally 3 times the size of the Exam Cram books. I also use Win XP everyday and also support end users here at work a lot too.

As for practice tests. I used the crappy Measure Up ones that came with the exam cram books. If you want good practice tests I would recommend Transcender, it has the most realistic look and feel as to what the actual exam will look like. I also took the 70-270 practice test here which was very good.

Good luck and welcome!