vlakarmis wrote: » Hi all, I must say this forum is a tremendous help. I have been lurking here for a while mainly due to having stumbled across the pains of those wanting to enter the IT industry and acquire certain certifications for their career. I want to thank all those who posted their exam notes and those who both failed and passed and told us of their experience. I failed the first attempt three weeks ago, with a score of 586. Funnily enough I did good on deployment and most other areas that are so-called 'hard' but didnt score a single questions right on Backup (:0) and Network and Network Configuration section as well as managing applications i scored badly on too. I knew what I did wrong. Poor time management. I used the MCTS Self paced training kit from Microsoft and to be honest, although I agree with those that said it takes ten pages to explain something that other authors explain in two, the Microsoft book goes well in depth and the chapters I Spent studying from that book before moving on to CBT Nuggets 70-680 were the ones I did well in. But obviously that is not the only reason. I suddenly was three days away from my exam and still had 6 chapters to go through so I did not spend nearly half as much time on those chapters as the first ones such as Deployment, Migration, USMT etc and for that I failed. I was disappointed but I had a second shot voucher used to book the first attempt and thus felt that I needed to really sharpen up. Booked the exam again for two weeks later and just spent everyday studyiing and labbing on the areas I did bad in, also refreshing my memory from time to time on the sections I also did well in. Second time I passed with a score of 805, but I must say I was sweating like crazy and worried. Needless to say I was chuffed to see the congratulations screen at the end. I already have an interview tomorrow for a Entry Level It Support role and hope that this will be my first IT job and the start of my IT career. once again thank you all.
