Passed 971/1000

Passed this afternoon after two months of preparing. The exam wasn't half that bad. Used MS Press, ExamCram, CBT Nuggets, Transcenders, and Sybex (actually used more resources here then the CCNA).

The MS Press book was by far the best reference - the only reference to cover WSUS. Nothing shocking - but know your Sharing and NTFS permissions, RDP, Disaster Recovery, etc, etc.

The practice exams included in the MS Press Kit were great. Only took me around 1:10-15 to finish. Had four SIMS, nothing too hard, just make sure to read and re-read the questions.

I just cracked the book for 70-291 and so far this test looks to be much more interesting than 70-290.

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Comments

royal

Congratulations and excellent score! I see you wasted no time starting on 70-291. That's a good thing, not a bad thing in most cases. I take it you are using MSPress for 70-291 as well. If so, it is a good choice. I agree with you that 70-291 was a lot more interesting than 70-290. 70-291 was actually my favorite exam. Good luck to you on "The Beast" and don't hesitate to ask any questions in the 70-291 forum. Take care!

bmauro

Thanks icroyal - yep you're right - MS Press.

DNS, DHCP, RRAS, VPN - that stuff is LOADS more exciting than counters/trace logs, dsquery/dsmove, etc, etc. I know the info in 290 is important in a windows infrastructure, but network infrastructure is much more interesting to me than managing and maintaining a server.

See ya over in the 291 forum!

ontheway

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I booked for the next monday 19th of february...i'm little bit nervous...........

MS Press, ExamCram2 are the books i'm using, and i think you're right for WSUS.

Everlife

Great job and excellent score!

Smallguy

congrats

webby44

Thats a brilliant score, well done.

sprkymrk

Congrats bmauro!

Ever consider changing your avatar to the dark side, I mean MCP logo?

geekie

Nice job!!

Enjoy 291

plettner

bmauro wrote:

Passed this afternoon after two months of preparing.

Nice work. That's an excellent score - well done.

I'm just going through my 70-290 preparation with the same book you used, the MS Press. I've just gotta read through it and book an exam!