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Old 04-Apr-2008, 12:22 PM
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This exam is a beast. Should be renamed simply DNS as that is what most of the questions were about.

Back to the books. Damn this has really got me down

 
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Old 04-Apr-2008, 12:35 PM
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This exam is a beast. Should be renamed simply DNS as that is what most of the questions were about.

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I think they actually do call this exam the beast. I've heard like you've found out that it's very DNS focused. I didn't think there was that much to DNS until I started doing this exam.

Anyways I'm sure you will crack it next time around.

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Cheers for that.

I would say that 70% of my exam was DNS, the rest was made up of WSUS (2 - 3 questions), RRAS (2 questions) DHCP (about 4 questions) and IP addressing (again about 2-3 questions)

I only had one simulation type question but loads of more then one answer questions

 
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Old 04-Apr-2008, 12:57 PM
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Sorry about the exam bodie, it is very tough. Your best bet is to get as much hands on experience of DNS servers as you can really.

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Cheers for that.

I would say that 70% of my exam was DNS, the rest was made up of WSUS (2 - 3 questions), RRAS (2 questions) DHCP (about 4 questions) and IP addressing (again about 2-3 questions)

I only had one simulation type question but loads of more then one answer questions
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It sounds like you got a difficult exam as I personally like the sims as even if I don't know how to do something then in a sim I can usually find my way around.

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It sounds like you got a difficult exam as I personally like the sims as even if I don't know how to do something then in a sim I can usually find my way around.
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You are definately NOT wrong there.

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70-293 - Originally Mid Jan 2008 (Didn't take) Done Early April. PASSED
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EDIT : Now Studying Exchange 70-284. Deadline Aug 2008 instead of 297 (Time ran out, now deadline for 70-284 is September 2008.)
 
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It is a difficult exam mate, best of luck next time

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but loads of more then one answer questions
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I always wondered... how are those questions graded? do you get partial credit?

Sorry if my question is off topic...

 
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I always wondered... how are those questions graded? do you get partial credit?

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Supposedly, there is no partial credit. However, Microsoft will neither confirm nor deny that.

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Hi

I think I had 3 or 4 simulation questions and some drag and drop.

Sorry you did not pass, what was your score. I just passed this by the skin of my teeth.

My score was 700

 
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Doesn’t matter, a pass is a pass and fail is a fail.

Time to pick yourself up and get back to studying, if DNS is your weak point then start there.

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The Sybex 70-291 book came today so I've started to go through that. At the moment I prefer it to the MSPress book but I can see that I really need both books.

Taking the exam and failing is not necessarily a bad thing. It just proves that more study time is need and it does point out the areas that you need to go over again. I will be doing alot more messing about on my VM setup this time as well.

 
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