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Old 15-Apr-2008, 09:04 PM
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TS 70-649, my story so far...
Hi Guys,

Well sat the MCSE 2k3 upgrade exam: 70-649, here's my breakdown (without breaking the NDA)

My exam had 49 questions, broken down into 3 parts.

Score:
70-642: TS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring: 737 (Passed)
70-643: TS: Windows Server 2008 Application Infrastructure, Configuring 760 (Passed)
70-640: TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring 350 (failed)

Overall exam score: 350 - Failed

While I didn't really feel as the first 2 parts were harder than any other MS exam (as I've been using it at both work and in my practice labs) the 70-640 was alot harder for me as I really only skimmed that subject and haven't really played around with 2008 specific improvements/changes, D'oh.

Anyway, that wasn't the worse part... Prometric was Exam booked for 12:00hrs, exam took 14:00hrs - there was a problem with downloading my exam and it took Prometric office approx 2 hours to sort it out. The testing centre was nice and apologetic, but I've never had this problem with Vue.

So my experience with Prometric so far:
1. Can't use my exam voucher & second shot at the same time and
2. Exams don't work properly

Microsoft is fast losing a pro-Microsoft IT Professional here!

-ken

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Old 15-Apr-2008, 09:18 PM
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Wow, sorry to hear that Ken.. i know the upgrade exams are not at all easy. i'm sure you crack it on your next attempt and i hope you have better luck at the testing centre. the last thing you need is hassle and stress, when you are sitting a tough exam

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Unlucky mate, I was wondering how you got on with this exam as I plan to upgrade my MCSE (whenever I finally pass the 70-297!) to Server 2008 as soon as possible. When I looked on the MS site I thought the 70-649 looked like a tough exam.

Hope all goes well next time.

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Bad luck Ken.

Sounds like prometric are crap hopefully it was a one off, I'll be with vue for next one so I don't have to worry about that yet.

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I know you'll knock it dead on your next attempt (provided you give Prometric another chance!).

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Are your exam was supposed to 12 hours long or you were supposed to start at 12PM and you ended up starting at 2PM?

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Originally Posted by wagnerk View Post
Hi Guys,

Well sat the MCSE 2k3 upgrade exam: 70-649, here's my breakdown (without breaking the NDA)

My exam had 49 questions, broken down into 3 parts.

Score:
70-642: TS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring: 737 (Passed)
70-643: TS: Windows Server 2008 Application Infrastructure, Configuring 760 (Passed)
70-640: TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring 350 (failed)

Overall exam score: 350 - Failed

While I didn't really feel as the first 2 parts were harder than any other MS exam (as I've been using it at both work and in my practice labs) the 70-640 was alot harder for me as I really only skimmed that subject and haven't really played around with 2008 specific improvements/changes, D'oh.

Anyway, that wasn't the worse part... Prometric was Exam booked for 12:00hrs, exam took 14:00hrs - there was a problem with downloading my exam and it took Prometric office approx 2 hours to sort it out. The testing centre was nice and apologetic, but I've never had this problem with Vue.

So my experience with Prometric so far:
1. Can't use my exam voucher & second shot at the same time and
2. Exams don't work properly

Microsoft is fast losing a pro-Microsoft IT Professional here!

-ken
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Bad luck Ken.

So, does it actually show you that you would have passed the 642 and 643 then?

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Bad luck Ken.

So, does it actually show you that you would have passed the 642 and 643 then?
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No; it would show that he passed 70-649... which fulfills objectives otherwise covered by the 70-640, 70-642, and 70-643 exams.

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No; it would show that he passed 70-649... which fulfills objectives otherwise covered by the 70-640, 70-642, and 70-643 exams.
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Ah... OK. I just wondered due to Ken showing his scores on the various elements...

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