Hello All,
Last Friday (March 29, 2008) i had scheduled an exam which is one of the
exams included into MCSE 2003 bundle. The exam name is 70-297 Designing a
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure.
I am wondering what out-of-date this exam was. I am really disappointed
about the whole exam.
1. First of all, almost 80% of all questions were related to Windows NT4,
Windows 98, Windows 2000 and the other 20% were ONLY Windows 2003 Server
based.
2. The whole interface of the quiz was the WORST which i have ever seen. The
exam was divided into 6 sections where every one of them had among 6 and 9
questions. The time was dedicated per section where for an example i had 15
minutes for a section with 6 questions and 23 minutes for a section with 9
questions INCLUDING THE TIME TO READ the scenario.
3. Every section had a scenario where the test taker has to read what would
be the given business situation. I was quite surprised when i figured out
that the actual scenario text was counted as a part of the questions included
within the section. That is absolutely foolish. How can you count the
scenario as part of the questions??? Also because there were 6 sections i
figured out that every scenario will be COUNTED AS UNANSWERED QUESTION. That
really made me angry.
4. The scenarios were such a long so i had to spend almost 45% of the time
just to read the scenario and there was no time to finish the questions.
Because the scenario were so large, me as test taker had to switch back and
forth between the questions and the scenario to extract the information which
i needed. I had to spend a minute or so, just to find where the right
information was.
5. On top of that stupidity there were so many grammar and technical errors,
I could not believe this is an official test which contains all this "CUTTING
EDGE" information as part of MCSE Windows 2003 bundle packet.
I would like to share my bad experience with the MCSA / MCSE community
including Microsoft learning department. Please lets make this known to all
of us and Microsoft learning department. If someone can help to bring this
issue to whoever will concern, i will appreciate it very much.
Sincerely
Ivaylo Krumov
ikroumov@gmail.com
MCSA