Cashed in my free 2nd shot... and passed this nasty little exam with 700.
Just enough...
This exam is designed to sort out the men from the boys as I found out first
time, far too casually even though I'd spent quite a bit of time on the
books.
If you're going to pass this, you need to know the product very well, get
almost all the answers correct and read every question twice. Use the
"Upgrading your certification for MS Windows Server 2003 (70-292 & 70-296)"
by Dan Holme and Orin Thomas. Technet, and every whitepaper relevant you can
read. Then use MS Virtual PC and practice as much as possible. Get test
questions, and if you don't know the answers, work them out using your VPC
setup. Also get very comfy with NSLookup, all the support tools and reskit
tools. Get familiar with the ADSI object model if you got the time, as a
couple of scripting questions popped in with regards to WSH and user
creations.
My exam was very heavy on DNS 12 questions and security 8 questions. The
rest was GPO, server maintenance, terminal services, DR, shadow copies
etc..
The exam crashed twice, I was moved from on PC to another and while all that
was happening, the time was ticking and I wasn't doing the test... very poor
performance MS, the exams are too expensive to fuck up on us. What I'm
trying to say is the exam crashed 10 minutes into the test, and when I
resumed on another PC, I'd lost 8 minutes. That's shit.
Hope you find my remarks useful, if not why'd you read it down to here?
Jono .AKA Space Kadet