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Has anyone taken the new MS 70-290 and 291 exams
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| Tekhead79 2005-04-22, 1:41 pm |
| I was wondering if anyone here has taken the new 70-290/291 simulation exams. A lot of my students are asking what to expect on the exam and I keep getting mixed responses from Microsoft on whether I can retake the exam since I've already passed the old one.
Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated. | |
| GeeeWiz 2005-04-24, 3:17 pm |
| Microsoft released the new 'Simulation' versions of exams 70-290 and 70-291 on March 31st, 2005. However, it is up to Prometric and Pearson-Vue as to when these tests will actually start being deployed. Neither exam supplier has actually sent these tests out yet. You will have to check with either Prometric or Pearson-Vue to see when the new exams will actually be used. Word is, that one of the test suppliers will start the new simulated exam deployment in June of 2005. | |
| terpmeister 2005-04-26, 1:26 pm |
| I just took the 70-290 last weekend and had 4 simulation questions on it. It was a pearson/vue testing center out in Beaverton, Oregon.
Anyways, I liked the simulation questions, used some real world experience. The ones I had were on SUS, file shares, backups, and user account setups. The thing to keep in mind is there are multiple was of getting the answer, you just need to do it the Microsoft way to get full credit (apparently you can get partial credit for answers if done differently). If you have actually done any real Windows 2003 administration, they should be a piece of cake. The sample on the Microsoft site was pretty dead on what people with experience in the testing environment.
Hope that helps. | |
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| Actually these are not new exams. Most certification exams are constantly undergoing changes, additions and deletions to the question pool. The only difference here is that a few of the new questions added are simulations, designed to have the exam candidate demonstrate proficiency with the technology being tested. No, you do not have to retake them. I'm not sure Microsoft will let you retake them if you have already passed them, and at $125 per exam why would you want to. If it is the same exam number, consider it the same exam. When Cisco revised their CCNA exam they gave new exam numbers to indicate it is a new exam. |
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