70-210 - I passed! Woo hoo!

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I passed! Woo hoo!

ATLDawg

2003-06-27, 1:12 am

I still have no clue how I passed that exam. I do want to give xxxxxx.com credit b/c some of the questions on the exam were exactly what their sample questions asked. I'm also really glad that I went back and reviewed everything because I changed 3 answers b/c I misread the questions before!

Question for all higher-up geeks: would you take the Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 exam track? I'm thinking about going for 2003 since I have hardly used either one and I already have a beta copy of 2003 here at home. People told me that the Windows XP Pro exam was way harder than the Windows 2000 Pro exam. That has to be some major BS. The 2000 Pro exam couldn't be much harder!

Well thanks for any info I can get.

thecomeons

2003-06-27, 7:12 am

the difficulty of the exam probably relates to your experience of the o/s.

i had thought, during my studies for a+ and network+, that the practise questions for 210 that i saw were going to be impossible to answer.

but, now that i have got those comptia exams out of the way, and have come across some of the objectives with my studies for those exams, used win2k a little more in the meantime and studied some material for 210, that i am able to score approx 50% in some of the practise exams already. i wouldn't consider mayself as having studied terribly hard for it either, and have done no lab work.

210 looks to me, to be a very do-able exam in a month, if i had the time available.

if you think the 210 is hard, how do you think you will manage with the mcse exams further down the line?

enforcer

2003-06-27, 11:28 am

quote:
Originally posted by ATLDawg
I passed! Woo hoo!

what accreditation is woo hoo?

ATLDawg

2003-06-27, 2:50 pm

to thecomeons:

I actually did have a couple of years of experience "using" Windows 2000/XP. I had 2000 on my desktop at home for a few months before XP came out. I then got XP Pro (sweet deal where I got a scanner, 256mb of memory, and other stuff for an extra $50) the month it came out. The thing is when you use an OS at home, you rarely use a lot of the special features. I had no idea how to do an unattended install before I read the MS Press book. Wed. night I put Setup Manager and Sysdiff on my computer like the book said and I actually created an answer file for an unattended install. I really REALLY wish I had known about this before! I hated trying to install Windows and do something else in the house b/c I'd have to check on it every now and then.

I was worried about the future DURING the exam. I was worried that if I couldn't pass this thing that I would never pass the other stuff in less than 20 tries. I am taking classes on Win2k pro, Win2k server, Win2k network infrastructure, and Active Directory at a Tech school. I'm thinking the Server exam might be a little "easier" because I know what Microsoft's exams are like now. We'll see I suppose!

aawmorris

2003-06-27, 5:46 pm

Congratulations, from the AUG, down the SAV river!

aawmorris

2003-06-27, 5:47 pm

Good luck with job hunt in ATL, if you are not employed already. There are so many IT jobs in ATL, it ain't even funny.

mrfixit

2003-06-27, 11:14 pm

quote:
Originally posted by enforcer
what accreditation is woo hoo?

That's the one just below Yahoo.

(Something to do with a search engine, I think.

)

Congrats on the pass! Onward and upward!

mrfixit

2003-06-27, 11:21 pm

quote:
Originally posted by ATLDawg
Question for all higher-up geeks: would you take the Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 exam track? I'm thinking about going for 2003 since I have hardly used either one and I already have a beta copy of 2003 here at home.

You would be better off staying with the 2000 track, as most companies are either just implementing it, or have done so recently. The '03 Server will probably take sometime before it becomes the standard. (Heck, I know some companies still using NT 4.0 Server!) Besides, M$ is notorious for pushing out a new OS within months of their previous release. Just a big money racket!

aawmorris

2003-06-28, 8:02 am

Mr fixit is right. I currently have a server running NT at work, just because of the COBOL application that is running on it, that won't handle 2000. The other 9 servers that I maintain were just recently migrated to 2000 about 6 months ago. And yes, Microshit is notorious for pushing out new OS's more often than I bathe. However, these new OS's are often full of bugs that aren't detected until someone hacks into your web server or business critical apps and hoses everything up.

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