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Passed 70-216 and 70-217 today (12/27/02)...
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| Parallax_Sky 2002-12-27, 4:29 pm |
| I had 57 questions in 150 minutes. I took all but 20 seconds of the time but that is because of the way I take the tests. I am very methodical and I like to go over everything in a second passthrough.
The questions weren't as verbose as the 20-217 exam nor as tricky (reading comprehension was not the test here). Everyone's exam is different (and random) but I did get some statistics on my exam during my comment period.
I had 15/57 DNS questions. ~13/57 DHCP questions. ~10/57 WINS questions.
My exam had very few IPsec (~2), RRAS (~3), and CA (~3) questions. There were a few subnetting questions for me (~3) and I was very happy to have them. I love popping up that calculator!
I knew my personal weakness was WINS and for every exam I take, it starts with my weakness. But if I can get through that, I know I will do fine.
What I used to study was the MSPress 70-216 book and the Resource Kit. I don't like taking practice tests because I think it dulls me to the real thing (as in dulls me to the sharpness and newness of the real thing). I also took the 2153 class about a year ago so I had that MOC (but did not use it recently) and of course I took Net Essentials for my MCSE NT4 4 years ago, the CNE, and the Network Plus (all 3.5-4 years ago).
I do want to thank this board because here is what happened: I decided in early December that I needed to finally update my MCSE 2000. I took the 70-215 exam THIS monday (12/23/02) and I never checked online for it. I have been overlap studing for all the exams. When I finished the 70-215 exam, I signed up for 70-216 and 70-217 for today not knowing that the 70-216 was supposed to be so hard.
Getting on this board (and others) helped give me that edge and point me in the right direction. And to take the exam seriously. So seriously that I wanted to cancel the 70-217 exam and just take one today. But unfortunately the site needed 2 business days notice and I couldn't give it. I was celebrating something called Christmas in between. It worked out well though. I passed both.
I will post thoughts on 70-217 on the 70-217 board. By the way, I take 70-219 on Monday and I will have my MCSE 2000. (Elective hold over and I took 70-210 in March).  | |
| jeff_j_black 2002-12-27, 5:01 pm |
| Congrats!!! That makes for a long test seesion (216 and 217) | |
| Parallax_Sky 2002-12-27, 5:09 pm |
| I have taken three exams in a day twice before. Once the day I got my CNE and once the day I got me MCSE NT 4.0. For me, when you are in the zone, you are in the zone... but you are too tired to get elated when you pass. Plus I don't like studying for an exam per se... I like to prepare for it all... and then study for the exams. The exams are conducive to one another... like the DNS overlap (in slightly different ways) today. | |
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| luisjo 2002-12-28, 11:47 pm |
| Man, your my hero, really how do you take 2 mcse exams in one day, im reading 2 books for 1 exam imagine 500 pages per book, thats 1000 pages and i read about 70 to 100 pages a day, well by night, i take about 10 or 15 days to prepare for an exam and i loss some of them, and you take 2.
I repeat your my hero.
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| Parallax_Sky 2002-12-29, 12:23 am |
| No, I don't mean to make it seem like I "crammed" for the exam. I have been an MCSE NT 4 for 4 years and using Windows 2000 Server for 2.5 (I run Windows 2000 Advanced Server on my primary machine). As an MCSE NT 4, I originally thought I would have to upgrade by last December 31st, then, this February, then no deadline.
I have been preparing for this overall upgrade for 18 months at least. I also took the classes (5 days each... but I took a night program over a few weeks) in December and January.
I just never picked up any other book but the MOC from the class until a few days ago. But I have alternately been using Win2K at work, at home (with my 5 computer home network), etc.
I have a love-hate relationship with the exams themselves. I love them because they show what you know but I hate them because they are kind of stressful to sit there in front of you waiting to be completed in a chain (for me at least). So I like to knock them off in short order.
I study for a LONG time, I like to get a general feeling for other people's view of the exams, I like other sources than the MOC (because it DOES NOT correspond directly with most exams), but I don't like taking practice tests, and I especially don't want to go near cheat sheets and brain dumps.
I don't think practice exams are bad. I think they are very good. I just think that my attention span for exams is short. If I used it up on practice exams, I might get discouraged on the real thing. Not from scores... but from the sitting there and going through it all and not having it behind you. That is why I take all my exams at once... to get it over with. I took the 6 CNE exams in 6 days Wed-Mon (1 one day, 3 another, 2 the last).
Everybody gets to the same destination. I am just wierd about it I think. Everyone here is taking the exams to get work, get promoted, or maybe challenge themselves. But most of all, we all love computers and have a talent for it. For me, I didn't want to get into an exam cycle (1 month -> exam, etc.) because maybe it gives me an excuse to play some more before having to justify it. Sort of like, I can still run some more tests. So my cycle might be (6 months -> 6 exams).
There are some big minuses to this method though. My books that I buy in the beginning (if I buy them then) get out of date, the exams can change on me, and I get out of contact with exam communities (because they move or die on me)... but I am happy I found this one. | |
| jadgate 2003-01-05, 3:24 pm |
| Congrats.
Good thing you didn't schedule 216 and 219 back to back (5 hours allocated for 219). You wouldn't have been able to see straight at the end of 219.
Jim | |
| curtlaffi 2003-01-05, 11:35 pm |
| Congratulations in your success
keep going
By the way, Did any one try examsoexxy?
I would like to buy their exam paper for study due to they are selling only usd$10 during their promotion period.
Would like hear any one advice before I buy?
Thanks.
George C Laffin
(working on mcse) | |
| luisjo 2003-01-06, 9:42 am |
| buy books, not cheat sheets or you like to be call paper mcse.
Good luck |
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