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Do people ever disagree with an answer on the exam?
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| Dennis M. 2004-01-15, 11:24 pm |
| .... and what do you do when that happens?
I am studying for my first certification (70-228) and I really have no idea
what to expect (accept that I will probably put a $500 dent in my bank
account).
What kills me is that I am reading the Self-Paced Training Kit on SQL Server
2000 Administration from Microsoft Press and some of the example questions
are unclear and others I just can't agree with the answers.
For example
Q. 70-228.03.04.004 - question states that database recovery model is SIMPLE
and DBA added differential backups to occur every hour (in addition to
existing configuration of full backups once a day), and correct answer
states "you have minimized the time it would take to recover the database to
a point of failure". With SIMPLE model you cannot recover to the point of
failure, only to the point of the last database backup (full or
differential).
Q. 70-228.03.02.003 - question asks which method provides THE BEST (actual
text does not have this capitalized) performance benefits when reading data.
Then it asks to choose all that apply. Unless there are at least 2 methods
which create identical performance gains (which are hard to quantify as it
is), how can you specify more than one answer when one will have to be
better than the other? Correct answers (2 of them) where disk mirroring and
formatting NTFS volume with 64KB extents. I agree the latter one will
increase performance, but I don't think it would be nearly as much as disk
mirroring where we actually have 2 disks giving us data almost in parallel.
I only picked mirroring.
Is it just me, or are these questions ambiguous? And if they are, are there
questions like these on real exams? And if there are, what do you do? Suck
it in and hope you will answer the rest of the questions enough to pass, or
do you have a say?
-- Dennis
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| =?Utf-8?B?QmVuIEd1dGVyc29uIFtNU0ZUXQ==?= 2004-01-21, 1:24 pm |
| Regarding your concern about possibly faulty items, please see this information about challenging an exam item: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/m...emchallenge.asp
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Ben Guterson [MSFT]
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