I passed today with 841. For those wanting to sit the 270 exam, here are some “tips”… (By the way, this was my first cert for a few years…)

If, like me, you have a few years experience working with XP, don’t expect to waltz in and pass the exam without studying! You won’t find many, if any, questions relating to real world situations. ICF and ICS gets a fair work out when in the real world I have never seen these XP features used – well, not in a business environment at least. I started my study regime by reading ExamCram2. Not a bad book.

I wouldn’t rely too much on brain dump sites. Why? Well, the exam I took today had very few questions that I saw on the dump sites. To be honest, the brain dump questions seemed too easy. The questions in my exam ranged from a few simple ones, some quite “bizarre” ones but mostly ones you had to think about. And you have to think fast! Unfortunately, quite a few had two seemly correct answers. This would explain why on these dump sites there are many discussions about what the CORRECT answer is…

And I wouldn’t waste too much money buying exam Q&As. Some purport to be the exact exam questions but I had a (free) copy of testking 7.2 and found that you can’t totally depend on 7.2. You’ve been warned! (May be Microsoft has recently added new questions. May be the “dark side” needs time to catch up…) I did spend a lot of time researching the explanations in 7.2 which aided my study.

I did about a month of studying (reading, surfing the web and trying stuff out on my PC) and when I finally finished the exam I thought I would have done better. But I’m happy I passed!

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What??? a microsoft cert that doesnt deal with real world situations??

no way!!! i dont believe it.

cant be...you must be mistaken... those situations you saw in the test do happen...in somebody's world... somewhere... now im not saying that its THIS world mind you...

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The scenarios I found most dubious included those that had businesses who use ICF and ICS. Who would use a firewall that only works one way? And no, MS doesn't state that clearly let alone ask a question about it!

But having said that, the fact that ICF exists at all shows that MS is well on the way to being "All Things To All Users". Yes, you want software and sooner or later MS will no doubt have a product out there for you to buy or may be just built into the next version of windows. Notice how Office 2003 comes with a Contacts Manager? Walk into an Apple store and you'll see Office loaded on most the machines. Even stuff like CRMs MS is getting into... (No doubt ICF v2 may actually become "full strength" and is their any doubt MS will try their hand at an AV program?)

My point? We may all end up accepting "The Microsoft way"... And it starts by making sure you answer the exam questions "The Microsoft Way"!!!!

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yup. what gets me is the ones where the right answer involves something unrealistic like upgrading all workstations to some new hardware, or purchasing a new ISDN line to insure better up time for the networks.

in real life, no one would do that if the first ISDN line was a problem. plus the cost of T-1 is getting so cheap that it is nearly the same price around here.

also we have a unique situation in the area where i live where 20 miles from here, one can get dedicated fiber TO THEIR RESIDENCE for less than cable. We also have one of the largest call centers in the world. it has access to 72 pairs of OC-24 lines. The reason? well plans change. Worldcom is dying because they invested heavily into fiber that didnt materialize. but their problem is that they held onto the lines and wouldnt change the price structure for access.

people are here who owned lines, immediately realized that reduced rate customers are a much better option than no customers. so that is why we have a little hick town in the middle of the nowhere that provides 54 Mbps fiber access through its city services for $25 a month. weird eh??

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I have to agree with Bluesky in part
The major issues here for anyone taking mirosoft exams is the amount of studying you have to do in relation to(obsolete).
never to be used again.
Why when Bill himself and all I.T media state that I.T is moving at a rapid rate
are we still have to study areas that are obsolete or will be in a short time never to be used again. Backward step

why learn old when there's mountains of new

passed 070-292 today

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Agreed with most. In XP, there are features that you normally won't use and features that end-users didn't know it existed.

ICF and ICS, EFS...and stuffs like that.
Even if you're an experience XP user, its best to study or at the very least read-up on the subject matter and ensure that you know the stuffs that you will be subjected to.

Especially the skills being measured:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-270.asp

Good luck.

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ok

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