PLEASE HELP!!! I have been using a cd based learning method to prepare for the exam. I don't know how closely the test questions on it match the questions in the exam. In the practice tests and the post assessment test the question may have several ways to get to something, such as through the control panel, right click, management console, etc. If you do not use the exact method they want you to it marks the question wrong. So its the path that is just as important as the end result. Are any of the questions in the real exam like that? Or can you get to the final result any way you choose? I am hoping to be ready for the exam next month and I need to know how to prepare. Thanks.

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The best way to determine if your material has adequately prepared you is to try other sample questions. There are probably hundreds of free practice exams online or available for download. This site has link to it's sister site Cert21.com. Take the Skilldrill for Windows 2000 at Cramsession.com. Download samples from TechSkills, Transcenders, uCertify. Also subscribe to e-mail question of the day services. I answer 15-20 questions a day from all of the MS exams and I've already gotten my MCSE.

You need more exposure than one vendors material. Make sure you are extremely comfortable perusing the Microsoft site, including the Knowledge Base and Technet. Also get a good search engine Google, Copernic etc. You want to learn not just to pass this exam but how to get your hands on any information it takes to resolve a question or problem.

Oh, last but not least make sure you are actually working on at least one machine that is running Windows 2000. If you don't have it get the Microsoft MOC book for the 120 day version. You just can't simulate an O/S.

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Thanks for your advice Jeff. I am currently doing all of the things you suggest. I have several sources for study, and we have a network at home with W2k Pro on it. However, you didn't answer my question. I really wanted to know if anyone has encountered questions on the actual exam that require you to follow a certain path to perform something such as add user to group, set up new user, group,etc. I realize that I need to know the why as much as how, but I won't have the chance to restart the exam when I miss the actual path on the question like I can with the tests on the cd based learning. I had not seen any questions like that on the practice exam questions, but I am not sure what is included in the interactive type of questions I have read about. I am imagining that the interactive test questions would be similar to the cd based lessons. I appreciate all advice on passing, really I do,,,, but can you tell me about the specific question I have in mind? Thanks!!!!!

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There really aren't any kind of simulations in the 210. It is pretty much multiple choice. You may encounter 'Drop and Place' type of questions where to you use the mouse to move objects to their proper category. There are also some where you have to use your mouse to click on a particular object in say for example 'Comupter Management' to show where to manage volumes. The last type of question that Microsoft uses is the list builder, where you move items into their respective order including sub items. I really don't recall any of these types of questions in 210, mostly just multiple choice.

You can go back and forth through all of your questions in the real exam, I have not heard anyone mention that they are adaptive. That would be where you have to answer each question as it arrives and there is no review.

There are no real simulations where you actually perform a task.

There are actual example interactive questions that you can download from Microsoft that show you how they work.
Find them at this link...

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Thanks very much Jeff. You have answered my question and have taken some of my test anxiety away..... Wish me luck!!

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Best of luck on this one. It sounds from your replies that you are indeed well prepared. Manage the clock and keep a cool head. No cramming the night before, get some rest and eat well. Make sure to observe any routines you do to be at your best. Don't stray from the routine.

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