Re: Third time's the charm?
From: nguyenpv (nguyenpv1980_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/24/05
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Date: 24 Mar 2005 09:58:38 -0800
Chris,
It's Pete again. How's it going. Good luck on the 290 man. I passed
it with like 762 or something like that, and my two colleagues also
passed it with 716 and 731, and these guys been in the field for at
least 6 years if not more.As for the 291, A friend of mine just took it
and failed with 6 something. I heard it's tough, lots of DNS, DHCP,
questions I heard. A friend of mine just took it and failed with 6
something. He said he bombed on RRAS, now from what I'm seeing the guy
seems to know his stuff, I mean combining with experience and study
material, I thought he would've passed the test with flying color.
ANyways, two books on the subject. One is from Dr. Shinders and the
other one is MCSE/MCSA from Rory McCaw and Kenneth Lind. You can find
them on Amazon for cheap if you dont mind the used books. I got the
Shinders book for 20 USD from abebook on amazon (pretty good service),
and the other book I forgot but it was like $8 or something. Now the
second book does have some errors in it though, especially the practice
tests at the end of each chapter. So if you plan on using the second
book, make sure you verify anything you deem doesn't sound right.
Hope this help. Good luck man. 291 is in a week or so for me. So cram
time.
Keep in touch,
Peter V Nguyen
Chris M wrote:
> Well, 70-290 episode three is booked for Thursday next (31st).
Hopefully
> this time will be it. I really would like to be a MCSA by June, which
is
> when I plan to start actively looking for a new job. I'm actually
feeling
> confident about it this time. I'm consistently scoring above 80% on
practice
> tests, not on the strength of having seen the questions before, but
on the
> strength of knowing *why* the correct answer is correct. It's feeling
good.
> Free retake after this one if I fsck it up again, so that takes some
> pressure off.
>
> As for 70-291, does anyone think that 291 is harder or easier than
290? The
> reason I ask is that the exam cram book for 291 is almost 200 pages
shorter
> than the one for 290.
>
> I realise that it doesn't necessarily follow that less material =
easier
> exam, but is there really less to learn for 291?
>
> While we're on the subject, I haven't bought a proper text for 291
yet. Any
> recommendations? I've not been impressed with Sybex as far as 290
goes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Chris M.
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