Re: Overlap between 290 and 270

catwalker63 wrote:

> Actually, disk management,

Completely different approach on both exams. 70-290 deals with mirrored
drives and RAID-5 for example which you can't even install on XP.

>TCP/IP configuration,

Same on both, I guess.

> installation methods,

Night and day. RIPrep and RIS servers never appear on 70-290.

> group policy, permissions, user rights,

70-270 had very little on GPOs as I can recall.

> microsoft management console,

Hardly mentioned at all in the 70-270.

> domain vs. workgroup,

Wha? Never came up.

> all of these things and more can come up on both
> exams. Accepted wisdom says to study for both exams together and
take
> professional first, then server. I did it the other way around and
did
> fine though.
>
> --
> Catwalker

Prepping for both at the same time can't hurt, but I definitely
wouldn't study for one and think it pretty enabled me to pass the
other. The two exams are completely different for the most part and
require studying as such.

.

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