Re: Failed 70-292 and 70-296 today

From: beoweolf (beoweolf_at_pacell.net)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:05:02 GMT

"Charles Lehmann" <lehmann.charles@destination-montagne.ch> wrote in message
news:4219fcb1$0$3413$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch...
> Failed both exams today.
>
> Okay not that much for 70-296... with only 663/700 (I knew that I fell
> short in time for preparation) but I am still wondering what a 350/700
> means for 70-292.
> Above all, I am wondering what kind of tormented guys have written down
> the questions for 70-292. Questions that are formulated like sibylline
> prophecies. Incomplete informations that will do no good in helping
> answering the questions.
> With such unfair questions, braindumps are promised a long long life!
> I have the feeling that I would have scored exactly the same if I would
> have randomly chosen the answers.
> All this makes me wonder what all that is for? And whether I will
> re-certify.
> This leads me to ask one question: do you really think that a
> certification is of any help, as promised by Microsoft? Until now it made
> no difference for me, whether it was for an answer to a RFP or whether it
> was about seeking a new job. In such cases, the certifications were only a
> very (microscopic?) minor differentiator.
> I fell that the only good reasons for passing these certifications are: 1)
> Intellectual satisfaction, 2) Proof that one is still able to learn and
> pass exams and 3) Proving a minimal level of knowledge (and NOT experience
> as claimed by Microsoft).
> If anyone has another good reason, maybe I will give it another try.
>
> Charles Lehmann
>
So good...had to see it again.

Besides finding a decent manual, using Online web resources from TechNet,
Webcasts and Microsoft.com as well as Reading pertinent sections of various
resource Kits should give you all the information you need to properly
prepare for the test...the problem comes in
finding all those resources.

The question was asked and someone hinted that only Losers are among those
who, having passed MCSE or MCSA 2003 certifications, still visit and post in
the forum.

I guess the idea of coming back to help those that have helped you is a
foreign concept? Maybe even the idea that since we all don't know everything
there is to know...it's good to drop in occasionally to access current
trends in test results, pass/fail rates, news of or sharing reviews on new
publications ... is also suspect.

Apparently, the only people in the NG should be MVP's and people seeking
information?

Blind leading the blind or waiting, hoping that your question is one that
will be addressed by an MVP...not much for choices? Better to listen to an
endless carousel of complaints about the unfairness of the test, than to
hear factual replies from others who have taken and passed the test. It much
better to whine and moan....this way you are relieved of any reason to dig
deeper, study harder, get more experience, strive for a way to pass, even if
it is a flawed test...better to constantly harp, ask for either a dumb-down
test or lobby for one that is Hands-on, knowing full well the likely hood of
the latter is unlikely to improve either the pass rate of truly
knowledgeable candidates or be of reasonable cost, but it comes off as a
intelligent request, to those grasping at straws.

For the last year (or longer) we have heard a never ending complaint about
"paper" MCSE and why not make the test harder? Now the tests are
harder...the chorus switched tunes. The song of the day is "The test is too
hard, spoon feed me, please", catchy little ditty...you can dance to it,
it's got an infectious beat; everything included, I give it a 95.

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