Re: 70-282 Exam info

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I'm personally not in favour of a prep course if it alone can make the
difference between pass and fail.

But I do agree that any prep course that doesn't seem to reference the
skills to be examined might not be good value. Who provided the course?

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"EvilNem" <evilnem1979@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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heh I won't take it wrong, I agree wholeheartedly, I've seen way too many
MCSE "6 week course" certified "professionals" who basically know nothing
about anything and still think they're in a simulation environment and
forget they're in production environments and experimenting with a group
policy or exchange connectors etc can be financially crippling. Nothing
is as valuable as real world experience. I've been in IT for over 10 yrs
and haven't bothered with certifications before, now unfortunately they're
becoming a necessity in Oz, of course there's always your way and the MS
way.

But when you send people to do a MS approved course that's designed to
prepare (note I say prepare) you for the exam and use so-called
recommended software that's again supposed to prepare you, they could at
least base it on some of the examinable material. Nowhere in my practice
exams were any questions remotely close to SQL or exchange migrations so
now for all our new junior technicians who don't have as much experience
as myself and the other Technical Director, we have to expose them to
exchange and sql even though chances are they won't be used very much, if
at all.

Just my 2c worth =P


"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <447a90e9$0$7861$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-
01.iinet.net.au>, evilnem1979@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
I sat this exam on the weekend just gone, after having done the MS
course
last November, using the Self Test Software to practice and was doing
fine
(averaging over 90% in ST), the exam was absolutely nothing like the
practice exam I had seen, in fact I think I recognised only 1 question
that
was even remotely close.

Don't take this wrong, but I think it's great that the training/books
are nothing like the actual test - it's about time that MS stopped
allowing cram sessions/classes to make up for real experience.

I stopped counting the MCSE/Certs from MS as an indicator of any
technical merit long ago - and I've seen people with 5 or 6 MS Certs on
their business card that should never be permitted near a network let
alone a computer.

If you don't have experience to guide you then you should not pass the
test.

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