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ladato
Programmer
- Jun 5, 2002
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I passed 70-284 on Friday.
30 questions
100 minutes
700 passing score
It was all radio button and checkbox multiple choice. No drag and drops, simulators, click-areas on a screenshot, etc. Just plain old questions with a few exhibits and the option to check for review or comment.
It was a typical MS exam - questions were long and vague and you had to continually ask yourself what they were trying to actually ask.
Note that because of the low number of questions, each question really really really counts. I passed with a 730, so I just barely made it.
For prep I used Testking to make sure I knew the "Microsoft Way" of answering a question. 150 questions on 186 pages tells you that many of the questions are longer than one page. That's important to your preparation.
My strategy was to read the "question inside the question" - the last 1 or 2 sentences that said what they really wanted to know. Then I went back and read the entire question top to bottom to figure out the information I needed. Finally I looked at the answers to see if they gave me hints as to what they were really asking.
Overall, you need to be clear on networking (there are some subnet questions), protocols (which ones you need for front end servers versus back end, etc), DMZ and firewalls (including ISA), redundancy and high availability (NLB, clusters, multiple message stores, backups, etc), administration (AD groups, GPO, etc) and security (Certificates, encryption, VPN, IPSec, etc).
It's definitely passable, but the low number of questions makes it a nail-biter.
Leon
Leon Adato (adatole@yahoo.com)
Measure what is measurable,
And make measurable what is not so.
- Galileo
30 questions
100 minutes
700 passing score
It was all radio button and checkbox multiple choice. No drag and drops, simulators, click-areas on a screenshot, etc. Just plain old questions with a few exhibits and the option to check for review or comment.
It was a typical MS exam - questions were long and vague and you had to continually ask yourself what they were trying to actually ask.
Note that because of the low number of questions, each question really really really counts. I passed with a 730, so I just barely made it.
For prep I used Testking to make sure I knew the "Microsoft Way" of answering a question. 150 questions on 186 pages tells you that many of the questions are longer than one page. That's important to your preparation.
My strategy was to read the "question inside the question" - the last 1 or 2 sentences that said what they really wanted to know. Then I went back and read the entire question top to bottom to figure out the information I needed. Finally I looked at the answers to see if they gave me hints as to what they were really asking.
Overall, you need to be clear on networking (there are some subnet questions), protocols (which ones you need for front end servers versus back end, etc), DMZ and firewalls (including ISA), redundancy and high availability (NLB, clusters, multiple message stores, backups, etc), administration (AD groups, GPO, etc) and security (Certificates, encryption, VPN, IPSec, etc).
It's definitely passable, but the low number of questions makes it a nail-biter.
Leon
Leon Adato (adatole@yahoo.com)
Measure what is measurable,
And make measurable what is not so.
- Galileo