I will never pass 8

[ecojohnson]

I am struggling. Are tests supposed to be this confusing? I took a practice exam last week. There was a question:

You are a desktop admin, and you are asked to assign a standard application using a windows installer package. You attempt to do so, but an error occurs. You want to deploy the application using windows installer. What should you do?

The correct answer was: Modify the package using an .mst file and redeploy it.

Now, today, I had a similar question. It was:

You are a desktop admin, and you are asked to assign a standard application using a windows installer package. You attempt to do so, but the following error occurs “Cannot prepare package for deployment”. You want to deploy the application using windows installer. What should you do?

So, for the answer, I selected

Modify the package using an .mst file.

However, my answer was wrong. The reason was is that if the error message has something like "Active Directory will not allow the package to be deployed" or "Cannot prepare package for deployment", you are supposed to re-create the package. You are not supposed to use a .mst file.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jtb]

Congrats!! And be very sure you look at the FAQ above as when I took 216, I was making "educated guesses" on roughly 1/2 of the questions...


I started my "computer career" before some of you were born. I have a mcse/ccna/ccda/network+ so one might think I know a little bit about networking. I read the MS, Sybex, Examcram (old), Syngress books cover-to cover. I spent months configuring my little 2-server home network. And I went over the transcenders like they were gold copies of the test...

I passed. And I understand the materials. Barely. As I go forward with my job, I learn more every day than I got from the books...

I want to say I believe I passed by the Grace of God. Not that He gave me special wisdom to cover my lack of studying--I don't believe in that--but I think He gave me the Peace I needed to just do the test and use the knowledge I had acquired.

Study hard, test relaxed. YMMV.

JTB
Senior Microsoft Consultant
MCSE-NT4, MCP+I, MCP-W2K, CCNA, CCDA,
CTE, MCIWD, i-Net+, Network+
(MCSE-W2K in progress)