MCSA to MCSA upgrade advice

[pinkpanther56]

Hi all, i've been steadily taking my exams for a while and recently passed 70-292 to upgrade my 2000 MCSA to 2003. I'm looking at the options for upgrading to 2003 MCSE and i'm not quite sure which exams are left.

Has anyone taken this path that can advise?

I've taken

70-271 (MCDST)
70-272 (MCDST)
70-210
70-215
70-218 (MCSA2K)
70-292 (MCSA2k3)

Thanks.

 

[jvmcse]

Pink,

I am currently studing for the 292 also. How hard do you rate this test, and how many questions were on the test?

Thanks in advance,

 

[pinkpanther56]

I found this test hard i passed the 2K 70-218 MCSA exam with 930, i failed 70-292 once and passed with a 750 second time. I had 40 questions and quite a few were on DNS i'd brush up on stub zones and delegations and disaster recovery especially command line switches for NTbackup.

I also nearly ran out of time on the first run which i've never come close to before, there's alot of text in the questions and quite a bit of info to think about so don't linger too long on any question, mark it and review at the end.

 

[jvmcse]

Thanks

 

[pinkpanther56]

Have you taken the exam yet jvmcse?

 

[kmcferrin]

Have you logged into the MCP site and taken a look at the certification path/planner? It should lay it out pretty clearly what the upgrade path is.

I'm just guessing here, but if you've upgraded your MCSA:2000 to MCSA:2003 then MS probably considers you having passed the requisite 2003 exams. You would probably already have credit for the 70-290 and 70-291.

The following four are required for MCSE:

70-290
70-291
70-293
70-294

Assuming you get credit for 290 and 291 from the upgrade as they are part of the 2003 MCSA, you would still need 293 and 294.

Then you need one client OS exam, and your 70-210 should count there. Then you need one design exam, either 70-297 or 70-298. Then you need one elective exam, and it doesn't look like anything that you've taken counts for that.

So in total it looks like you're looking at 293, 294, then either 297 or 298, and then one elective. But I'd double-check on the MCP site and see what they say for sure.

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