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70-294 – Passed!

Friday, January 15th, 2010

1 more exam under my belt. Only 1 more to go to complete my MCSE. Got a score of 930/1000 – which I am very pleased with.

70-297 booked for week after next. Failed this once before (for a number of reasons – forgetting the date of the exam until the actual day being the main one). Going to have a bit of a cram session over the next two weekends. Don’t think there is much in the course that I don’t know, just need to try and get my head around how they mark the exam, and make sure that I complete all of the questions in the allocated time.

Already been having a look at what I need to do to then make my MCSE (as will be) up to Windows Server 2008 standard. Looks like I have to upgrade the course to become a Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist. Think I will have to do exam 70-649 Upgrading you MCSE on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist. From what I can see this gives me most of what I need to become a MCITP: Server Administrator. Link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-649&Locale=en-us

Going off now. I am now confused with the Microsoft upgrade paths and what is best. Might need to find someone to talk to.

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70-293 – Passed!

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Just a quick post – now home from doing the 70-293 Planning and Maintaining a Windows 2003 Network Infrastructure. I got a score of 877. Really pleased with that given that I don’t work with the technologies being questioned very often given the size of our network at work though.

Now moving on to 70-294, and then ultimately the (re)taking of 70-297.

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Microsoft Exam 70-293 – Planning & Maintaining Win2k3

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Just having a short break here from studying, and thought I would write a little post. Currently revising for the Microsoft exam 70-293 which I am taking on Monday (can think of other thigns to be doing on a Friday evening!). Just been going through and doing practice tests and looking things up on the Internet too. Nearly there though – I can now pass the practice tests and we are looking hopeful to pass the exam.

This is now one of the times that I wish that I worked in a larger network than I do. Currently I work with 15 servers and 530 clients, spread over a large site. There are some things though, that have just never been done at work, and now they are the points that I am falling down on. DNS/DHCP etc are fine, as they exist and are managed regularly. IPsec though has almost got me stumped. Also, Network Load Balancing, has never been considered because we just don’t have that much traffic!

Have been practicing and testing each of these little ‘niches’ though. Got my head around the encryption and authentication types and how filter lists, rules, and filter actions all tie in together.

It must be fantastic taking this exam if you have been exposed to all of this in a working environment before! Alas, maybe one day…

Oh, just before anyone comments, I do realise that I am only just taking the 2003 exams. I have been studying the entire course whilst I have been working, and learning as I do. Just taken me a while longer than I planned to actually complete all of the exams. I am looking forward to completing this and looking at the new features of Exchange 2010, Windows 7 (which I am already using) and SharePoint 2010.

After this, only 70-294 Planning and Maintaining Active Directory and 70-297 Designing Active Directory & Network Infrastructure to go!

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