{HOT}Free Microsoft Win2k Pro & Server Certification Exams

[IgoByte]

NM

 

[mobogasm]

passed the 76-215 earlier today. Was not very difficult at all. Barely harder than the pro exam. Took me about 80 minutes or so. I'm not sure that I could even read all the questions/answers in 45 minutes.....

 

[IgoByte]

Maybe I just thought too much...

It took me nearly three hours to get done. Granted, I took it very easy and the room was awfully warm, so I kept loosing concentration and even had to step out, but still...

What's passing on these tests anyway?

 

[jimmyhaha]

for those who pass the 215, do u have hand on/work experience with win2k server b4 ?

It seems the sever part is much harder than the pro part.

yeah, I know there is dump, but memorizing the answer w/o understanding the concept is no good..

just my 2 cents.

 

[IgoByte]

Originally posted by: jimmyhaha
for those who pass the 215, do u have hand on/work experience with win2k server b4 ?

It seems the sever part is much harder than the pro part.

yeah, I know there is dump, but memorizing the answer w/o understanding the concept is no good..

just my 2 cents.

I've had plenty of experience with W2KS and I didn't find the test to be easy. I think some of the stuff on it was fairly outdated and most things apply to large-business environments, whereas I've only worked with small business and never even encountered some of the stuff they mentioned. I don't know...again, I might have just thought about it too much. I didn't even know the format of these tests before last Friday, when I took the 710, so that's probably also a factor in me having been so cautious.

I don't believe in memorizing stuff either...

 

[EDiT]

Originally posted by: IgoByte

Originally posted by: jimmyhaha
for those who pass the 215, do u have hand on/work experience with win2k server b4 ?

It seems the sever part is much harder than the pro part.

yeah, I know there is dump, but memorizing the answer w/o understanding the concept is no good..

just my 2 cents.

I've had plenty of experience with W2KS and I didn't find the test to be easy. I think some of the stuff on it was fairly outdated and most things apply to large-business environments, whereas I've only worked with small business and never even encountered some of the stuff they mentioned. I don't know...again, I might have just thought about it too much. I didn't even know the format of these tests before last Friday, when I took the 710, so that's probably also a factor in me having been so cautious.

I don't believe in memorizing stuff either...

Well, I have my NT4 MCSE+I, along witha lot of other certs. I have been using 2000 since Beta 1, but now mainly do networking & security in my job instead of servers. I did not study going in to these, and found the Pro to be pretty easy, but the Server exam was a bit tougher. The biggest issue is that it focused heavily on several specific areas, so if you did not know one, you could really be hurting even if you know 2k well. Luckily, I knew most of the topics very well, and the rest enough to get by.

As for time, it took me ~1.5 hours, and I can't imagine doing it much faster. I pretty much read each question and chose my answers with little hesitation. Most questions took ~45 seconds to read, with a little time to chose an answer at the end. Then a little time to review at the end. I don't read very fast, but to do it in much less time than an hour I think you would need to have seen all of the questions ahead of time and just have to skim for the correct answer.

 

[bonkers325]

nice to hear u all like my hot deal

 

[EDiT]

Originally posted by: bonkers325
nice to hear u all like my hot deal

Definately. I wasn't going to upgrade my MCSE to 2000 since I'm still bitter they discontinued the MCSE+I, but now I'm halfway there. Just need the last three for free. Any codes for them?

 

[VSOP]

Well I started in HS, I was a CNA, Had two netware servers running on the school network, helped out as an admin, was given microsoft developer package my junior year of HS. Senior year became co-chair of the county ardware recycling program. Took college level class for Network operations.

In college I became Chief engineer of schools radio station, in Florida. So was doing alot of audio engineering and streaming audio stuff. And also had a job as a network Level III tech for the schools IT department. (This was while I was going to school for Comp Sci. I have since changed majors. Programming for a Job is boring)

So I guess I have been working with networks for over 8 years and I'm only 23. And the thing that got me started was while I was still living in NY, my Soph year of HS I was asked to teach a Basic programming class at the community college, and the labs network sucked so after fixing that I was hooked.

The MS tests are rather easy if you have played around with the Software on alot of diffrent setups..
Most peoples problems are that they have not used enough of the features or delt with the problems that MS wants you to know about

 

[genius99]

I passed the 76-210, but failed the 76-215

A lot of you are saying that the 76-215 is not much harder than the 76-210. But IMHO I think it's a lot more difficult!

 

[WiseOne]

passed 215 this morning, it IS harder then 210. You need to study or you're not gonna pass. My exam had lot of RAID questions, dealing with disk management. also lot of printing premissions, know RRas, win2k installation, three to four questions were on recovery from bad driver installation or system crash or whatnot. you need to know to go to recovery console, or when to invoke last good conf etc etc. one question on NAT, eh that's all I remember.

Goodluck!

 

[rile0161]

Do we get some kind of certificate for passing these or something? At the testing center I just got a printout saying I passed, no follow up e-mail or anything as of yet. These are my first certifications so I don't know what to expect. Thanks!

 

[VSOP]

Microsoft will send an email to the account you used when you signed up for the Test.
Once you pass one of the test you are a MCP. Take all 5 of the core exams and you
will be a MCSE.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: VSOP
Microsoft will send an email to the account you used when you signed up for the Test.
Once you pass one of the test you are a MCP. Take all 5 of the core exams and you
will be a MCSE.

If you are already an MCSE (NT4), then all you have to do is take the 5 cores to become MCSE (that is if your electives transfer over); HOWEVER, if you only got your MCP in 4.0 or you haven't taken a MS test at all, you need to take 7 test to get your MCSE 2000.