Re: 70-220 exam

While it may be very true that "one" person "MCSE" or not...probably not
even the manager...would design an entire install without assistance, it is
a fact that such an install would be approved or disapproved based on the
ideas, reputation and knowledge of one person ultimately! If that person is
you, then you would need to know the concepts, applicability, overall scope
of the install.

It is much easier to follow a plan or improve upon it...the real issue is
developing the design, the plan in the first place. That's why executives,
managers, CEO's, etc...get the big bucks. Once the plan is developed, if it
is done well, it's not at all difficult to follow it..
"Marko" <> wrote in message
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> Yep - Learn to read and absorb written info and diagrams
> by looking through a pipe of some sort.
>
> The scenarios and info present huge amounts of information
> that obviously cannot fit on a screen. So you have to
> scroll and remember which tab will present the bit of info
> you are looking for. I found myself almost reading the
> entire scenario again because I was looking for info to
> answer the question with.
>
> And you have to do this four times - once per scenario.
>
> I couldn't help but think that there would never be any
> one person that would ever have to come up with these
> solutions in the real world. Stuff like "You are the
> administrator of a network and your head office connects
> to the internet with a T1 link in New York. You have 3600
> workstations at the head office and 2300 in your Sydney
> office and 1200 in your Seattle office and 1400 in your
> New Deli manufacturing plant." Come on. There would be a
> team of MCSE's working out the strategy to use for this
> network, surely???
>
> I don't think it is enough to say "Know your stuff and you
> will be right". You have to take your time and think
> carefully about your answers. I remember one question was
> multiple choice and had about 13 possibilities of which I
> picked around half of them.
>
> These design exams take the longest to do. It is
> fortunate that ample time is given. So use all of it.
>
> Good luck!

Zenner

Hello Zenner

Your points were not lost on me. I realised these things
before I typed my response. I think I may not have been
as clear as I could have been.

What I tried to emphasize was that the scenarios very
clearly painted a picture whereby YOU (the exam candidate)
were to imagine that you were the one and only designer of
very large networks, working by yourself, with absolutely
no input from anyone else.

I was trying to get across that this would likely never
happen and certainly would not be ideal. Even for much
smaller networks.

In an ideal world, our input to Microsoft Exam question
writers would have them revisit these scenarios and
perhaps scale them down to what may be a more realistic
possibility. Or even phrase the material to reflect that
you are overviewing and providing input to the design.


I spoke to a guy who does Road Shows for Microsoft, in
Melbourne just two weeks ago. He demonstrates Windows
Server technologies and is a self confessed exam junkie,
having tackled more than thirty to date. The design exams
were fresh in his mind and he felt the same way; that the
questions and scenarios were not very close to the real
world.

He also mentioned that he just did 70-214 and felt he
could have passed just by reading the MS Press book on
this subject.

I mentioned that, having sat on my exam vouchers for
months, I went and booked 6 exams over one week up to the
day that they were to expire and I regretted this a lot. I
did 2 exams in one day twice, for example. By the time of
the last three exams on the last two days, it was really
hard not to feel anxious and nervous even though I knew
this stuff and felt as though I was blitzing the material
anyway.

The MS guy told me that he once did something similar and
failed his third exam because he couldn't concentrate. He
took it a few weeks later with little additional study and
felt as though he nailed it easilly. It was a design exam.

Marko