Technical Difficulties with Exam 071-297

I've heard a few cases of beta exam 071-297 crashing. I was scheduled to
take it Saturday and got an email advising me to reschedule as the exam
wasn't ready. I rescheduled for today, showed up, and made it to question 3
in about 20 minutes (including a lot of reading). It then said I was out of
time and ended the entire exam. Subsequent efforts to complete it (after my
proctor called Prometric support, rebooted, and downloaded some patches)
yielded worse.

I realize this is a beta exam, but I always thought the content was beta,
not the test engine. Nonetheless I would like to take this exam but have no
time before it's scheduled ending. From the proctor's discussion with
Prometric it seems this is happening a lot.

From the chugging of the hard drive I believe this must really pound the
machine. Any similar experiences? Is Microsoft considering extending the
beta period (or perhaps have a beta 2 *LOL*)?

Michele Adams

What time did you have your exam? I had an exam scheduled for 10:00am EST
today and it was delayed 45 mins because "the system was down".



"Michele Adams" <shelly%at%lv.org> wrote in message
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> I've heard a few cases of beta exam 071-297 crashing. I was scheduled to
> take it Saturday and got an email advising me to reschedule as the exam
> wasn't ready. I rescheduled for today, showed up, and made it to question
3
> in about 20 minutes (including a lot of reading). It then said I was out
of
> time and ended the entire exam. Subsequent efforts to complete it (after
my
> proctor called Prometric support, rebooted, and downloaded some patches)
> yielded worse.
>
> I realize this is a beta exam, but I always thought the content was beta,
> not the test engine. Nonetheless I would like to take this exam but have
no
> time before it's scheduled ending. From the proctor's discussion with
> Prometric it seems this is happening a lot.
>
> From the chugging of the hard drive I believe this must really pound the
> machine. Any similar experiences? Is Microsoft considering extending
the
> beta period (or perhaps have a beta 2 *LOL*)?
>
>

Brendon Rogers