Re: MCSE Exam Simulations

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> Many thanks for the lucid intelligent reply. I am not trying to cheat
> and have no need to.

Good, but it seems that that is not always the case.

>When I attained a BSc from London University
> years ago that "revered institution" sold their own exam papers from
> previous years and probably still does. Does this not happen
> Stateside?

Probably, but I never have paid for them.

>That is all I am asking for - how can reading past papers
> be cheating?

It wouldn't be if Microsoft were the one's offering them up and they
were
questions that weren't going to be asked again. But that is not the
case.

>I have it on good advice that half the struggle with MS
> exams is grappling with the devious way in which the questions are
> composed, not the material itself.

Not true, the questions as far as I have experienced aren't really
devious
at all. Sometimes they are very complex and you have to know the subject

extremely well to answer them appropriately. That would be the point of
the
test, to measure knowledge of the product.

> And yes I have read study guides, user manuals and gained years of
> experience in IT. This is not the first time I have come across
> posters who make rash and rapid assumptions about people - did I say
> Testking were any good?

No, you didn't. But, A$$FUSKRS don't usually make a point about which is

good and which is bad. They are just interested in passing the tests in
the
easiest way possible. You do not seem to be one of them. I am sorry I
didn't
notice that first. I'm kinda knew here.

> That's three questions in this post BTW but I don't think its me
> that's wasting space here

Now what does that mean exactly?

> OK fourth one - if these cowboys are selling answers written down by
> paid "sitters" is that why so many of the answers in their prodcuts
> are crap or at best highly debatable?!

Yes, that's why, and I have forgotten, did someone earlier say that or
is
this something you have noticed by acquiring these products?

Oh, the most cost effective way to prepare yourself is really to build a

network as cheaply as possible and use material from your local library
and
the mountain of documentation that comes with the the product in the
help
and support center. Classes are good if you don't know a certain aspect
of
the product. My downfall is still RRAS. I purchased a fifty dollar book
that
I could use at work and to help study and build the test environment as
though I didn't have anything but windows machines and layer 2 switches.

Seems weird, but it is Microsoft's product and their test I'm taking so,

that's why I'm doing it.

> Does a rhetorical question count? I'm losing count here.

Ask all the questions you want, but, you may not always like the
answers.

> (Answer: A Turtle)
I think the answer here is:
it's turles all the way down.

LRM
When they have taken everything all you have left is your honor

Pedro Simoes