Cert 70-290

There appears to be an upgrade course # 2208 for the 70-290 cert for NT4
MCSE's. Does anyone know if there is a book on the course 2208 instead of
having to physically attend a seminar for 3 day's. I have not found a book to
study from as of yet.

Thanks,

Dhar

"Dhar" <> wrote in message
news:93905CBE-3B09-4736-AFC8-...
> There appears to be an upgrade course # 2208 for the 70-290 cert for NT4
> MCSE's. Does anyone know if there is a book on the course 2208 instead of
> having to physically attend a seminar for 3 day's. I have not found a book
> to
> study from as of yet.
>
> Thanks,
>

To tell you the truth, If I were you I would just go ahead and purchase the
regular training kit for 70-290 and not worry about course 2208. The fact
is that Server 2003 is VERY different from NT. Trying to draw parallels
between those products would be difficult at best. I can't believe
Microsoft could stretch that to 3 days anyway. Your MCSE NT4 will satisfy
the elective requirement for MCSE 2003, but you will still have to take all
4 core exams plus a design elective, plus a client elective (unless you used
70-210 or 70-270 for your MCSE NT4). Because of the introduction of Active
Directory and group policies, about the only thing from NT4 which will be
helpful on the 70-290 exam is an understanding of the old domain models
(where you had resource domains and user domains) and how to
update/reorganize and consolidate those to single AD domains in 2003, which
will be covered in the 70-290 training kit.

Of course, that is just personal opinion. Your mileage may vary.

John R

John R

Thanks John...I was considering going thru the 70-290 as you suggested and in
the back of my mind I had to consider the upgrade course when I noticed it.
The info you provided is very helpful and accurate as I viewed the same info
on the MS site. Again thanks for your assistance.

Dave

"John R" wrote:

>
> "Dhar" <> wrote in message
> news:93905CBE-3B09-4736-AFC8-...
> > There appears to be an upgrade course # 2208 for the 70-290 cert for NT4
> > MCSE's. Does anyone know if there is a book on the course 2208 instead of
> > having to physically attend a seminar for 3 day's. I have not found a book
> > to
> > study from as of yet.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>
> To tell you the truth, If I were you I would just go ahead and purchase the
> regular training kit for 70-290 and not worry about course 2208. The fact
> is that Server 2003 is VERY different from NT. Trying to draw parallels
> between those products would be difficult at best. I can't believe
> Microsoft could stretch that to 3 days anyway. Your MCSE NT4 will satisfy
> the elective requirement for MCSE 2003, but you will still have to take all
> 4 core exams plus a design elective, plus a client elective (unless you used
> 70-210 or 70-270 for your MCSE NT4). Because of the introduction of Active
> Directory and group policies, about the only thing from NT4 which will be
> helpful on the 70-290 exam is an understanding of the old domain models
> (where you had resource domains and user domains) and how to
> update/reorganize and consolidate those to single AD domains in 2003, which
> will be covered in the 70-290 training kit.
>
> Of course, that is just personal opinion. Your mileage may vary.
>
> John R
>
>
>

Dhar

The other thing to consider is that only 7% of the upgrade exams are
passed...
Your time and money are better spent going the direct route!

"Dhar" <> wrote in message
news:B798BE83-5DBA-464C-9AA8-...
> Thanks John...I was considering going thru the 70-290 as you suggested and
> in
> the back of my mind I had to consider the upgrade course when I noticed
> it.
> The info you provided is very helpful and accurate as I viewed the same
> info
> on the MS site. Again thanks for your assistance.
>
> Dave
>
> "John R" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Dhar" <> wrote in message
>> news:93905CBE-3B09-4736-AFC8-...
>> > There appears to be an upgrade course # 2208 for the 70-290 cert for
>> > NT4
>> > MCSE's. Does anyone know if there is a book on the course 2208 instead
>> > of
>> > having to physically attend a seminar for 3 day's. I have not found a
>> > book
>> > to
>> > study from as of yet.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>>
>> To tell you the truth, If I were you I would just go ahead and purchase
>> the
>> regular training kit for 70-290 and not worry about course 2208. The
>> fact
>> is that Server 2003 is VERY different from NT. Trying to draw parallels
>> between those products would be difficult at best. I can't believe
>> Microsoft could stretch that to 3 days anyway. Your MCSE NT4 will
>> satisfy
>> the elective requirement for MCSE 2003, but you will still have to take
>> all
>> 4 core exams plus a design elective, plus a client elective (unless you
>> used
>> 70-210 or 70-270 for your MCSE NT4). Because of the introduction of
>> Active
>> Directory and group policies, about the only thing from NT4 which will be
>> helpful on the 70-290 exam is an understanding of the old domain models
>> (where you had resource domains and user domains) and how to
>> update/reorganize and consolidate those to single AD domains in 2003,
>> which
>> will be covered in the 70-290 training kit.
>>
>> Of course, that is just personal opinion. Your mileage may vary.
>>
>> John R
>>
>>
>>

TK [MCSE,MCT]

"TK [MCSE,MCT]" <> wrote in news:40AC2D28-BD17-4EE6-
9760-:

> The other thing to consider is that only 7% of the upgrade exams are
> passed...

Where did you get this statistic from? If it is real I'd be interested in
seeing the overall pass/fail rate statistics.

Red Swingline Stapler