070-300 system error

070-300 was my last examination for MCSD. I faced the following system
problem ( System get hanged in between and probably my answers were reset
when the exam center superviser did something to get back the systemon track)
while appearing. If any body had earlier faced such problem, please let me
know? Who should be right person to be contacted to resolve such kind of
problem and disputes?

I was appearing for this exam from a prometric exam center in Tokyo, Japan.
I was supposed to answer to a total of 36 question in 150 minutes. There were
3 sections.
In the first section there were around 13/14 questions to be answered in 45
minutes or so. After ansering all the question I reviewed all my answers
without making any change. I was in the review summary list screen while the
max time alloted elapsed. A pop up warning message came saying more like
"your answering time has been over !!!". Then the system get hanged. I call
for the center superviser for help. They came and did something to get the
system in track. Then I was in the second section having 9 questions of max
time 30 minutes. I asked them if my previous section of ansers have been
properly submitted, I did not get an assurance from them. Any wasy as time
timer for the second section was going on I chose to go for the second set of
questions.There was no problem then onwards and the Third section was also
fine. At the end of the answering , I was looking for the comment about the
first section of 14 question.I did not get those. So when I pressed the end
button finally I was greeted with a failure message scoring 636 Where I was
expecting a score of more than 900.

At the end of session I had wrote my complain in a supplied specified
formatted paper from that prometric exam center. I also wrote an e- mail to
the regional MCP support center at Japan about this. I am waiting for a reply
from them.

Also can anybody who have appeared this 070-300 paper can confirm the
following-In every section, the acutal question you get to answer starts
from 3 rather than 1 (Top right hand screen).For the first two sequence
number 1 and 2 , you get the description about the case studies. When you
press next button repeatedly, when you wiill get your first question and at
that time the screen on the top will be indicating the number as 3.

Earlier I had appeared four papers ( 070-315, 070-316, 070-320 and 070-229),
I did not faced any such problem.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Regards,
Deepak

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i just failed 70-300 with VUE testing centre (in United Kingdom). i have
taken a total of 4 previous exams (full MCAD + 70-229 elective for
MCSD). all passed and no errors with the client computer i used. until now!

I had a very similar experience to yours. my system crashed during the
first section with some standard unhandled (haha!) Win32 errors, then it
bombed out. the one other user in the room had the same thing happen.
the staff rebooted and restarted my exam for me, which seemed to carry
on where i'd left off (except the order of the possible answers had
changed around!). at the end, i noticed that i didn't get the same
chance to comment/review as i did on the next sections.

i don't remember anything odd about the numbering of the questions like
you described, but i didn't take much notice really. i will next time!

the exam is certainly very different from the other exams. the ability
to be able to print-out the case studies to enable one to
read/refer/highlight would be welcomed. surely this is what you'd do if
it were 'real life'. the fiddly interface and mice that never have their
mouse-wheel enabled are purely a hinderence to the overall process,
imho. augment this with the way "microsoft's way" of doing things is
what's required, rather than the "technically correct" and add to that
w/ the system crashing and not being able to easily refer to how much
time you have left PER QUESTION ...you've got yourself a very low chance
of getting a good pass mark i feel.

some say 70-300 is the hardest. i think it depends on your experience
--not just amount of, but also type of.

at least i registered for the 2nd chance free offer


mark

Mark

Hello,

I've just passed the exam (86 but it was really hard. I used online
courses from Netg (and they did not cover quite a lot) and practice test
from MeasureUp. I failed every second question in practice test so I had to
read explanation why was I wrong. But this greatly improved my undertanding
of the topic. Lucky me for getting this practice test in their newsletter
lottery

Wish you good luck with the second try.

Regards,
Alexey

Alexey Peshekhonov

I have taken 18 Microsoft exams so far and I have seen this problem a couple
of times when the test application crashed but I have never lost anything.
This inlcudes the 71-300 (beta exam for 70-300) when the software crashed two
times.

--
Mehran Nikoo


"Deepak Mohanta" wrote:

> 070-300 was my last examination for MCSD. I faced the following system
> problem ( System get hanged in between and probably my answers were reset
> when the exam center superviser did something to get back the systemon track)
> while appearing. If any body had earlier faced such problem, please let me
> know? Who should be right person to be contacted to resolve such kind of
> problem and disputes?
>
> I was appearing for this exam from a prometric exam center in Tokyo, Japan.
> I was supposed to answer to a total of 36 question in 150 minutes. There were
> 3 sections.
> In the first section there were around 13/14 questions to be answered in 45
> minutes or so. After ansering all the question I reviewed all my answers
> without making any change. I was in the review summary list screen while the
> max time alloted elapsed. A pop up warning message came saying more like
> "your answering time has been over !!!". Then the system get hanged. I call
> for the center superviser for help. They came and did something to get the
> system in track. Then I was in the second section having 9 questions of max
> time 30 minutes. I asked them if my previous section of ansers have been
> properly submitted, I did not get an assurance from them. Any wasy as time
> timer for the second section was going on I chose to go for the second set of
> questions.There was no problem then onwards and the Third section was also
> fine. At the end of the answering , I was looking for the comment about the
> first section of 14 question.I did not get those. So when I pressed the end
> button finally I was greeted with a failure message scoring 636 Where I was
> expecting a score of more than 900.
>
> At the end of session I had wrote my complain in a supplied specified
> formatted paper from that prometric exam center. I also wrote an e- mail to
> the regional MCP support center at Japan about this. I am waiting for a reply
> from them.
>
> Also can anybody who have appeared this 070-300 paper can confirm the
> following-In every section, the acutal question you get to answer starts
> from 3 rather than 1 (Top right hand screen).For the first two sequence
> number 1 and 2 , you get the description about the case studies. When you
> press next button repeatedly, when you wiill get your first question and at
> that time the screen on the top will be indicating the number as 3.
>
> Earlier I had appeared four papers ( 070-315, 070-316, 070-320 and 070-229),
> I did not faced any such problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for your reply.
>
> Regards,
> Deepak
>

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