I just got done failing the 70-290 exam. I've been studying using primarily the Windows Server 2003 Environment Training Kit, published by Microsoft. I went through the entire book, did all the practice questions - both in the book and on the CD, as well as some other practice exams. Funny thing... the practice questions all had something to do with the study material and exam objectives. A large number of the questions on the actual exam didn't. I thought I was supposed to learn about physical and logical devices; users, computers and groups; access to resources; managing a server; and disaster recovery. But apparently, I forgot to study up on Visual Basic. And was my test computer screwed, or do all the Microsoft exams have 1/2" high screen fonts? So now I'm left with the question, what the hell do I study? MIK