What To Study For? WSUS or SUS?
Everyone who knows me knows I'm studying to upgrade my MCSE Cert for work. I've
been slowly chugging along in getting ready for my two exams and have ranted
several times over various things that are just plane stupid in this book. All
of my previous rants can be pretty much blamed on the author(s) and the
editor(s). However, I've just come up with one that is squarely a Microsoft
issue.
The problem is that I've hit the section regarding the Manage software
update infrastructure objective in the 70-292 exam in which it talkes in
the book about Microsoft's Software Update Services (SUS). Well, SUS has since
been replaced with Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) and in fact all
support for SUS will stop at the end of the year. It will literally stop
working forcing everyone to use WSUS. That's not a big deal, but What the
hell am I supposed to study for?!
I've checked the Microsoft Press section
for the book I'm using for an errata which doesn't seem to exist so it seems
they haven't updated their text. Or perhaps they just don't care to update it?
I've searched on various forums only to get the impression that they are still
testing for SUS, but that's just an impression and nothing I could take as a
solid answer. So, at this point, assuming they are going to test me on
something that won't work in a few months I went to download the older version
of SUS only to be redirected to a download for WSUS.
At this point I have no solid answers on what I am going to be tested for. And
if it is still SUS then I have no way of actually using it before the exam
forcing me to simply read, look at screen shots, and hope I don't get to many
questions on it. Or, if the test is on WSUS then I have no official study
material to prep for this thing. Which means I'll just have to grab a white
paper, install it, and hope I accidentally teach myself the specific bits they
are going to test me on.
I find this utterly ridiculous. If they want to test me on old unsupported
technology then that's their stupid decision. I'd much rather spend my time
learning something I'll actually use at work. Ultimately, I really don't care one way or another what
they test me on so long as I know what the hell I need to learn. I just want
to get the exams over with so I can get back to learning more stimulating
things (aka something not Microsoft).