Sat Oct 14 21:28:34 EDT 2006

Closer to Certification Tests


Well, I've finally finished my huge, and largely annoying, "MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-292 and 70-296): Upgrading Your Certification to Microsoft Windows Server 2003" book. I've posted multiple times on my dislike for it so I won't go into it again. I'm just hoping that it gave me some good info that I can possibly recall during an exam. I believe it presented all the pertinent data, it just was very light on the review questions and even lighter on answer explanations. In other words, I need some reinforcement to bring up my confidence before I pay money to take a test. For this I'm falling back on the Exam Cram 2 series, which I had used as review material in the past. The nice thing about these books is there are about 10 questions at the end of each chapter with an answer key that gives the right answer along with an explanation on why the answer is correct. Additionally, it explains why the other answers are wrong. And the two 50 question practice exams in the back are very useful for figuring out what your weaknesses are.

Hopefully I'll be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel soon as get these exams out of my way. I'll only take them when I feel I'm ready and not a day sooner. No sense in giving my money to Microsoft for nothing.

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