2285B Prerequisites

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2285b Installing, Configuring & Administering Windows XP Professional - Prerequisites

According to the official course book, it says that you need:

A+ Certification or equivalent knowledge
N+ Certification or equivalent knowledge

and either:

#2208 Updating Support Skills with Windows NT4.0 to Windows Server 2003

-or-

#2274 Managing a Server 2003 Environment
#2275 Maintaining a Server 2003 Environment

To be honest the book looks pretty easy as I have lots of experience with WinXP. I have A+, and have started N+ but haven't got very far yet - I have a fair bit of networking knowledge though. I can't see the course really demands it to be honest. Question is, would this stop me from taking the exam? Or do you recommend that I finish the N+ first (it will take me a while, unlike the XP course). Also my employer will pay for my MCP exams..

 

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Depends on what your Xp experience is really.

You might want to look at the book/exam requirments for 70-270 instead if you're intending to go the MCSE route.

If you think that' s a little too far ahead then the MSCDT with 70-271 and 272 may be better.

It will also depend on how much you're done supporting Xp desktops on anetwork with a server.

 

Have a look at the course content here :

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/syllabi/2285bfinal.mspx

and try to gauge how much of it you think you have covered in terms of experience

 

Hold on, this may sound daft but is 70-270 and 2285b the same thing, i.e. installing, configuring & administering XP Pro..?

 

Could be, I'm not sure. If I've read it correctly then 2285b is a classroom course but may only cover part of the syllabus. Which exam is it you wnat to take ?

 

My book says 2285B Installing, Configuring & Administering Windows XP Pro. Which I thought was for the 70-270 exam...

 

Also,

 

I think you may be right :

http://learning.microsoft.com/Manag...able&Sort=TitleAscending&page=1&search=70-270

The "b" seems to be for a classroom course.

 

OK, in that case I may as well do that and get my first MCP out of the way, it should be pretty easy, a bit of light bedtime reading.. Passing that should then motivate me to do my Network+ and then on to some Server stuff.