291 exam

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Hi guys take my 291 exam next week. does anyone who took the exam know if the Microsoft calculator is available in the exam. I am sure it was on the Server exam. I hope so for any subnetting questions that turn up

Cheers
Wtjj

 

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As far as i am aware you cannot take a calculator in for any of the MCSE exams.

Si (waiting to be corrected)

 

Hi thanks

Yeah I know you cant take anything in to the exam room but i think when I took my server exam the calculator was available on screen just like in windows.

 

yes you are correct in all my MS exams a calculator is on the screen - just not sure if you can do binary on it!

im studying for 291 too! how long have you been studying for?

 

oh, that is fair enough.

Si

 

Thanks

I was hoping I was right just couldnt remember. If you switch the calc to scientific view you can convert decimal to binary and so on.

I was checking out some of the posts pointing to learntosubnet.com

It is a very helpfull site, just got to remember RFC 1812 whilst calculating number of subnets. On most of the Microsoft exams they tell you that the router is RFC 1812 compliant.

Thanks again

 

Sorry Zimbo I have been studying this for about 6 weeks now. I an doing well on the Trancenders but you cant rely on that.

 

im glad you asked because up until now i didnt pay much attention to it now for 291! Best of luck with the exam and let me know how it went because im hot on your heals!

 

Hm - the reference to RFC 1812 looks to be very useful. Thanks for the pointer.

Harry.

 

Thanks

I will let you know how I get on next week. Truth is I am dreading this one.

Cheers for now

 

yeah me too! I know about 50% of the subnetting material and supernetting! DNS is all good.. just a few problems here and there but nothing at all like my subnetting! I knew i was going to struggle with that area so its no suprise really.

 

probably too late but passed this today.. you get the calculator but it's locked into standard mode so no binary . then again i didn't get any questions where i needed it

 

could be too late for him but im writing in a month so thanks for the heads up but i can do binary good!

 

good luck. the trainer told us only 21% of candidates pass this exam first time ..not sure where he got that figure from though

also told us to study for 8-12 weeks. that was a fortnight ago

 

I hate you! 21%?

 

well done

Si

 

Hi

Well I sit this exam tomorrow bit concerned about not being able to use the Scientific calc as my trainer told us that was an option. I had better have a look at some manual conversions over the next few hours.

 

Congrats on the Pass mate and thanks for the heads up on the calc.

TD

 

no problem, good luck. be interested to know what you thought of the exam.

 

Well I have sorted out my maths. I will post again tomorrow either way. Off for some sleep now.

Thanks Guys