MCP here I come!

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Just a brief update, as my girlfriend and I are being taken out for a meal by a neighbour because of looking after her when she had a fall and had to be carted off to hospital!

Well, I passed!
Exam was a bit easier than I expected - probably because there was no Firewall questions nor any IE security settings questions! Passed with a score of 966, so I'm well impressed with myself at the mo - took 4 months and nearly every hour outside of work revising/studying its paid off.

I'll explain more on the day later - just thought I'd pass on the good news.

Profile and signature updated though

 

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Congrats on the pass mate

 

Well done mate

on to the 70-272

 

See? I figured you were well ready!! Congrats!

 

Well done matey. Don't forget to get signed up on the MCP members site and order your welcome pack.

 

Congrats on the pass... and the score.

 

A few days have passed now, its finally settled in - wow, I think it nearly killed me! It's like I've been hit with the exhaustion train! Normally only need/have/get 5-6 hours of sleep a night - Friday AM woke up late for work after works Xmas party, Saturday AM got up after 11 hours of sleep, this morning another 9 hours of sleep!!

Thanks for the congrats guys

GBL - yep, 70-272 now, depends how bored I get next week I may start doing some reading. I would like to get it done by Easter, but maybe tempted to push for the end of February - this one seems a little lighter than the other so we'll have to see.
Modey - I haven't registered yet for my MCP pack - I've got the embossed sheet from prometric, and I'll have a look at that in a mo. Haven't received any mails yet so may have to chase prometric, but they do say leave it a week or so before bothering them - either way I have the paper to say I've passed, it'll do for now!

Mike - indeed you did say I was ready - shows you're in the right line of work there!

Well, back to the day - as I said before my boss gave me a couple of hours off to do the exam - which was I nice gesture I thought - and made life a little easier. Took me about 15 mins on the tube to get to the exam centre, which was different than the ones I've visited in the past, this was 12 storeys up over looking the square mile of the City with some stunning views. I'd been use to sitting in a small air-conditioned room with one computer - this was a spacious room, no air-con thankfully, and had 6 exam computers set up. I was the only one taking an exam at that time so it meant I could spread and relax a little.

Prometric site said 2h45 for the exam, in the end it was 2h05 - 40 mins to comment on their questions, I did one or two that I thought we badly related to the course or were poorly worded but I got bored of this and just hit finished. Happy days, you've passed etc. I had 61 questions and took just over 1h25 to complete which seemed on par for the 53 questions about 1h15ish for the transcender tests.

Anyhow, work was well impressed with that result, just as much as they were finding out that I was going to volunteer for 3 hours each day on top of my normal 7.5 hour-working-day to work with the server team (the next logical step up) - it starts to pay off when you have something to show for it, rather than this talk "I'm doing these IT exams....."