70-272 passed today

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Which makes me the MCDST (finally!)

I have to admit, I majorly lost the enthusiasm with this one, and rescheduled the exam no less than 3 times before realising I was never going to get motivated on the material, and I might as well bite the bullet and see how my corporate experience fared.

The MS Press book for this was, for me, quite dry compared to the 271 material. I really couldn't stick with it, and therefore I don't think I could *really* recommend it to anyone as a preparation tool. That being said, I work with the software in it so much, I probably found it hard reading as it was trying to teach me to suck eggs.

I skimmed the objective question areas, and decided it would be worth a go. 792 was my passing score, so I was more than a little pleased with that.

For anyone looking to try the exam on experience alone, I support the following on a daily basis:

XP Professional users with a minimum of SP2 installed

VPN home users, XP SP2 on the PCs; we do not utilise remote desktop for users but I was aware of the facility.

Office 2003 patched to SP3 - including supporting document creation / amendment instead of just application troubleshooting

I also create and (attempt to) manage ghost images for the PCs, so I get a lot of hands-on with regards to application installation and troubleshooting.

Off to the library now to do the finishing touches on a Uni assignment

 

WOOP WOOP

Nice one dawn well done.

 

Thanks guys

Loneferret - without poo-pooing the NDA I can honestly say whilst I think the content overlaps, if you don't have the experience it's worth putting in the study. I can't hand-on-heart recommend the MS Press book as I thought it was quite shoddy, whilst the 271 book was well-written (in the main) and quite engaging.

It's probably worth mooching on Amazon or A.N Other site with reviews, to see what people think overall. As I said, my commercial experience probably knocked all the interest out of the 272 book altogether - there wasn't much "new" in it.

 

Congrats on the pass & new cred

-ken

 

Hell no lol. Far easier.