Passed 70-229!

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Yeah! Passed with 793!
Crikey that was difficult.
Got 100% in two sections (Developing a Logical Data Model & Implementing the Physical Database), but weirdly did badly in Security Plan, which I though I was pretty good at.
Indexes definitely came up a lot.
Glad that's over.

Onto 70-228!

 

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Nice one!

 

Congratz!

 

Well done!
It's a pig...

 

Nice one mate!

 

Congrats mate!

 

Gazza,

Excellent! Grab a beer .

What materials did you use to prepare?

Si

 

Congrats Gaz, that is a brilliant achievement

 

w00t!

Fantastic news - looks like you passed it like me (skin of your teeth!)

It is a b1tch of an exam isn't it? I remember sitting there at one point trying to work out the answer to a question on full-outer joins for about 20 minutes... before realising I had about 45 minutes left to answer 20-odd questions

interesting how now they give you a detailed score report providing areas where you're weak - when i took it all I got was a pass or fail together with my score. Thank God I passed, otherwise I'd have ended up not knowing which areas I was weak on (although, to be honest, it was probably all of them )

Congratulations!

 

Congratulations

 

Thanks all. Feeling immensely relieved at the moment!
Got my MCP ID and stuff last night so I'm all signed up for that.
4-6 weeks for my welcome pack though!

Boycey - I used the Sybex book, good as my main learning guide.

I bought the Exam Cram 2 book after going through the Sybex book, this is an excellent book & I highly recommend it. (As long as you already covered something like Sybex/MS Press books etc, it can't be used a main reference). It's very easy to read and explains things well.

Books Online was heavily used, of course.

I also had some Netg online stuff, but IMHO, wasn't worth the time I spent looking at it. Others have told me they found it very useful though, so I suppose it depends.

Got the Transcender software a few weeks before the exam which was also pretty useful, but I probably did overuse it.


Zeb - yeah, hope they get easier from here!
By 100% I mean the score bar they give you was all the way across the page to 'Strong' for these sections - I took this to mean I got all the questions right but I may be mistaken.

 

Well done on the pass Gaz

I passed this exam about a month ago and found exactly the same thing as you in regard to the Security section - I don't recall any security questions that I struggled on yet only got 40-50% on that section!
You should have no problems with 70-228 now as you've done the most difficult of the two SQL exams

 

well done mate Good feeling Eh!