I took NTS4 today (January 25, 1999), and I just wanted to warn you out there that Microsoft does have an adaptive version of the test now. Instead of the usual 55 questions, the test ended up being a total of 25 of which maybe 15 or so were adaptive while the rest were your garden variety NTS4 questions. I was quite

surprised when I started the exam when it told me the test was adaptive. This format lowers the required score to 545 (I only got a 666) so that's in your favor.

The test is in two parts. 15 to 25 questions for the adaptive part plus ten questions. The test therefore is 25 to 35 questions.

The passing score is 545, I got 614. They do not tell you what areas you missed questions in. They do not tell you how many questions you got wrong.

NONE OF THE QUESTIONS WERE FROM TRANSCENDER.

Taken on December 30th, 1998. Passed with an 818. Not the best score in the world but i'll take it. This test was NOT ADAPTIVE, despite what other people may think. If the test is not adaptive in one area it's not adaptive, period.

Anyways, i got that controversial question about logging into the network with the server being down and mandatory profiles. I chose "could not log into network". I got a 87% on connectivity so I dont  know if I was right or not (I think I got some other connectivity q's  wrong)

Know Novell, RAS, RAID. Read other braindumps. I used the dumps, New  Riders book, a little Exam Cram, and lots of Transcenders.

Good luck! Onto Enterprise for me...

Just back from test. Scored 945 on this one.   What I must say, if u want to pass fo sure, study hard those braindumps.   About 3 weeks ago I took same test, and failed, needed just 1 more answer right.

I only used Sybex's Study guide, which as everybody says is piece of s**t. Acctualy, it's true - when I tried transceder tests later, I couldn't find almost 50% answers on book.

My 'tools':
Sybex study guide for NT Server. (got from friend, he's got whole set of 4, bought somewhere for $100) Braindumps - especially ones w/o answers - I look up at nt server itself for most answers. (those free, at least for now)
Transceder!!!! This thing RuLeZ!!!! I got one somewhere on web, y'know, 'warez', got all questions'n'stuff, and today when i took test, i see - about 40-45 questions right as in transceder! (warez's free ;) )
Also, other demo tests, as peptest, or CNE something test...

Thoughts about exam and braindumps: some really professional people say: using braindumps is cheating. Well, i'd say this:  I read books and practice on nt server just to know it for myself. this exam is for paper, which doesn't mean anything just by itself. You can pass test even without sitting at NT. (even not using braindumps, only book, just as i did on networking essentials, only book, and passed 1st time)  Those questions on test: what's the difference if answers is practically the same, just one points to server manager, other to user manager for domains or whatever: in real life, i go there, if i don't see there, i go somewhere else and find! What's the difference if tab called 'properties' or 'options', i go there and see. and from another point - people who uses NT right from begining, can't pass exam just like this, because of those stupid questions, 'properties' or 'options'.  I said to myself: I read books and practice on NT for myself, for knowledge, and I read those braindumps for test, because test doesn't give u anything but paper.  And those tests: the guy who supposed to watch me, dissappeared for good 20 mins, I could take out my palmpc (lucky i have one) and just search all the answers I prepared yesterday, but i didn't, just for 'i have to do it myself' thing. And I'm pretty sure somebody just pasted answers from lists or whatever. that's not fair.   Oh well, so much for the exam. No questions, just because all questions are here anyway.

I had 7(!) Question about Performance Monitor

7(!) ----------------------- RAS ( not easy ones ! )

2 ------------------------- ARC ( ARC is easy, just try to understand them in first place )

Don't even try to pass Exam without Transender Exam Training

 brain dumps were a big, big help.  i used marc's for the most part and pepito's as a study guide.  there were some changes and rewording that i might have gotten caught by but other than that the dumps were right on here are the ones i was confused on:
should smnp be installed on ws or server
paging should not be on boot partition, system partition or both???
are 3.51 print drivers compatible with 4.0 drivers?
can win95 and win nt workstations import?
the procedure to add ws to network.

i had 50% down cold  -- 10% got down to 2 choices which i thought were definitely a judgement -- call had to guess even if i had reference materials i couldnt have know for sure.

1 question on auditing i had no idea.  Went to a $2000 training course which was very little help for passing the test it gave a little hands on experience --my advice is to go over the dumps and cramsession --  hope this helps  ....  thanks to everyone

Test Name:NT Server 4.0  Test # 70-67

Hi All

Failed nt server 70-67 today with a 705 , my first taste of adaptive, starts of medium hard and then asks repeated questions on your weakest answers.  Test format looks much the same and you can still mark answers for review later. Because of the nature of the test majority of questions will be unique to candidate so is there any point in posting questions ? The weird thing was lowest scores for me were in connectivity 48% , the server in enterprise I took immediately after scored 100% in connectivity and passed with an 830 !

Good luck everyone and if your thinking of doing some exams do it now before they all turn adaptive

The exam was easy in my opinion though i did not spend much time doing it.  I had 40 minutes left and clicked the end test knowing i am definitely passing with a good score. How was i that sure. BECAUSE OF ALL THE STUFF YOU GUYS POSTED IN TO THIS GREAT SITE!!!!  Believe me most of the questions i got were the same questions that i saw on this site. There were a few questions of course that i hadn't seen.  There was one question which is as follows, (pretty unique) Yuu need to allow the users dialing in to the ras server to be able to choose there own encryption level. PLease select the configuration option you would choose in this window (may not be the exact wording but that was the idea) Gives you the window in which can select any authentication, encrypted authentication, microsoft encrypted authentication. you know what i mean don't you?   You have to place the cursor on the answer and click and it makes a big plus mark on it. I chose any authentication  There was another question which was Your network consists of Windows 95 clients using 3rd party software. The 3rd party software only allows you to use DES. What is the highest encrypted authentication level you can configure? encrypted auhentication is what i chose.

There were questions about whether to choose user/group account on netware/nt server. ? Remember these stuff! I am terribly sorry but that's all i can remember. However i must insist that it would be appropriate to read pepito's and marcs dumps definitely in addtion to the others.    Passed three, three more to go. Thinking of doing enterprise workstationand exchange server. Wish me luck!

Thanks guys.

To keep my comments from repeating others' work, here are the "notes" to look at. The information from these people's input covered exactly the questions on my exam. There was nothing on my test that I hadn't seen before. Only the wording was slightly different.

So here are the people to study:
masgood, outastep, anon19, jimbob, ton, and butcher. I especially studied anon19 and jimbob. They were really on the mark.  I also used exam cram for initial preparation and MCSE in a Nutshell(great book for $20) to review. Then the infamous Transcenders and this site for my last week of study. Well, three down and three to go. Thanks a bunch and I'll definitely be tapping in to study for Enterprise.

Thank You,

This isn't exactly a brain dump, but I feel like it applys to people who are about to take this test (such as myself).   On an NTFS filesystem, is it correct to say that when a user belongs to two different groups and the groups have different permissions for a file, then NT uses the LEAST restrictive priviledge?  Take it one step further. A user belongs to two different groups and the groups have different permissions for a share, the NT uses the MOST restrictive priviledge?  This is how I understand it, but correct me if I am wrong.

I passed my NT4.0 Enterprise yesterday, I passed it thanks to the one you guys seem to forget.   GOD. The natural force that is there when we say how in the F*** did I do that. The Gxxx way, thats how.

Please remind your users that passing an exam does not constitute a a knowledge for the real world.  SMS, Proxy, or IIS 4.0, what should I take? If there is any one out there that could advice please do I would really appriate it.

Resources
Microsoft press Self Study course
Transcender Tests (good source)
Braindumps!!! (excellent source).

I wanted to state between the Transcender tests and this site everything was covered.   Understand the basic concepts of Domains and groups and you will be able to grasp the other problems much easier.