CPaul's BD for Enterprise 70-68

I just discovered this site tonight; took Enterprise yesterday. I studied pretty hard for four days, concentrating on ExamCram and the Transcender tests, which are both very helpful.

I knew nothing at all about networking and MicroSoft until I enrolled in a night school college-degree prgram in Info Sciences. They prep you here for MicroSoft material. I work as a doctor during the day (and at night, sometimes). Enterprise was the fourth core exam I've passed, all on the first try. But I haven't always had super high scores. I found Network Essentials tough, Workstation very easy, and Server fairly challenging. I got 862 on Enterprise; 51 questions, 90 minutes. I felt like I knew this stuff cold, but the test was still hard, and I used 88 minutes to finish, leaving only 2 minutes for review.

The worst surprise was four or five scenario questions that were so long they required you to scroll the page to see the entire question. Then... several of these had exhibits, and two of these actually had TWO exhibits. So, you had to scroll the question and refer back and forth to two different exhibits, and this takes a lot of time. At least they had two questions for each of this type of scenario, so you already knew the story by the time you reached the second question of the pair.

You have to know trusts very well, but that's no surprise. Probably 40% of the questions on this test mentioned trusts in some way.

Make sure you know how to add users to Global groups, and what you can and can't do across domains. There were a couple of questions about what resources were available to a user depending on where they logged in from and to.

Two questions on IIS, including one about what to do with one NIC servicing 10 web clients.

Only two RAS questions, both dealing with one scenario emphasizing RAS security- what kind of security do you get if you put a hardware third-party machine between the RAS client and the RAS server? Do you enable clear-text authentication and let the hardware do the required encryption?

Quite a bit about fault tolerance- definitely you should understand stripe sets and disk duplexing. There was one question about a stripe set that lost TWO disks, not just one.

Several questions about where you work with and store policies and user profiles.

There were a couple of questions that dealt with where you do certain things, primarily CONTROL PANEL - NETWORK, CONTROL PANEL - SYSTEM, and USER MANAGER FOR DOMAINS.

The test was fair in the Troubleshooting area, with not too many questions. There were several questions where you could answer Last Known Good.

There were several questions dealing with routing, including one that had RIP for IP and RIP for IPX as potential answers, even though the right answer was DHCP relay agent.

There was surprisingly little on WINS and DNS, but a lot on DHCP. This was probably just my version of the test, though.

At least four questions used SCSI drives in the question, although it made little difference to the answer.

Only two printer questions. I thought they were going to hit this a lot harder.

A few questions about Performance Monitor and Network Monitor, but nothing too tough. Nothing about UDP Ports, datagrams, frame composition.

BOTTOM LINE: you will pass this test if you know the material well, but you will have to think harder and integrate your knowledge better than on any of the other core exams. These aren't short answer-type questions where you can call up a memorized answer from your brain. There are a LOT of scenarios, and they take a long time to read fully (although I am somewhat compulsive). Unless you are really a whiz, expect to fully use your 90 minutes; on the other hand, this should be enough time to get through it.