NT Server 4.0 in the Enterprise - 70-068

I wrote the Enterprise exam yesterday 21/09/98 and failed with a mark of 768.
I was very disappointed as I had worked really hard for this one and didn't
expect it to be an easy one. I have already passed the following MCSE exams
with good marks, all in the 900's, Network Essentails, NT Workstation & NT Server.

I have been in the IT industry for quite a while and am currently running an
NT network between Melbourne and Perth for over 700 users. I really thought
I was prepared for this exam especially after attending the Microsoft lecture
based classes, reading the red Exam Cram books and doing as many Transcender
and Braindumps I could get my hands on.

The format for the exam has definitely changed they have increased the time
from 90 minutes to 110 and have made the questions longer and trickier. I had
12 involved scenario type questions, some with at least 4 options. They covered
the inter-trust relationships between varies cities and the RAS scenarios in depth,
at first glace they look very similar to the trancsender questions and the questions
on the braindumps, but they have turned them around to include additional things
which have to be considered. The remainder of the questions were long winded and
took time to read and sort out. Time is very much an issue, I used every minute
available and could have done with more. On all the other tests I finished around
the 40 minute mark. To me this looked like a Beta test and M$ might be changing things.

You have to now RAS, DHCP, WINS, Relay agent, RIP for IP very well, when to use them and when not to, how they can improve bandwidth on a WAN link or with a router. There were a lot of questions on Performance Monitoring and the usual on fault  tolerance.    Trusts played a big part and you need to now when are you a member of the guest account or the domain users account (there must have been at least 4 questions on this subject).  Response Probe is still there and I'm not sure whether this a trick question as Tech-Net  states that before you use it be aware that M$ does not support it. 

I have resigned myself to the fact that if I had of known my work as well as I thought,
I would have passed irrelevant of what paper was thrown at me. It has given me the
opportunity to go back and learn the sections I felt unsure on in the test.
I am hoping to re-book for the exam this Friday and hopefully I will be more prepared
this time.


Thanks to every one for their contributions to this site and sorry my effort is not
more detailed. But what it comes down to is not learning the model answers, but knowing
why an answer is right or wrong and you can only do that if you know your work and if
you don't M$ will certainly take advantage of that and trip you up.

Thanks again

Kevin.