Personal website of Dave Hope » Certifications http://davehope.co.uk Open source projects, sysadmin stuff and the home of Product Key Finder Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:47:18 +0000 en hourly 1 Microsoft 70-292 http://davehope.co.uk/Blog/microsoft-70-292/ http://davehope.co.uk/Blog/microsoft-70-292/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:27:08 +0000 Dave http://davehope.co.uk/?p=53 I finally got around to taking my 70-292 exam to upgrade my MCSA from 2000 to 2003. Passed first time which is a good thing too, since today is the last day you can officially take the exam. Prometric currently seem to be offering the exam to mid May, but there’s no guarantee that’ll be the case.

The exam itself was far more difficult than any of the previous ones I’ve done, the key areas to know are

  • DNS – Probably about 20% of the exam is on DNS, replication, round-robbin etc so know it well;
  • POSIX Groups – Know about them, and their limitations;
  • VSS – Shadow Copies plays a big part in the exam, know about it and the requirements for using it;
  • Backups – For some unbeknown reason Microsoft went over the top with NTBackup stuff, so know about that, ASR, IIS Backups and what’s included in System State;
  • SUS – Know about SUS (A separate download, requires IIS) and how to view logs and the approval process;

Good luck in passing!

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