Hi! I passed today with 900, 757 required. I was my first try. This exam is not that
hard
just know your stuff
and be a little lucky ! I think I had an easy one.
I used the Microsoft Official Curriculum and the famous New Riders. I also did a lot of
testing and noticed a few minor errors in the New Riders.
Two more to go before being MCSE
So, what you have to know :
- When you must install GSNW on the site server.
- What to do before the first time you run Crystal Reports.
- Differences between primary/secondary sites and advantages the one to the other,
services at the secondary sites.
- SMSLS.INI mappings.
- What each service do.
- What you can do with Security Manager, Database Manager.
- The 3 phases of a job.
- How to have a "Run Command on a Workstation" job run on NT Server.
- What you need to connect 2 sites, how to test the network connection before establishing
a relationship, how to delete a site in the middle of the hierarchy.
- How to improve the performance of the site server and which services consume a lot of
processor overhead.
- How to improve the performance of sharing applications.
- The different types of SMS domains, when to create multiple SMS domains.
- What to do when the SMS service account expires.
- If files are stuck in a directory, which service is faulty.
- The role of the replicator service.
- How to complete the LMHOSTS file.
- The troubleshooting utilities (logs, SMSTRACE, TRACER, VIEWNAD,
)
- If a user runs deinstal.bat and another user logs after that, what will be used to
resync the computer in the database ? The computer name or the network ID ?
- If no Distribute Phase information is checked, SMS ensures that the package is available
to the target computers.
- What can hang a client when the login script runs.
I didnt had any questions about :
- SNA senders.
- Macintosh, OS/2 clients.
- Hardware/Software requirements (just know that NTFS is needed to install the site
server).
- Backup senders.
- Process of installing a secondary site.
Hope this helps ! Good luck !
Yvan.