Windows 98 (70-098) Exam Comments
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1/99 Well today I took my first exam. I chose Win 98 since it was the most familiar product to me. The test was non-adaptive, 59 questions, passing grade was 709. I passed with 890, Yay me! The great great majority of the test, 80% I'd say was resource sharing and networking and the two combined of course in mixed NT, 98, 95, NOVELL, DOS, and WFW networks. Hopefully that won't violate my NDA with the Microsoft police. I studied from the Sybex book, which was moderately useful for me for profiles and policies. Which was probably the second biggest part of the test I took. Just read the book once, did each chapter test and used the demo PEP tests from the Microsoft web site and the demo Transcender test. The test from the MCP web site was I think much more applicable to actual test content with at least one question being very applicable to the real test. Very applicable. The transcender demo though did give perhaps a better example of type of questions and how to think through the questions. The Sybex book was useful as an overview to introduce topics that I hadn't been exposed to, but I don't know if it would have been enough on it's own to pass the exam as the kind of minutia about other OS's that you need to know just isn't contained in there. I passed this thing because of my previous experience with Novell, Win 95/98 and Win 3.X, the book merely filled in some gaps, and just loosely filled them in at that leaving some educated guessing if you just went by the book. Anyways, I'm done that and will probably do Networking Essentials next. I picked Win 98 since I thought it would be the easiest start. I guess I was right since 890 isn't too bad for not cramming or putting much work into studying like a fiend. |