My experience on MCSE exams

I am half IT worker, why half? It’s because my job is about network maintenance, web site maintenance, web site maintenance, photographing, and so on. After half an year’s hard work( about 2 years working experience), I finished reading a foot high textbooks and coaching materials(the whole weight of them is more than 10 kilos from 7000 to 8000 pages), and now I’m about to get 0MCP+MCDBA+MCSA+MCSE.

Now let me talk about my exam sequences. The sequence that I arranged is: 70-215,70-210, 70-216,70-217. Because most of the questions in these exams are about windows network, I suggest that candidates take exams according to this sequence continually and the interval between each exam should be less than one month so that it will be easy for you to consolidate and strengthen the content you’ve got. When you prepare for 70-217, its content is half similar to that of 70-216.

The first exam is for candidates to practice and acquaint themselves with the Test Environment. Besides this, a Positive Mental Attitude can be developed in this exam and it influences on the candidates’ spirit in the following exams, therefore, you have to pass it in the first time. 70-219 is an integrated subject. Therefore you have to take it after you have finished reading all the textbooks and materials. After you finish the exams for MCSE,If you want to go for the work of database development or maintenance, you can take the exams of 70-210, 70-216,70-217,70-218,70-228,70-229,70-219  and get MCP,MCSA,MCDBA which is more useful than MCSE in database development and maintenance.

If you work on a large-scale distributed network, mere MCSE is not enough, for windows acts as client in such network. But when engaging in the work of the small and medium-sized database applications, SQL Server is the first choice. If you get MCDBA, you can get a good job such as job on the maintenance of management software. Please notice that: you’d better take exam 70-216 after you’ve studied for 70-210 &70-215 and made good preparations. Otherwise, you’re bound to fail unless you’re the specialist in using Microsoft products. Course 70-216 focuses in testing operating and managing the network basic construction of Windows 2000. The content it tests is more difficult than that of 70-210&70-215.

If you have passed the exam 70-210&70-215, you may have accumulated the practical experience in operating Windows 2000. But of course, most of people still have to focus on doing much studying and laboratory work so that you can improve yourself. The test about knowledge of network infrastructure includes a sharpened understanding of the network sever of windows 2000 and its operating principle: DHCP, WINS, DNS, IPSEC, CA and PRAS, all of them are the core content that run through the whole examination.

Meanwhile, you have to get some knowledge about the operation of sub-network. You have to read some materials on configuration of network protocol security and Authentication server. If you have mastered the content of server, you will understand the details of the operating system of windows 2000 and the basic knowledge of network server of windows 2000.

As for most of candidates, this subject 70-216 is the most difficult part in the way of getting MCSE, MCDBAM, MCSA. Therefore, you have to be more careful. The textbook that I use is MOC, and I feel that the wisdom of MOC is that it teaches a man to fish while not giving him a fish. If you want to pass exam 70-216, it’s far from enough to read only the textbooks, you still have to use its Practice Tests and Training Kit for reference.