Subj : Windows 2000 MCSE Upgrade Exam To : Lawrence Garvin From : Steve Quarrella Date : Wed Apr 04 2001 06:20 am SQ>> VUE. I have nothing but good things to say about their SQ>> service and their centers. They've always been very SQ>> accommodating. lg> Thanks for the tip.. and the recommendation. I feel a bit like the ghost in Hamlet, encouraging you to heed what I say. lg> Go figger. My previous employer sent me to a week long lg> Character Programming class so that I would have the skills lg> to write query/report code in our database environment... and lg> then never gave me a task assignment involving that skill. As you're aware, plans come and go. When I was originally interviewed, there were questions about my background with Swedish. I don't have any, but the idea at the time was to host the company's European operations in Sweden, and the language skills I mentioned came into play there. By the time any hosting was done, it was in Belgium... SQ>> Did you expect him to take them? lg> Well.. I did.. but I must admit I may have been deficient in lg> expressing my expectations, though we had several I always encourage the junior engineers under me to at least go out and get a piece of paper to go with their background, if only to make themselves look better on paper. Not being a fan of the MCSE Mill, though, I want to be certain that they can do the talk AND the walk. lg> That one was way up on the top of my list also, but I was lg> having trouble getting near a functional Exchange lg> installation to 'play'... whereas IIS4 was ubiquitous on You'd be surprised. I've done some studying for the exam, and there isn't a whole lot required regarding having the thing to be WORKING, although I think I have more personal Exchange experience than you do, having taken care of an Exchange organization and rolled out a few servers of my own. lg> every NT Server. I'm running IIS4 and Exchange 5.0 at home lg> and I'm about to do the upgrade from Exchange 5.0 to Exchange lg> 5.5 -- if I could get a handle on the expected survival of lg> the Exchange 5.5 certification, I might consider still taking Check out www.cramsession.com. This is an excellent site for preparation, where you can bounce ideas off of people who have been through the exam. I'm not into the brain dump thing, but if there's a weird concept being tested, I'd like to know about it. In my case, well, I still communicate with my Exchange instructor, so if I've got questions, I just e-mail him. SQ>> I think something the tests should be able to test, but SQ>> can't, is resourcefulness. lg> Good point. One of the most useful things I learned from my lg> military service was the ability to "find the answer", as lg> opposed to "memorize the answer". I've continued to employ I think I'll steal that terminology from you, if you don't mind. It's a good extension. :-D lg> It'll be interesting to see how that all washes out in the lg> Win2K installations. From what I've studied so far, DNS is a lg> very critical skillset in setting up a functioning AD system. Doesn't WINS go away in a full AD scenario? lg> For those interested.. the O'Reilly & Associates book "DNS lg> and BIND" is the premier volume on describing everything one I have two copies. Second edition is two feet from me, third edition was packed up by the movers and is lost in a stray box somewhere in this house (which prompted the purchase of the second-hand second edition :). I'm not a DNS guru, but that book has clarified so much for me... --- * Origin: Il Vaticano * Argyle, TX (1:393/9005.13) .