Subj : Windows 2000 MCSE Upgrade Exam To : Steve Quarrella From : Lawrence Garvin Date : Fri Apr 06 2001 02:52 am Steve wrote to Lawrence at 13:20 04 Apr: lg> Thanks for the tip.. and the recommendation. SQ> I feel a bit like the ghost in Hamlet, encouraging you to heed what SQ> I say. Hey.. the only other alternative that was available to me already screwed me over... there's not much risk. :-) SQ> I always encourage the junior engineers under me to at least go out SQ> and get a piece of paper to go with their background, if only to SQ> make themselves look better on paper. Absolutely. One of the challenges I'm having to overcome in my job search right now is not having 'documentation' (read: Certification) in the myriad of job skills I've actually performed at sometime in the past 10 years. SQ> Not being a fan of the MCSE Mill, though, I want to be certain SQ> that they can do the talk AND the walk. For sure... nothin' turms me off faster than an applicant with an MCP or MCSE looking for an advanced position and their only job experience is at the local car wash. SQ> You'd be surprised. I've done some studying for the exam, and SQ> there isn't a whole lot required regarding having the thing to be SQ> WORKING, Okay... well I'm about to do my 5.0 -> 5.5 upgrade this weekend.. so we'll see how I do. :-) SQ> although I think I have more personal Exchange experience than you SQ> do, having taken care of an Exchange organization and rolled out a SQ> few servers of my own. No doubt about that. My only real experience outside of my personal 5.0 server was from 4/98 - 10/99, and in that time I think I only installed one, the rest were maintenance environments. SQ> Check out www.cramsession.com. This is an excellent site for SQ> preparation, where you can bounce ideas off of people who have been SQ> through the exam. Thanks! lg> One of the most useful things I learned from my military service lg> was the ability to "find the answer", as opposed to "memorize the lg> answer". SQ> I think I'll steal that terminology from you, if you don't mind. SQ> It's a good extension. :-D Be my guest! 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. SQ> Doesn't WINS go away in a full AD scenario? I believe, from what I've studied in 70-222, that in a pure TCP/IP implementation with a functional DNS environment, WINS becomes wholly redundant. However, in an environment that may continue to use NetBIOS for networking, WINS is still needed. In fact, it says that WINS is "enhanced" in Windows 2000. --- * Origin: lawrence@fido.eforest.net | The Enchanted Forest (1:106/6018) .