Subj : Windows 2000 MCSE Upgrade Exam
To   : Steve Quarrella
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Mon Apr 09 2001 08:02 am

Steve wrote to Lawrence at 13:26 08 Apr:

 SQ> Let me know how things go.  I'm gearing up to sit down and work
 SQ> with 2000 myself, although my resources here at home are rather
 SQ> limited, and I may take the Exchange 5.5 exam with VUE before the
 SQ> summer's out.  I don't like spending the money on an exam that's
 SQ> probably going to die soon, but it could help me with job hunting.

I suspect there will be a fair number of NT4/Exchange5.5 sites for the near 
future. If nothing else, the MCP/Exchange5.5 could help in landing some 
contract/consulting work that nobody else will be available for or interested 
in.

 SQ> So, I asked if they did what was "the routine" for a restore, and 
 SQ> which was documented in their manual:  Did they restore just the 
 SQ> bindery first, and then restore everything else, excluding the 
 SQ> bindery, on the second pass?  I heard a distinct click -- one of 
 SQ> my CNE friends had bailed -- and the other guy asked "Uh...what's 
 SQ> a bindery?"

Priceless! :-)

 SQ> Believe me, you already have made more ground on this exam than you
 SQ> think. :-) 

Thankyou for the encouragement..! Perhaps I'll take up this quill again also.

 SQ> Man, is it annoying to not have working machines around for 
 SQ> testing and observation.

I'm not really doing much better. My current NT4/Exchange5.0 box runs on a P166 
w/64MB RAM.. it serves our purpose for household email, but not much more than 
that. I moved our desktop environments off of my PII/400 NT Workstation to a 
Compaq Presario P200 w/90MB RAM - it's a bit slow, but 95% of our access on 
this system is Email/Web Browsing.

That leaves me a single PII machine to explore Windows 2000.

Though.. here's something to consider. I read the other day that training 
materials used for job advancement that are not provided by the employer are 
considered to be tax deductable. I'm not sure how successful one might be in 
trying to write off a complete PIII/800 (or better) to justify self-study of 
Windows 2k for the "advancement of my current employer".. but it's something to 
consider!


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