Server 2008 Beta MCSE/MCSA Upgrade Exams Available
Looks like we're starting to see the beta exams for the new MCITP upgrades trickling out. Remember that beta exams are no cost, but substantially longer than the regular exams. They can really take it out of you!
Normally, I'd completely recommend getting in on the beta fever, but after Microsoft starting dinking around with the pass/fail nod for those who took its beta Vista exams, I'm now a lot more hesitant...
According to Lukas Beeler’s IT Blog:
The MCSE Upgrade exam covers three different MCTS titles:MCTS: Windows Server 2008 – Active Directory Configuration
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 – Network Infrastructure Configuration
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 – Application Platform ConfigurationAs such the questions in the exam were very varied, covering a wide area of topics. Most of them were well written, but i’ve found a few very confusing ones which i commented in the second part of them exam (you can note questions for comments and review).
The Beta exams have more questions than normal exams, and of course you’ll also get more time. I’ve had 88 questions and 3 hours of time.
A few things which i found worth mentioning:
- There were many questions about WDS, i think it’s the topic that was most extensively covered
- There was a strong focus on managing changes through the commandline interface, very few answers involved the GUI
- There were more IIS questions than i’ve seen in the MCSE 2003 exams together
- There were questions about Virtual Server 2005, and IPv6
- There were no simulations
- An MCSE on 2003 could probably answer 50% of the questions without having touched WS2008
According to his blog, you can get your vouchers at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/trika/archive/2007/07/17/mcsa-mcse-2003-invited-to-beta-ws2008-transition-exams.aspx
The voucher information is in the middle of the page here.
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