Progress Report 4/30/9

Alright, time for a quick progress report on my 70-293.

1) I worked ahead a little, did about 45 minutes of videos
2)Read chapter 1 in “Creating the secured Managed Desktop” (ISBN 987-0-470-27764-5)
3) Install a 2008, Vista and XP client
4) Created a 2008 server doman
5) Install Windows deployment
6) Set up boot images
7) published Vista
Made a XP image, and deployed it
9) Did a lot of reading on multicast transmissions
10) Messed with multicast and unicast NLB clustering
11) read up on best practices for NLB and Exchange front end servers
12) Read up on wSUS best practices
13) Hammer through about 20 questions off of google

So, decent progress I guess.

Serious about 70-293, I mean it!

So I am home sick the last couple of days.

Really cracking down on the 70-293! I mean it. To start it off I watched all the videos for the 70-293 at www.vtc.com all while on my WII doing the step game with WII fit.

To back that up I read from front to back twice, the Sybex book on the subject while on BART. As far as hands on time, I have a problem. I have never in the real world deployed a real world network. I have never even added a server into a production network.

Being at the service desk level, I just maintain. Restore files, restart services and if I am lucky rebuild a RAID array here and there. So to substitute I did a few things over the last few months.

Bought a quad core computer and installed VMware workstation and installed the trial versions of Windows. Worked through ever lab in the Sybex book a couple times, messed them up and followed along with vtc.com as well. I am fast approached 50 hours of lab time.

I think I’ve done well, I have probably put more time in with certificate authorities, RRAS, wSUS etc etc than most. So feeling really comfortable with it all. I also spend a lot of time reading technet and MDSN articles. Anytime I have trouble the folks at www.techexams.net have been really good.

Wana know more?

70-293 exam
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/70-293.mspx

MCSE
http://www.microsoft.com/LEARNING/MCP/MCSE/default.mspx

VTC.com
http://www.vtc.com/modules/content/contact.php

Techexams.net
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