anyone done this? i read a bit thats its rock hard? easy 4 times harder than the XP exam? Shed a light, its in 2 months time

I'd be interested to find out too, I'm sat here with the book next to me.... Not booked an exam yet, just trying to get a feeler.

I did the 70-215 for server 2000 and it was dead easy. The design exams were a bit of a git though.

I've got the books for 70-295 and 70-296 to upgrade to a 2003 mcse that I must get round to reading soon.

I compleated my MCSE 2003 back in Aug last year, and the 290 exam was quiet hard, but as long as you know DNS and DHCP really well, your be ok. Also was fairly IP heavy question, i.e. number of host required for a network, that sorta thing.

Anyhow, hope all goes well. Good luck

Rob

I am an MCT (amongst other things) :-) and am a partner in an IT training company to btw (best not stick the URL in )

The 290 for W2K3 MCSE and the 292 for the MCSA/MCSE 2k > 2k3 upgrade are quite tough with quite a high failure rate (sorry, not trying to be the harbinger of doom).

They toughened them up around Xmas 2003 and increased the pool of questions they use because of things like Testking (to name but one) which where essentially the exam questions with some subtle name changes.

The 2K3 track from Jan this year is a different kettle of fish to the old W2k and NT4 exams. The best advice I can give is FORGET what you might do in the real world and put yourself in the Microsoft box.

One of my guys passed his 290 last week and "may" have made a comment or two.

Drop me a PM if you need any help or info

Fluff'