{"id":620,"date":"2010-05-07T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=620"},"modified":"2010-07-02T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:28:42","slug":"mcitpea-%e2%80%93-took-the-microsoft-070-643-windows-server-2008-applications-infrastructure-configuring-exam-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"MCITP:EA \u2013 Took the Microsoft 070-643 Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuring exam today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t pass.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had such issues with any other exams before.\u00a0 These Microsoft tests are tough!\u00a0 Studying the official Microsoft Press books, and taking practice tests from the official Microsoft recommended practice test vendors is apparently not enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/MCTS-Exam-70-643-Applications-Infrastructure\/dp\/0735625115\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1278095112&amp;sr=8-1\">I read the book for this exam<\/a> multiple times.\u00a0 I painstakingly did all the labs.\u00a0 This book does not cover test topics to the same depth and detail as you see them in the test.<\/p>\n<p>I took the practice tests over and over again until I had all the questions memorized and repeatedly got perfect scores on them.\u00a0 The actual test is unfortunately not a whole lot like the practice exams.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, Microsoft has their <a href=\"https:\/\/transcender.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/16\/microsoft-second-shot-and-cisco-exams-both-expiring-soon\/\">Second Shot program<\/a> going right now, so retakes are free.\u00a0 The program expires at the end of June 2010, so I will have to do the retakes soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t pass.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had such issues with any other exams before.\u00a0 These Microsoft tests are tough!\u00a0 Studying the official Microsoft Press books, and taking practice tests from the official Microsoft recommended practice test vendors is apparently not enough.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}