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Three More MCSE-Windows 2003 Exams Debut This Week
Two more exams for the Core Exams: Networking Systems portion of Windows 2003 credential, as well as an upgrade exam, go live Thursday.
Microsoft will release three key exams for the MCSE for
Windows 2003 track:
- 70-293,
Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
- 70-294,
Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory
Infrastructure
- 70-296,
Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment
for an MCSE Certified on Windows 2000
Exams 70-293 and 70-294 comprise two exams that MCSE on Windows 2003 candidates
must complete for the Core Exams: Networking Systems portion of the track. (Two
more exams, 70-290 and 70-291, are the others; they were released August 14.
Click here
to read details.) Both exams are aimed at measuring the skills of MCSEs
whose job roles include the functional design of networks.
Exam 70-296 makes up one of two upgrade exams for MCSE on Windows 2003 candidates;
Exam 70-292, released August 14, is the other one. Both exams, available only
to those who have completed the MCSE on Windows 2000, are all that are required
to upgrade to the newer Windows 2003 credential.
Registration for all three exams opens up August 27 through Prometric and Vue
testing centers. According to the exam guides, candidates can expect to encounter
adaptive formats and simulation questions, but Microsoft may also include new
testing innovations, such as hot areas, drag and place and testlets (click
here to read more).
To view the requirements for the MCSE on Windows 2003, click
here.
[Read Andy Barkl's review of these exams by clicking on the following links:
70-290,
70-291,
70-293.
A review of Exam 70-294 will be available next week.]
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