I passed 70-292 last week with a score of 700.  I had 6 result bars, 3 at
100% and 3 at about 80%.   It took me about 50 minutes.

Honestly, I didn't prepare.  I passed all of the other 2003 exams in beta
last year and just got around to taking this one.  Passing this one test
made me MCSE Security and MCSA Security for 2003 Server.  (I work full time
as a 2003 Systems Administrator so I spend 60/hours a week actually using
this stuff.)  I'm kind of glad I didn't look here before I went!  <grin>

As far as the questions went, the large majority of them weren't very hard.
There were some others that required what I would consider some fairly
obscure knowledge.  As always with these, a broad background to eliminate
the obviously wrong answers is important.   There was one question I
probably spent 5 minutes on, marked, and looked over a couple more before
making a best guess and moving on.  On that question I didn't see a correct
answer, and still have no idea. I assume it's one I missed.  It might have
been something simple I just didn't get.

The test required some book knowledge and some hands-on too; not just with
2003 Server, but with related technologies like SUS and MBSA as well.   I do
remember a few questions that I don't think would easily fit under any of
the categories on the preparation guide.   If you work in a shop that uses
third party tools like Citrix and Veritas Backup, uses third party patch
management, recovery and security tools, etc  you should spend some time
becoming familiar with the 'built-in' versions of these tools. Definitely
know DNS, and the specific capabilites of Windows 2003 DNS including
directory integration and application partitions.  The test is very diverse,
and covers some things most admins don't do often like Automated system
recovery.

I thought I'd post so others know the test is difficult, but it can be
passed.  I'm definitely a little disapointed in my score, even if the
psychometricians say all passes are statistically pretty much the same.

Hope this helps,

Brian