MCSE Exam Self-Study Kit

[Dick Burger]

Hi all,

I've decided to take the plunge and buy the self-study kit to
prepare for the NT 3.5 Workstation Exam.

I've talked to several people, and this training course presents
the information that Microsoft considers important in a relatively
condensed format. Word is that it is the most efficient way to
prepare for the exam.

I have a truckload of NT books, the resource guide, and a TECHNET
subscription, but I find these sources fairly weak at providing the specialized,
applied information that Microsoft is testing. I have some experience using
NT, but still it looks like I would grow old hunting and gathering all the
info that MS requires.

"Supporting Microsoft Windows NT: Self Study Training Kit", course #309,
costs $500. What a screw job. But I hope it will save a lot of time.

I am going to use it for one week, will not write in it, and then
would like to sell it. Any takers? I imagine you can also resell the kit
when you are done with it.

I am going to buy the Advanced Server self-study kit next, and similarily
will wish to unload it. That training kit, course #317, also costs $500.
Ridiculous, but they got ya.

Dick Burger
bur...@sphinx.ece.wisc.edu

[Dick Burger]

Sorry, slight correction:

Microsoft now covers both the NT 3.5 Workstation and 3.5 Server version in their
updated Self-Study kit. The new part number for the Self-Study kit is #454.

The kit numbers I mentioned before were for NT 3.1 exam preparation.

So, I should be done with kit #454, which prepares you for NT 3.5 exams
7042 and 7043, in two weeks. I won't write in it. The kit cost me $500.
Please email me if you are interested in purchasing it.

Dick Burger
bur...@sphinx.ece.wisc.edu

[Charles Farley]

In article <3kkg7h$o...@news.doit.wisc.edu>, bur...@sphinx.ece.wisc.edu says...

That's unusual. My NT 3.5 Server+Workstation Self-Study kit I just received
has a sticker on it that says it is on sale for a mere $150, and $200 after
June 30, 1995. Order #454-5985ACP.

--
far...@access.digex.net
Nobody here but us chickens!

[Mike Kellstrand]

far...@access.digex.net (Charles Farley) wrote:

> That's unusual. My NT 3.5 Server+Workstation Self-Study kit I just received
> has a sticker on it that says it is on sale for a mere $150, and $200 after
> June 30, 1995. Order #454-5985ACP.
>
> --
> far...@access.digex.net
> Nobody here but us chickens!

Where are good places to order the self-study guides?
Microsoft told me to go through a local solution provider,
but I have had no luck with these people.

Where can I order these?

Thanks, Mike (Mike_Ke...@vos.stratus.com)

[al madsen]

Wave Technologies has a certified system engineer study guide
for $295. Covers windows, nt nt server, networking, msmail,
Phone number is 1-800-828-2050. Wave is a MS solution provider.

[Dick Burger]

You are absolutely correct! I am the person who posted this originally. On
Monday of this week, I order the kit through a Solution Provider for $500.
Microsoft confirmed with me that this was the price.

Today, Wednesday, I see it in the bookstore for $150.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Microsoft has shipped it, and now I have to work this mess out with them. If they want
$500 out of me, they'll have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers. A hundred people
have emailed me with interest in buying this damn kit. Sorry to be a source of this
confusion, I was a victim of MS stupidity.

So all you people who emailed me, just get it at a bookstore. And my sympathies to
anybody else who shelled-out $500.

Dick Burger

[hkr...@rane.com]

>> You are absolutely correct! I am the person who posted this originally. On
Monday of this week, I order the kit through a Solution Provider for $500.
Microsoft confirmed with me that this was the price.

Today, Wednesday, I see it in the bookstore for $150. <<

I don't know the current status, but when I bought my $500 kit last year, it came
with a full version of NT/S, a TechNet CDROM, the tests to become certified
pre-paid, and was discounted for CNEs.

I don't know if this is still true, but if it is, it might help explain the price difference,
although you didn't mention getting any of these extras. Bummer.
I thought this program was still in effect recently, but it sounds like nobody you
talked to mentioned it, so it could be over now.

Harold

[Chico Sajovic]

In article <3kv8p2$9...@pulm1.accessone.com>, hkr...@rane.com says...

Do you have any comments on the effectiveness of the self study guides.
I am currently considering getting my MCSE, but costs for instructor led
classes are intimidating up to $10,000.