16.06.2003
First Microsoft Exam booked
Well, I got off my fat arse today and booked 217 (AD Implementation and Management) for Thursday at 09:30. The way things are at work, the sooner I get myself m$ certifed the better.
Reading through the various study guides that I have for that exam, it is odd how quickly doing something sinks in. Two years, the concept of “preferred bridgehead servers”, “GPO inheritance follow LSDOU” etc would have been “say what?”, whereas now it is “yeah, of course”. Fun stuff nowadays is scripting site creation using ADSI edit to show what sort of containers and objects you need to create.
That is just an example of how doing something for an extended length of time changes your idea of how much information is too much information. Being able to understand how USNs work, how to look at a replmon output or read a netdiag /fix /v entry and make sense of it changes your perspective on things.
Mind you, another friend of mine from work is doing the Clustering exam for Win2k the day after and that stuff is freaking scary. The more I learn about clustering in Win2k, the worse it gets. I would suggest you have all your clusters on UPS and treat them very nicely. Applying hotfixes and service packs had better be a manual process and praying to your designated $deity$ is a good idea….