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Fred the Ferret
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 Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: Just passed OS |
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Score of 859, so I'm pretty happy at the moment.
What a bizarre experience though.. Definitely harder than Core, and far fewer
practice-exam questions turned up, maybe only seven or eight out of 100. Most
questions were on xp or win2k: and there were some on printers too! (But not
ones I felt too confident about, no "print out a test page from your HP
Printer" ;-) ).
The first five questions were really hard and I thought I was onto a pasting,
but it did lighten up a bit. But no, CompTIA, I have no idea (until I looked it
up later) what command line utility I should use to list 'Access Control
Lists.' Nor how to access Event Viewer on a remote computer :-( Maybe these and
a couple of other stinkers were beta questions?
Justice reasserted itself: after being bamboozled by OS questions on the
Hardware exam, this time I had a handful of hardware questions!! Luckily I
think I got the Q correct about what to do if the fan on a PSU fails :-)
Odder still, at least three of the questions repeated themselves. In one case,
word for word ???!
And again, the beta-testing of cuddly-telephone support questions varied from
the fairly sensible to the ridiculous:
Q.101 What is the best way to respond to a caller who has been kept waiting in
a queue for 15 minutes, and is frustrated by the time they reach you?
a. Laugh hysterically and throw the phone out of the window.
b. Take their address and promise to send a technician, but really book them a
grim-o-gram
c. Keep them talking for another fifteen minutes and then hang up mid-sentence
d. Apologise and do your job....
One that still puzzles me: what happens if you want to upgrade nt4 to win2000
and begin setup using nt4 boot disks, but with the win2000 installation disk in
the cd-drive?
Ah well, onto the N+ course....
Good Luck Patty! |
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Patty
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: Just passed OS |
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On 28 Jul 2006 16:12:58 -0000, Fred the Ferret wrote:
| Quote: | Score of 859, so I'm pretty happy at the moment.
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Good score! Congratulations! Woohoo!
| Quote: | What a bizarre experience though.. Definitely harder than Core, and far fewer
practice-exam questions turned up, maybe only seven or eight out of 100. Most
questions were on xp or win2k: and there were some on printers too! (But not
ones I felt too confident about, no "print out a test page from your HP
Printer" ;-) ).
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Too bad that most of the practice exams contain a lot of questions for 9x
still. All my Mike Meyers stuff does.
| Quote: | The first five questions were really hard and I thought I was onto a pasting,
but it did lighten up a bit. But no, CompTIA, I have no idea (until I looked it
up later) what command line utility I should use to list 'Access Control
Lists.' Nor how to access Event Viewer on a remote computer :-( Maybe these and
a couple of other stinkers were beta questions?
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Hmmm. Don't remember coming up with this in my readings. I'll have to
check further.
| Quote: | Justice reasserted itself: after being bamboozled by OS questions on the
Hardware exam, this time I had a handful of hardware questions!! Luckily I
think I got the Q correct about what to do if the fan on a PSU fails :-)
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Shut down the system and swap out the fan? What else are you going to do?
The system will probably overheat quickly and shut itself down.
| Quote: | Odder still, at least three of the questions repeated themselves. In one case,
word for word ???!
And again, the beta-testing of cuddly-telephone support questions varied from
the fairly sensible to the ridiculous:
Q.101 What is the best way to respond to a caller who has been kept waiting in
a queue for 15 minutes, and is frustrated by the time they reach you?
a. Laugh hysterically and throw the phone out of the window.
b. Take their address and promise to send a technician, but really book them a
grim-o-gram
c. Keep them talking for another fifteen minutes and then hang up mid-sentence
d. Apologise and do your job....
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I like a and b. *vbg*
| Quote: | One that still puzzles me: what happens if you want to upgrade nt4 to win2000
and begin setup using nt4 boot disks, but with the win2000 installation disk in
the cd-drive?
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Isn't that like doing a clean install with an upgrade? You can do that, if
you have the OS disk to prove you had the previous version.
| Quote: | Ah well, onto the N+ course....
Good Luck Patty!
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Thanks. I guess I'd better study harder, although my hardware test was
much easier than yours was. Perhaps my OS won't be so bad and I'll get
through it ok in a couple weeks.
Patty |
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Fred the Ferret
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: Just passed OS |
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:01:30 -0400
Patty <patty@iainttellin.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On 28 Jul 2006 16:12:58 -0000, Fred the Ferret wrote:
Score of 859, so I'm pretty happy at the moment.
Good score! Congratulations! Woohoo!
What a bizarre experience though.. Definitely harder than Core, and far fewer
practice-exam questions turned up, maybe only seven or eight out of 100. Most
questions were on xp or win2k: and there were some on printers too! (But not
ones I felt too confident about, no "print out a test page from your HP
Printer" ;-) ).
Too bad that most of the practice exams contain a lot of questions for 9x
still. All my Mike Meyers stuff does.
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Yeah, you definitely need to memorise all those XP routes to find
utilities/control panel/ admin tools etc. Interestingly, all the routes via
control panel were via the 'classic' rather than the new xp 'category'
arrangements. Don't know if that is everyone's experience though.
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Justice reasserted itself: after being bamboozled by OS questions on the
Hardware exam, this time I had a handful of hardware questions!! Luckily I
think I got the Q correct about what to do if the fan on a PSU fails :-)
Shut down the system and swap out the fan?
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Ooops: guess again Patty....
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Good Luck Patty!
Thanks. I guess I'd better study harder, although my hardware test was
much easier than yours was. Perhaps my OS won't be so bad and I'll get
through it ok in a couple weeks.
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One route you don't see on many practice exams that came up a few times: right
click 'My Computer' -> 'Manage' -> ??
Now I've said all that you'll probably get nothing but 9x questions! |
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k
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: Re: Just passed OS |
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I had alot of the same idiotic questions on my exam yesterday as well as a
lot of WINME questions. Comptia needs there heads examined if they feel this
is still relavent. Still passed with a 809 though.
"Fred the Ferret" <anon@comments.header> wrote in message
news:4WBQ7WAS38926.5090046296@twistycreek.com...
| Quote: | Score of 859, so I'm pretty happy at the moment.
What a bizarre experience though.. Definitely harder than Core, and far
fewer
practice-exam questions turned up, maybe only seven or eight out of 100.
Most
questions were on xp or win2k: and there were some on printers too! (But
not
ones I felt too confident about, no "print out a test page from your HP
Printer" ;-) ).
The first five questions were really hard and I thought I was onto a
pasting,
but it did lighten up a bit. But no, CompTIA, I have no idea (until I
looked it
up later) what command line utility I should use to list 'Access Control
Lists.' Nor how to access Event Viewer on a remote computer :-( Maybe
these and
a couple of other stinkers were beta questions?
Justice reasserted itself: after being bamboozled by OS questions on the
Hardware exam, this time I had a handful of hardware questions!! Luckily I
think I got the Q correct about what to do if the fan on a PSU fails :-)
Odder still, at least three of the questions repeated themselves. In one
case,
word for word ???!
And again, the beta-testing of cuddly-telephone support questions varied
from
the fairly sensible to the ridiculous:
Q.101 What is the best way to respond to a caller who has been kept
waiting in
a queue for 15 minutes, and is frustrated by the time they reach you?
a. Laugh hysterically and throw the phone out of the window.
b. Take their address and promise to send a technician, but really book
them a
grim-o-gram
c. Keep them talking for another fifteen minutes and then hang up
mid-sentence
d. Apologise and do your job....
One that still puzzles me: what happens if you want to upgrade nt4 to
win2000
and begin setup using nt4 boot disks, but with the win2000 installation
disk in
the cd-drive?
Ah well, onto the N+ course....
Good Luck Patty!
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Patty
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:33 am Post subject: Re: Just passed OS |
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On 28 Jul 2006 18:41:46 -0000, Fred the Ferret wrote:
| Quote: | Yeah, you definitely need to memorise all those XP routes to find
utilities/control panel/ admin tools etc. Interestingly, all the routes via
control panel were via the 'classic' rather than the new xp 'category'
arrangements. Don't know if that is everyone's experience though.
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Mike Meyers emphasized the "classic" view for Control Panel rather than the
other. In fact, he even prefers the old Windows style desktop also. Guess
I'll just stick with his videos and just skip the 9x/ME stuff on there.
| Quote: | Justice reasserted itself: after being bamboozled by OS questions on the
Hardware exam, this time I had a handful of hardware questions!! Luckily I
think I got the Q correct about what to do if the fan on a PSU fails :-)
Shut down the system and swap out the fan?
Ooops: guess again Patty....
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The correct answer is probably back up important data first!  Oh, I'm
sorry I read that wrong. I was thinking CPU fan not PSU fan. Duh, you swap
out the power supply. You don't try to fix it.
| Quote: | Good Luck Patty!
Thanks. I guess I'd better study harder, although my hardware test was
much easier than yours was. Perhaps my OS won't be so bad and I'll get
through it ok in a couple weeks.
One route you don't see on many practice exams that came up a few times: right
click 'My Computer' -> 'Manage' -> ??
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That's how I get to Computer Management all the time. I hardly ever go
through Control Panel. In fact, I right click on My Computer to get to the
System Properties as well. Shorter than going through Control Panel.
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Now I've said all that you'll probably get nothing but 9x questions!
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Yeah, that'll be just my luck. I'm thinking that my testing place must have
older stuff than you do since I had none of the experience with the beta
and touchy feely customer things that you have.
Patty
sweating for the next two weeks and not just because of the heat! |
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Dave Hardenbrook
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: Re: Just passed OS |
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k wrote:
| Quote: | I had alot of the same idiotic questions on my exam yesterday as well as a
lot of WINME questions. Comptia needs there heads examined if they feel this
is still relavent.
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I suppose it's a debatable point -- I have clients still on Win98, and
one who's on "legacy" Win98 (i.e. not even 98 SE)!
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Dave Hardenbrook
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: Re: Just passed OS |
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Patty wrote:
| Quote: | That's how I get to Computer Management all the time. I hardly ever go
through Control Panel. In fact, I right click on My Computer to get to the
System Properties as well. Shorter than going through Control Panel.
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I usually go to the Command Prompt and type "compmgmt.msc". But then,
I'm a Command-Line freak... :)
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Patty
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:58 am Post subject: Re: Just passed OS |
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:21:05 GMT, Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
| Quote: | k wrote:
I had alot of the same idiotic questions on my exam yesterday as well as a
lot of WINME questions. Comptia needs there heads examined if they feel this
is still relavent.
I suppose it's a debatable point -- I have clients still on Win98, and
one who's on "legacy" Win98 (i.e. not even 98 SE)!
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I'm still running a Win98SE system, but only because it uses a DOS (yes
folks, that's DOS) program on it. It runs best on 98SE than it does on
2000 or XP. Why do I still use it? It's an accounting program that I use
to manage my checkbook and bills and it's simple, easy to use and not so
glitzied up as other Windows programs. Oh, yes, and it's all paid for,
survived the Y2K changeover too. And, I still have checks that I can use
to print with it. When the checks are no longer available, then I'll
finally give it up.
I also use a Windows ME computer from work, because that's what came on it,
not sure if the hardware is upgradable to XP or 2000 and not sure it's
worth the cost to do so and they also use a DOS accounting program on it as
well. I plan to upgrade to a newer laptop soon to take advantage of some
more extensive accounting programs.
Patty |
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