Latest news on 70-431 simulation questions

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Rob Farley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:35:22 GMT

It won't be discontinued any time soon... I haven't heard anything about them disappearing, and they tend to give a lot of warning.

Rob

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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:01:04 GMT

Hi Rob, when will MS discontinue these exams for SQL SERVR 2005 (70-431, 70-441, 70-442)? - I am asking seeing that 2008 has already been out for a few months now and I want to do these 3 before the end of 2009. Thnks in advance.

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Rob Farley — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:56:42 GMT

Linda,

Sorry to hear that. My recommendation is to look around the dialog boxes that are available to you, looking for something that sounds like the option that you would have set using your scripts.

And then leave the question and don't come back. It's never worth second-guessing yourself.

Also, try asking Microsoft when they will be switching to Virtual Lab exams for SQL Server. I've posted about 70-113 on this blog before, and I really want SQL to move this way too.

Rob

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Linda Leslie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:10:58 GMT

I just took the exam and have been a DBA for 7 years... I just don't use the gui much and have other tools I use since SSMS isn't always the best at getting the info I need... passed the Q&A (45 questions) but failed the simulation (12) questions.... not a happy camper.

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Rob Farley — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:07:36 GMT

Roy,

I'm not sure about practice tests. I do know that if you're a regular user of SQL 2005 (and know a bit about what's 'under the hood', then you should be just fine).

Rob

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Roy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:32:45 GMT

I just took the exam, failed. I prepared with uCertify, not help... can someone tell me which practice test matirial is better?

Roy

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John Sterrett — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:33:40 GMT

I just passed the exam in the past few weeks and I found the simulations to be very easy. If you use the SQL 2005 tools you will be fine.

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Rob Farley — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:57:01 GMT

Shweta,

Sorry for editing your comment - you had written a bit too much about one of the questions.

To answer you though (carefully) - if you need to move to another part of Management Studio (or whatever you have been presented with), you should be able to just close the dialog you're in, and move to somewhere else. If you can't, then you should be able to answer the question sufficiently without doing that.

The simulations aren't perfect. The new emulations exams (like 640) should help with this a lot.

Rob

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Shweta — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:43:02 GMT

This question is for those who have taken 70-431 exam already. In simulation section, on 1 question I was presented with *********sorry - I've removed part of this question. Rob************** How did you guys manage to switch ************?

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anili — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:45:19 GMT

well, after going through numerous blogs and websites ...now i have a bit of understanding on how people felt about this exam. Its ..truely very helping work. I appreciate all the guys. I am about to take the exam in 13days time...I am not a sql guy..first time I took this book a week ago..did lot of reading, simulation questions seems to be tricky.. as lot many of you said we need to use the product..i am going to do that for the rest of the 13days and nights..and give exam..lets see..I will post on the result of my exam

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Rob Farley — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:03:53 GMT

If you have prepared using TestKing and ActualTest, then you will probably fail this exam. You should use the product for a few months in real situations.

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Ali Shah — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:49:11 GMT

I have prepared my self for 70-431 from test king and Actual test and I have also do the exercises from Pass4sure simulations. is this enough or any change is comming in this exam. Please advice...

Regards,

Ali Shah.

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Rob Farley — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:28:39 GMT

To give the typical SQL answer, "It depends".

You're probably close to being a qualified candidate, but I can't be sure. Good luck either way. Make sure you use the free resit offer that's currently available.

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Chaitra — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:00:56 GMT

I have studied the SQL SERVER 2005 Implementation and Maintanance well and have solved all the exercises. I have taken couple of exams as well. Will this help me pass the exam? I am trying to come up with simulations in my head. For instance dropping snaphots, creating schedules, using sql profiler.Do you think this will be enough? I have worked with SQL Server 2000 3 years ago but had to quite my job because of my little kids. Now I want to go back to work and want this certification so that I have a better stand.

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sodabeh — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:36:23 GMT

i need simulation question,i had exam last week and i failed,where can i found these question?

i had no idea about simulation question.

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Jeff — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:23:22 GMT

Well I took 431 earlier this week, and I must say after reading numerous blogs and write-ups I was expecting a way-nasty exam.

My take though was;

1. The 35 multiple choice questions were straightforward. Mine were almost entirely about principles, not syntax, so I didn't have to remember precise rote statements - just understand the concept. Even if you don't though, I found that always 1 or 2 answers were obviously wrong, and 1 or 2 looked dubious so simple elimination would probably work.

2. The 12 simulations I had were quite simple. I confess I had no idea what I needed to do about 1 of them, but the other 11 were simple enough tasks such as ***parts of this comment deleted***, etc. I did a LOT of random clicking on the first simulation to get a feel for the way it works, and that doesn't seem to have penalised me in my score (11/12 on the graph, assuming they're equally weighted)

So in summary, if you've used the product and understand the principles tested, the simulations are not hard.

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Rob Farley — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:02:21 GMT

Ah, then you should've done the courses with me. I have students who have taken 2780 and then passed 70-431.

I'm not sure you can pass this exam with study alone - that's not what this exam is designed to test.

Can you get a copy of SQL Server Developer Edition? It doesn't have licences for go-live, but you can use it for development (and therefore learning).

Rob

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Pete — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:15:06 GMT

I recently took courses 2779 and 2780 and I have a very good knowledge of MSAccess. The training center where I took the courses has mentioned nothing to me about simulations or what this test entails etc. They told me to play around with the product at their lab. Spending time playing with a product in a lab doesn't seem like much of a prep for this test. Especially after reading the blogs on this site. I feel like I have been misled a little into thinking that I can pass this test with study alone. I also don't have the luxury of working with the product since I don't have access to it at home and I'm unemployed. I'm going to give it a shot but I'm not very optimistic. Any thoughts?

Regards,

Pete

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Rob Farley — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:07:00 GMT

Sorry no, that would be cheating. Just use the product for a while and you should be fine.

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ChanChan — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:02:35 GMT

hello I'll take 70-431 exam at the end of this month..but I want simulations..can u give me??? thanks my mail is winter.princess@gmail.com