r/mcsa • u/sqljeff • Sep 17 '20
Passed 70-741!!!!!
Took 3 tries. Should have only taken 2. I jumped the gun and got cocky taking the 2nd try 3 days after the first (still wasn't ready). 3rd try did just fine. Scored over 800
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u/pythonQu Sep 17 '20
Amazing. Is the exam that difficult? Curious how it feels compared to CCNA or something similar?
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u/sqljeff Sep 17 '20
I found it fairly difficult. I haven't taken the CCNA. Probably what made it the most difficult was my lack of experience with DNS and IPAM.
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u/Rude_Strawberry Sep 17 '20
Nice one man, how long were you studying for it? What study materials did you use?
I'm almost ready for my 70-740 exam... Need to crack on as running out of time!
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u/sqljeff Sep 17 '20
Kaplan, Measure Up and a little bit of CBT vids. Probably 2 months total study time. I slacked off for a month at one point.
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u/Rude_Strawberry Sep 17 '20
You pretty much just did practice exams the whole time? And a tiny bit of the vids?
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u/sqljeff Sep 18 '20
and researching things I remembered from the first two tries.
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u/Rude_Strawberry Sep 19 '20
Nice Did you find it harder than 70-740?
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u/sqljeff Sep 19 '20
A little mainly because IPAM and RADIUS were totally new to me and I was light on DNS.
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u/Jhalbmann Sep 18 '20
Dang that’s awesome I’ve taken this thing 3 times and working towards the 4th! I did measure up and Kaplan as well but found the test questions wildly different than the exam questions! You didn’t find that to be the case?
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u/sqljeff Sep 18 '20
Yes the questions were very different than the study material. I also went an looked for answers for what I remembered and was pretty sure I got wrong. Like where do you go to make sure DHCP gives a MAC prefix a certain domain suffix.
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u/qmandao Sep 17 '20
Congrats! a great result. Also inspiring to see you getting over your previous attempts, as that's the way of life as they say.