70-640 Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuring

Well I finally got to sit this exam after one test centre closing permanently and two other doing the "temporary closed" thing to me (2 in 7 days grrrr).

Passed with a score of 820 which was amazing because I wasn't very well so concentrating was very hard. 


Resources used:
I opted not to use the MS press book this time. I decided that with my experience I would try one of the Exam Cram books as they are no nonsense straight to the point type of things.
I used lots of online resources to supplement the book as well as building labs to cover the material I was not 100% familiar with (RODCs, certificate services)

Good list here:
http://www.techexams.net/forums/mcts...resources.html

R2 Stuff here:
http://www.techexams.net/forums/mcts...-material.html

I also did one of MS learning plan things and did whatever free bits were on it.

I also used the Boson Exam-Sim Max software for my exam prep, which was excellent and I will do a full review soon. I used the measure up questions from the CD that came with the Exam Cram book as well (only 50 questions though)

I was a little apprehensive about the R2 additions but as far as I can tell (this time at least) it was more a case of Vista has been renamed to Windows 7 and all servers were Server 2008 R2 and not Server 2008. I will probably see some definite R2 questions on the 70-642 as there is a lot of changes to that.