So there I was, talking with a group of students about what they used to help pass the 70-236, Configuring Exchange Server 2007. Given that this was a largish group of students and that there was a lot of senior management “interest” in the performance of this group of students, I fully expected to see several braindumps – and yet, there weren’t any in evidence.
I was surprised at this on several accounts. As I had said earlier, there was much interest from senior management in how well these students did on their tests (most of them passed on their first attempt, with the remaining passing on their second attempt). In response to this, I expected there to be “study guides” about – and there weren’t. The students were very conscientious in preparing for this test. They worked in excess of twelve hours a day going through various legitimate test preparation software packages and reviewing course material. They also had several review sessions with different instructors to help prepare them for the test. They also quizzed each other as well from several different sources.
I mention all these different preparation measures to show that there is not one way that has to be used (or that can be used) to prepare for a test as evidenced with this group. Each student found what worked for them – for some it was pure self-study, for others it was reading and reviewing material while for a select few it was a combination of all the methods. In the end it did not matter what was use – only the outcome. For most of the group, it was a “good” day, others had a “good day” a week later, but most of them ended up passing with none of them using any “alternate study guides.”
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