Well, the test was actually harder than I thought, I still passed with a score in the 800′s. I will say that the book that I purchased did lack a little. The book I used as my primary study resource was MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-642): Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure. Another friend of mine took this exam a few weeks ago, using a combination of this book and Trainsignal, he mentioned that the combination was great. On my next exam I am likely to be combining both trainsignal and the text book (70-640). I hope to have this one passed by mid-june. I will make a post regarding my thoughts on the video and textbook study method. This on top of virtual machines and hands on.
Archive for May, 2011
May
08
2011
70-642 Exam
Well this week ended up pretty interesting, I finished up reading the 70-642 book and will be scheduling my exam here with in the next 5-7 days. Hopefully I pass, on the review questions I have done pretty well, but have some areas where I feel I need to improve a bit.
On the next exam (70-640), I am going to change up my study method and likely order trainsignal and see how I feel with their product instead of reading the book. I love reading, but would like to give another study method a try and see how I do. I have heard great things about them and some of my colleagues speak well of their products for prepping for an exam.
May
01
2011
DJIA to fall this week?
While, I can’t say tomorrow the market is going to go down, I have some speculation that it may, from a technical trading point of view.
1 Month Chart – So basically here what we are looking at is a hammer candle. Usually it is indicative of a reversal, towards the top of a rally it suggests that we are almost at the peak.
Zoomed out chart, each candle is 1 month.
1 Week Chart – The least convincing of the three to me however, after looking towards the more recent weeks, it looks like we almost have a bullish rising three going, a better example can be found here. It also looks like we broke a bit of resistance, but aren’t home free yet.
Zoomed out chart, each candle is 1 week.
1 Day Chart – The one day chart again has the hammer, suggesting that the end to the rally is near, this also happened to be the point before a resistance point was broken.
After looking at all of this, I believe that the market may pull back a bit, we have had 8 months of gains, since the market bottomed out this has been our best streak so far. While I believe we have broken some resistance in the 1w chart, I am not convinced we are home free for another month of a gains. There are technical indicators that suggest that the market will go down, but there has been a decent amount of good news to go around. Let’s see what happens tomorrow 
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