Kaplan IT Training Blog

The secret path to knowledge (and a better exam experience)

When you click the “About This Exam” button in the Transcender test engine, you get a little boilerplate popup window. I think we’ve all grown blind spots to “About this…” buttons (they just say you’re using software version 6.07.2x or that your shareware license expired 111,035 days ago, you cheapskate) so I’ll reproduce it here click-free:

To use this practice test effectively, you must read and understand the explanations for all the practice test questions. Simply answering the practice test questions and/or memorizing the questions and answers does not give you the full benefit of the product.

In other words, if you bought a Transcender practice test and you’re going through simply answering the questions, you’re having an exam experience like this:

You are the network administrator of a company that wants to destroy
the world for some unknown reason. All servers run Windows Server
2008 and all client computers use Windows Vista. You have changed the
IP address range on the DHCP server in a branch office in order to
advance your company’s evil agenda. You need to change the reverse
lookup zone on the branch DNS server role to reflect the IP address
change and enable secure dynamic updates. What should you do?

A. Install Remote Server Administration Tools on a Vista workstation
B. Some wrong answer Netsh blah blah blah
C. Some wrong answer ServerCMD blah blah
D. Some command line command blah blah

Answer: A

… which is well and good if you get a question on RSAT, but Keep reading…