If you have read the recommended books (mainly Concepts and Technical 
Guide) and installed at least a single server and client (reading sometimes 
Administration Guide) it is not so hard to take the exam. It took me about 
40-50 min with registration so you have twice more time than needed.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant





Pétur Eyþórsson <Peddi AT ITN DOT IS> on 21.10.2001 18:21:56
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Subject:        Re: TSM Certification Exam

My advice to you Tom

    Bee ready for a fast exam, this thest has 70 questions and you have 
only
90 minutes to take it.
    When i took my MCSE i had 30-40 questions and i had 90 minutes for it.
So what stands up in my mind is how fast this test is.

    Learn everything there is to know about Server to Server, and Include
Exclude lists, I got alot of questions regarding it.
    Bee sure to know everything about the options you can put in the
dsmserv.opt and dsm.opt (dsm.sys UNIX).
    Read the "Getting Started with Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation
Guide" and know it well.

    You don´t need to read the "Tivoli Storage Management Reporting" book,
they won´t ask mutch about the reporting in TSM. only simple questions 
witch
can be learnd form the other books.

    If you know this you should be able to pass.



   Kvedja/Regards
   Petur Eythorsson
   Taeknimadur/Technician
   IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
   Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional
   Microsoft Certified System Engineer

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