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I touched on the new adaptive questions for some Microsoft exams in my last few articles. By the looks of it, Microsoft Education Services is in the process of making all of its exams adaptive. Some of the most popular exams have now gone adaptive:

70-087: Internet Information Server 4.0. This exam includes about 10 adaptive questions, which I thought were easy. Sometimes I favour the adaptive questions over the multiple choice ones because I think they're a little easier to answer...if you've used the programs.

70-058: Networking Essentials. This exam has recently gone adaptive, I've been told. I haven't taken the new one, so I can't say how it is.

70-073: Windows NT Workstation 4.0. This one is a popular core exam and it recently went adaptive. Again, I haven't taken the new one, but if you've played with Windows NT, then I don't see any problems passing the adaptive questions.

70-098: Windows 98. This exam was released last month. If you're familiar with Windows 95, then you should do fine with the adaptive questions for the Windows 98 exam.

If you're planning to take any exams in 1999, then expect a few adaptive questions on them. For example, SMS 2.0, according to Microsoft will have adaptive questions on it. It'd be interesting to see if SQL Server 7.0 will include adaptive questions on it. If yes, it's going to be very hard to pass the exam. I know a few people who've failed the SQL Server 6.5 exam a few times before they passed.

As for Windows NT in general: Windows NT 5.0-- now renamed Windows 2000-- the product is in Beta 2.0 and it does not include all the function Microsoft has promised. Keep in mind that the product was supposed to be released already. It looks like Microsoft is going to be 1.5 years late. According to a lot of news on the Internet, Windows 2000 won't be released until the year 2000. Microsoft has 'never' released an operating system on time. It's part of their tradition.;)

My personal guess, going with the past, is that Windows 2000, won't be released until... its namesake: Sometime in the year 2000. The product is supposed to contain 35-40 million lines of code, which even surpasses that of some mainframe operating systems. But don't take my word for it.

When Windows 2000 is released, it will be a family of products rather than Workstation and Server products. There will be 4 main products in the family:

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