Just a couple notes on my experience in the Microsoft 70-290 Test (Windows Server 2003 Environment). Here''s things that you really need to know, based on the questions I received:

• Permissions and how to set them up. Especially important is calculating the overall effective permissions both in NTFS and on network shares. Understand how the various Allow and Deny permissions work, how they apply to users and groups, and the net effect of using various permissions on shared folders and NTFS files/folders.
• Backup types and how they work. You need to know the difference between the various types of backups (Normal, Copy, Incremental, Differential, etc.)
• Try to remember the command-line utilities they mention in the books. You may get a list of various command-line options to accomplish a task, and you''ll need to know which ones perform the right task, and even whether or not such a command even exists!