I have 5 Microsoft certification exams under my belt (MCSA 2000). I passed them all on the first try. Of course I studied diligently for them all, but I managed to score well on all of them without too much sweat and tears.
This morning, I achieved failure on my 6th certification attempt. The test was 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure. I put in about 10 hours of total study time over a period of about a week, about 75% of the amount of time I put in on my previous tests. The good news is that it was easy to tell where I was failing. I had two kinds of questions: the ones I was sure how to answer and the ones that produced confusing, paranoia and a general sense of self-loathing. I should have studied more. Oh well, it’s just $125 down the drain. I will reschedule the test and take it again early next week. Hopefully World of Warcraft will go down so I can study more diligently. 
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