I sat the DCA exam today, and it was PAINFULLY slow. I only made it through 22 tasks.
This is the first time I sat for this exam, and I am a little frustrated because there was nothing on the exam that I didn't know how to complete. When I was down to the < 1 minute mark, I went ahead and scanned ahead at the remaining tasks, and there was nothing that I would have had difficulty performing properly. The only reason I ran out of time was because of the lab performance. I was literally praying for the next task to be command-line capable so that I didn't have to wait for the screen refresh. It took almost 45 seconds at one point (i timed it) for the screen to properly redraw in an RDP window.
I'm just frustrated because I dropped $400 on the exam, and I might have just failed it simply because of the performance issues and not because of a lack of preparation on my part.
-Paul