I thought the sims were actually pretty decent… had to do some clicking around, since I’ve never used 2005 professionally. Just for the last month or so on the evaluation version and reading a MCITP book.
Something that I thought was helpful was that some areas were “unavailable in sim” mode, so I knew not to check there;)

1. Users report that insert statements against the view named
Production.vExpensiveExpiredProduct do not succeed. You confirm that the insert
statements that are being used are valid.
The only table that the view uses is named Production.ExpiredProduct. The table
has the following definition:
CREATE TABLE Production.ExpiredProduct {
ExpiredProductIDINT IDENTITY CONSTRAINT PK_EXPIREProduct
PRIMARY KEY
Name NVARCHAR(50) NOT NULL
ListPrice MONEY NULL
}
You need to ensure that insert statements can be complete successfully. You need to
apply the fewest possible changes, and you must use SQL Server Management
Studio (SSMS).

2. A query against the Sales.SalesOrderDetail table is performing poorly. You must
create an index that will cause the cost of the query to be as low as possible. You
must minimize the space that is used by the index. The index must contain as few
columns as possible.
There is an existing clustered index on the table. This index must not be dropped.
Because the table is on a production server, it is not possible to create different
indexes and test their performance.
You need to create the required indexes by using the New Index dialog box.

3. There is an uncommitted transaction in the TestKing database. Yóu must find the
process that is associated with this transaction, and you must kill that process. You must not kill any other processes.
You need to kill the process by using the Activity Monitor dialog how within SQL
Server Management Studio (SSMS).

4. You need to install a new SQL Server 2005 instance on a newly installed Windows
Server 20003 server named TestKing2. This new instance must have the same
settings as the existing SQL Server 2005 instance on a server named TestKing1.
The only two services that need to be installed are the SQL Server service and the
SQL Server agent service.
The default installation folder should be used for the new SLQ Server instance on
TestKing2. You will be able to refer to TestKing1 to view the settings to use.
You need to complete the installation wizard on TestKing2.

Shelly – try to just do the task and get out, and then stay out (I don’t think it counts against you if you go back in, but in my opinion, it’s never a good idea to revisit questions). I don’t think you’ll get penalised for trying to go out of scope. No limit on clicks.

But everything I’ve written here is subject to change…