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• 70-113, the Virtual Lab exam, gives Microsoft Certification new hope

  We all know what's wrong with Microsoft certifications. The multiple-choice format means that people can cheat too easily, and over the years, the questions have often felt too specific, asking the kinds of questions that proper IT professionals just Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:51 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, training, certification

• Time to try some exams? Second shot is back

  I always tell people to do exams during Second Shot season. Reason being - it makes the first one a practice. Don't bother studying, don't bother stressing, just go and see how you do. Then you can sit it a second time for real. Feel like giving Read More... Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 7:36 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: certification

• How Jim McLeod passed 70-444

  Jim McLeod is a DBA, and a good friend of mine. And today, he is due congratulations, because he passed the exam 70-444 - Optimizing and Maintaining a DB Admin Solution in SQL 2005 . Now he only needs to do the Infrastructure Design exam (70-443) to become Read More... Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:44 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: certification

• The best way to pass a Microsoft certification exam

  For a limited time only, Microsoft are giving you the chance to have a second shot at any IT professional, developer or Microsoft Dynamics exam. Brilliant! The way this works (and the way I encourage all my students to do this) is that if you register Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:30 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: training, certification

• Latest news on 70-431 simulation questions

  I got some news this week about the core SQL Server 2005 exam. A bit of an update from someone who has recently tried 70-431. He sent it to me having read my previous post on the matter . "I took the exam last week and got all the M/C questions right, Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:58 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, certification

• Only 71 people have MCITP:BI

  Mitch Wheat sent me this. According to http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx , there are only 71 people in the world (well, at the end of June) who have achieved MCITP:BI. This means passing the two exams 70-445 and 70-446. You could be Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:31 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, certification, professional development

• Pearson Vue no longer offering Microsoft exams

  You can only book to do Microsoft certification exams through Pearson Vue until the end of August. From then on, you have to choose Prometric . More information can be read at Vue's website: http://vue.com/ms/testtakerfaq.pdf Personally, I find this Read More... Posted Friday, July 20, 2007 3:38 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: training, certification, professional development

• Certification questions from the community

  On a trip to Redmond earlier this year (when I was one of 6 people deciding on content for the 70-445 and 70-446 exams), I had the chance to meet Howard Dierking . Howard is the Product Planner for Developer and Database Certifications. It was great to Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:56 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: certification

• 70-431 exam tips, and congrats to Jos Verbaken - MCTS

  Jos Verbaken was a student of mine a few weeks ago. He lives in Ballarat, and is known around the Melbourne SQL Server User Group circles. He did the 5-day course 2780 - Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database . During the course, I encouraged Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:08 PM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: sql, australia, certification, community, professional development

• Heads up on 2008 certification exam retirements

  ...as announced in our March Live Meeting on server certifications , Microsoft Learning will be retiring a set of exams in one year (on March 30, 2008). The retirement list will be posted on microsoft.com later this month; in the meantime here is the Read More... Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:00 AM from MSDN Blogs | (Comments Off) Filed under: certification

• BI Certified

  Like Darren Gosbell , I took the beta exams for the two new SQL2005 Business Intelligence exams. Like Darren, following the beta period I was invited to help with the exam development process, and now that the results have come out, like Darren, I have Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:45 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: certification

• Two new certifications

  Seems I have two new Microsoft Technology Specialist certifications. MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration and MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration . The links are to the exams I passed, not the certifications Read More... Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 10:31 AM from Rob Farley | (Comments Off) Filed under: certification