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Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:44 PM

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...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:30 AM

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...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:58 PM

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...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:31 PM

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...
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Friday, July 20, 2007 4:38 PM

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...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 11:56 PM

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...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:08 PM

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...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:45 AM

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...
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Monday, January 22, 2007 10:31 AM

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...
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Friday, December 01, 2006 2:35 PM

Simulation questions in 70-431

Earlier this year I was one of four people who wrote a bunch of simulation questions for 70-431 . Today I heard from someone who has sat the exam with that content in it. It's great to get feedback on them, because it really helps Microsoft Learning work...
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Friday, October 27, 2006 12:52 PM

On learning (Calvin and Hobbes, the ACS and digital natives)

Digital natives learn differently. How do we take advantage of that? The funny thing is that right away, I've written this from an external perspective, when I'm probably in a mixture of both camps. Feel free to consider me in either camp as you...
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Friday, October 27, 2006 11:57 AM

What's wrong with IT?

To a large degree, it's the perception of experience. The IT industry has so many things wrong with it. It tends to be 'governed' (I don't know of a better word for what I mean there, 'run' would be wrong) by people in their 50s...
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