2010: A Year in Numbers for Microsoft Certifications

Being a psychometrician, I love numbers, so what better way to talk about all that ACE accomplished with your help in 2010 than by sharing some numbers with you?! Before I get into the numbers, though, I know that I'll be asked "how many people were certified in 2010?" Alas, that is one number that I cannot share with you, but I hope you'll enjoy the fun facts that I have provided below.

Without further ado (drum roll please)... 2010: A Year in Numbers

English Exams Published:

• 4 Microsoft Office exams
• 7 Microsoft Technical Associate exams
• 14 Microsoft Technical Specialist exams
• 6 Microsoft PRO exams
• 3 Upgrade exams
• 8 Microsoft Certified Masters exams
• 8 Microsoft Dyanmics exams
• 21 beta exams (includes TS, PRO, and MOS betas; how many did you participate in?)
• Total of 67 exams published in 2010 in English

Exams Published by Language:

• Chinese: 38
• Danish: 7
• Dutch: 4
• French: 22
• German: 31
• Italian: 1
• Japanese: 33
• Korean: 8
• Polish: 1
• Portuguese: 34
• Russian: 14
• Spanish: 13
• Turkish: 1

Total publications across all lanugages: 278 (Wow! We've been busy! (includes beta publications))

Exam Development:

• 157 SMEs participated in an objective domain session for an exam released in 2010
• 652 SMEs participated in the blueprinting process for an exam released in 2010
• 7270 SMEs participated in beta
• 1508 meal cards used by SMEs participating in exam development sessions in Redmond
• Average spend per meal card: $7.57 (breakfast burritos!)

SME Database (are you a member yet?):

• 1029 SMEs joined the database
• 3690 beta invitations were sent to those SMEs

Questions Created through Community Development Initiative:

• Item ideas created for 6 technologies (.NET, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Windows 7, and Windows Server) and 19 exams
• 400 items were generated by 150 SMEs

What were people being certified on in 2010?

• Across all MS certifications: Microsoft Certified Application Specialist on Office Word 2007
• Within our technical certifications: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration
• By technology: Office 2003, Office 2007, and Windows Server 2008

Well, I hope you found this as interesting as I did when I pulling together these numbers! Thanks to all the SMEs who helped us make 2010 a great year in the world of exam development!