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We're looking for volunteers to help us with the development of a new Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)* exam covering gaming fundamentals. If you've taught introductory Gaming courses in a high school, community college, or other learning environment or have developed games in XNA or other...

Given that Valentine’s Day came and went over the weekend, I thought I’d send a little Valentine out to all of our friends on Born to Learn, celebrating our beloved readers. (Please forgive the complete lack of flowery prose. There’s a reason that I don’t work for Hallmark!) O B2L community! How do I...

Exam 70-579 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a technical specialist (TS) exam designed to assess candidates’ hands-on skills configuring Windows Mobile 6.5 devices. . A qualified candidate for this exam possesses a deep and broad understanding of managing and configuring the user...

Exam 70-663 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Professional exam designed for candidates who are responsible for the Exchange messaging environment in an enterprise environment. Candidates for this exam are responsible for the planning and deployment of the Exchange servers in an...

When my colleague Deborah asked me to present a Live Meeting for IT hiring managers called “Whatever Happened to the MCSE? (and What’s This MCITP?),” I figured we’d maybe get a couple hundred interested participants. So when I checked the registration numbers today, I was a bit shocked to find that we...

As part of Microsoft Learning’s Career Initiative –which is designed to help customers and students to get trained and certified on Microsoft technologies – we are bringing back Second Shot starting TODAY. We believe Microsoft Certification can boost your career and we want you to be...

In 2010, we will be creating online communities where people can contribute and collaborate on exam questions for several live exams. We hope to establish a community-based item pool that not only taps into the real-world expertise of industry professionals but also opens the door for more influencers...

Have you taught introductory IT Pro courses in a high school, community college, or other learning environment? Microsoft Learning is creating a new exam program (separate from the MCP program) targeted at measuring a beginner’s knowledge and skills in a broad technology area. We’re looking for volunteers...

October and November will be busy months around here as we start design on the Visual Studio 2010 exams. These sessions will be a little different than what we did for VS2008 as we are working with our Portfolio Design team on a combined effort using our USD 3.0 processes. USD stands for Unified Skills...

Have you been playing with early bits of Exchange 2010? Do you want to participate in the development of the next round of Exchange exams? Well you can! We’ll be kicking off the beta for the first Exchange 2010 exam (70-662: TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring) in the next few weeks...

A few weeks ago, I asked Born to Learn readers if they would like to see a notice about each new exam release. The feedback was unanimous: Yes. So here’s the first one—and a momentous one it is! At long last, Exam 70-680 is available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Technical Specialist exam designed...

Exam SMEs = nice folks As a Content Development Manager for exams, I meet a lot of very nice folks who are technical experts on a wide variety of Microsoft technologies. We call them Subject Matter Experts, or SMEs (rhymes with “sneeze”) for short. SMEs are involved in every phase of our development...

I see my friend Devon Musgrave posting about new MS Press book releases, and I think to myself--That’s a neat idea. Would B2L readers like to see a post whenever a new MCP exam goes live? We generally post notice of public beta exam releases here already, but I’m wondering specifically whether...