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If you’ve earned a Microsoft Certification, you may have initially prepared by reviewing an exam preparation guide . These guides provide an overview of the focus of an exam, what certification(s) it counts towards, and candidates’ level of expertise, along with the skills measured and suggested...

Mainstream product support ends for both SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 (.NET 2.0) on April 15, 2011. Mainstream product support for BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2006 R2 end on July 12, 2011. We will be retiring the SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 exams...

About a year ago, I asked for volunteers to help out with creating the first Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exams for IT Pro content areas. We shipped the first three IT Pro MTA exams in early July. (Yay!) We are starting development on a new MTA exam: Windows Operating System Fundamentals . We...

You are invited to take beta exam 71-681: TS: Windows® 7 and Office 2010, Deploying . If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take the exam in its released form. The 71-xxx identifier is used for registering for beta versions of MCP exams...

Exam 70-518 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Professional exam designed to assess candidates’ knowledge and skills on making the appropriate job role decisions around Windows-based applications on the desktop using Windows Forms and WPF. Candidates for this exam work on...

Exam 70-511 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Technical Specialist exam designed to assess candidates’ hands-on skills in developing applications using Windows Forms, WPF and the .NET Framework 4. Candidates for this exam work in a development environment that uses Microsoft...

Exam 70-669 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Technical Specialist exam designed to assess candidates’ hands-on skills in Windows Server 2008 R2 desktop virtualization. Candidates for this exam should have more than one and a half years of experience as virtualization administrators...

Anticipating the rapid adoption of Windows 7, Microsoft Learning introduced numerous training and certification resources and offers to help IT professionals and developers get up to speed quickly. Many of these resources, including certification upgrade paths, are now available on a single Web page...

Calling all Windows 7 Subject Matter Experts. We are designing virtual labs for our second virtual lab certification exam, 83-680 Windows 7, Configuring and we’d like to hear what you think. What tasks would you like to see on this exam?  Please send me your top 20 tasks that you’d like to see on...

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the EDST, so I thought I’d post what I think you want to know in one tidy package. Requirements To earn the MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Support Technician 7 credential, you’ll need to take the following exams: 70-680: TS: Windows 7, Configuring...

Those of you who took the beta version of Exam 70-686 should be starting to get your results back. We just discovered that the title as it appears on the certificate is missing the word “Enterprise,” so it reads “MCITP: Desktop Administrator 7.” The title appears correctly on the transcript as “MCITP...

The following beta exams are available for registration on Prometric’s Web site now: Exam Beta code 70-579, TS: Windows Mobile 6.5, Configuring WEMOI 70-580, TS: Windows Mobile 6.5, Application Development WEMOD Click the exam title above to view the exam’s preparation guide, which includes a description...

Exam 70-683 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Technical Specialist exam designed to assess candidates’ hands-on skills in preinstalling Windows 7 for OEMs. Candidates for this exam are IT professionals who use the Microsoft OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) and imaging tools to deploy...

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...

I just checked yesterday’s contest, and we still don’t have a winner for Win2000. I guess I stumped you with question #1 in particular, but this is a great illustration of why we don’t use “choose all that apply” items in the MCP program anymore. Doing so, makes items more difficult by design rather...

I’m headed over to the Win7 launch event. So, without further ado, today’s journey takes us to Exam 210:Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional. I’m going make you work a little harder for today’s exam voucher with 3 questions. ------------ Question #1: You want...

Tomorrow is the release of Win7!! We’re in the final countdown (the song is racing through my brain)! So, you’re probably wondering where I’ve been... I’m not ignoring you, and I didn’t forget. I’m shaking things up a bit to give readers in other time zones a chance to play. Hint: Tomorrow’s post will...

In today’s installment of our tribute to Win7 (are you getting excited yet? I am—I plan to be first in line on Thursday morning to buy it for my home computer), I have selected a few questions from Exam 063: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft® Windows® 95. In honor of this exam...

In honor of the upcoming release of Win7 (“ More Happy is Coming ”—I love that commercial), I thought it might be fun to take a journey back in time and look at some of our earlier Windows client exams. Let’s start with Exam 030: Microsoft® Windows® 3.1. It was interesting to read through these items...

Many of you have been asking when the beta versions of exams 685 and 686 would be released. The good news is that both beta exams start next Monday. The bad news is that both beta exams are almost full up. You better move quick if you want a seat! I apologize in advance to those of you who won’t get...