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This question is raised often amongst experienced IT professionals and in the most part their argument is that across the board, current MCTS and MCITP exams have become easier than the older "MCP" exams. I may stand alone here, but I must respectfully disagree :-S Let me share one point of...

A few years ago, Scott Campbell was laid off from his job as a debt collector in Sacramento. As a former high school dropout with only a GED – he found himself faced with limited career prospects. Scott fell back on his amateur experience with computers and eventually found his way into some short...

(Thanks to Michael Domingo over at MCPMag for pointing this one out.) Enterprise Systems picked up on Gartner’s prediction of up to 250,000,000 new Windows 7 installations over the next four years, warning that “demand for IT pros with Windows 7 migration skills will go through the roof.” If you’ve been...

Well, it isn’t really “IW” but that’s our broader bucket for exams covering SharePoint and Microsoft Project, and there is exam news for both products. First, as many of you know but we still get a lot of questions about, we released the highly anticipated SharePoint 2010 exams...

Last week, Microsoft released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta at their Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). Monday, I received noticed that I needed to install it on my work system. Like most updates, it took minutes to install and I was back to work-as-usual. For many enterprises, the release of...

We're on hiatus for the summer, but if you missed any of the Live Meetings for Managers you can view on-demand any time. Check out the great presentations created specifically to help managers of IT professionals and developers understand the value of certification for their teams, take advantage...

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...

We’ll be opening registration for the following beta exams soon: 71-573: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development 71-576: Pro: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications 71-667: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring 71-668: Pro: Microsoft SharePoint 2010...

Based on some recent events, I find it necessary to post this as a notification to all those who take certification exams. This applies to certifications across different vendors, not just Microsoft. During the opening screens of the exam, before you reach the actual question portion, a non-disclosure...

Exam 70-693 is live Exam 70-693 is now available in Prometric testing centers! This is a Professional exam designed to validate a candidate’s knowledge of Microsoft virtualization technologies. Candidates should have one to three years of experience using Microsoft virtualization products, including...

The British Computer Society’s IT Training Magazine recently published a great story highlighting the “groundswell of interest” around training and certification on Windows 7. Check it out —besides some great pearls of wisdom from MCT Jay Ferron and others,there’s a great list of resources at the bottom...

If you were one of the 700+ folks who joined our first Live Meetings for Managers presentation ... Thank You. If you missed the Live Meeting or want to view it again, you can find a link to the recording as well as our schedule and registration links for the next meeting on our new IT Manager Portal...

Please join us for a special Live Meeting series created specifically for managers of IT professionals and developers. Click below for more information and to register for: Whatever Happened to the MCSE? (and What s This MCITP?) Thursday, January 28 at 8:00 A.M. Pacific Time ( What time is this in my...