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On Monday I got a question from York about how to study for a beta exam. I told him that our formal training materials usually aren't ready yet when the beta is realeased, and referred him to TechNet and MSDN, etc. However, it got me thinking. Most people who take a beta probably know two or three...

York is a great place, and great questions come from the UK! As for preparation, I use the beta products and become pretty familiar with it. For the exam, I read the product specification sheet - ie "what is new" and this helps in the exam.

Thanks for the feedback and for the votes. Looks like we're running neck-and-neck between having a blog that links to community member lists vs. a central location where everyone can submit resources. Here are the results of my little 669 experiment so far. Special thanks to Ryan, Helmer, Slavko...

Following your @MSLearning account on Twitter, I just read another user talking about his scheduled .NET 4.0 beta exam. I did some research on subject and found this post . Seems now I need to create an MSL account and to fill a survey to get eligible to a beta invite and I was waiting for an announcement...

Hey All, I have completed MCP in 2007 on .Net, now I want to upgrade it to MCAD. Which paper of SQL Server should i take for this??? Please suggest me. Thanks..

Anyone know how I can add my CISSP to the MS site? The CISSP counts as an elective security exam and since I have it, I don't really want to take the Security+ to get credit. I've tried the MCP Resource # but they don't have any idea either. Thanks! Greg

It has most likely been replaced by the Performance Based exam, 83-640 More information here: www.microsoft.com/.../Exam.aspx

VBC is a good idea from Microsoft for all MCP's as well as MCT's like myself to express our qualifications and experience we have. As other experts said before about this new idea, it shows others your experience and can be shared with others. I used mainly for my website and also for my outlook...

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Hey Now, Personally I've been attempting to study & prep for exams from only approved & ethically ok material from Microsoft. I was wondering if this URL is ethically ok to study from? http://www.certification-microsoft.net/ Thanks in advance for your assistance, Catto

In another thread, it has come up that posting your VBC is the equivalent of "showing off your certifications". If that is the feeling then the value of the VBC is non-existent. What are people’s opinions of this? Do you post your VBC through whatever method…or do you feel by...

I'm slightly concerned... I have been studying for my MCTS 70-620 exam (Vista Configuration) for a little over 4 months. All of my practice exams (supplied with the Microsoft Press Training Kit) I've scored 90%+ on, but how closely do these questions reflect the real deal? My exam is Thursday...

I was browsing the new Microsoft Partner requirements and found something odd. In the Server Platform Advanced Competency Requirements it lists three certiifcations that you would need to employ to qualify. You must employ or contract with four people, each of whom must hold at least one of the following...

Just wondering if anyone can recommend some excellent Sharepoint reference and training material. Thanks! - Jeff

Are there any current or does anyone know of any future Microsoft certification discounts? Thrive has an old 50% discount still up, but it is no longer active: http://www.msdnevents.com/thrivedev/CertOffer.aspx

Hello, Is there some way we can organize our transcript, or have it done for us? When viewing the transcript through the MCP site, it looks ok, but then when you download it, it sorts the Microsoft Certification Status by date recieved, which looks horrible. Can we get it to look like the preview...

Hi, Any date when the 70-523 exam (upgrade path from MCPD ASP.Net 3.5 to MCPD Web 4) will be available ? Thanks, Patrick

I followed the instructions in Chapter 2 Exercise 1 of the MCTS Exam 70-680 Configuring Windows 7 Self Paced Training Kit. ISBN 978-0-7356-2708-6 Page 84-85 I made several Windows PE disks that gave me the following error "Windows Boot Manager" Status 0xC000000F Info: The boot selection...

Guys i have passed Exam 70-649 upgrading MCSE to MCITP and my current certification is MCSE and Windows vista but in website: https://mcp.microsoft.com/mcp it shows me that i passed the exam 70-649 and there is no any certificate. Can anybody tell me why please ?

Is there anyone out there that can help develop a road map to getting a Cobol programmer to a point of being a .NET MVC ninja? My team is in a transition where we are migrating away from a legacy mainframe and toward the web. We already have an MVC application up and running but is maintained by existing...

hi everyone! I am trying to do the online training for MCPD but i find the online labs are quite slow to respond and the window size is too small. is it possible to download the Visual Studio projects for the online courses so I can do the labs locally? Thanks! Ross.

Why did Microsoft not find a better way to notify us of the exam changes? I took the 70-643 exam today and failed in large part due to only having learned less than a week ago that the exams were updated to include material covering Server 2008 R2. Judging by the test I took a lot of the material I had...

I am about to start working on my MCITP: Enterprise Administrator and I am about start the Microsoft Training Kit for the 70-680 exam. It states that for the practices it is recommended to have the virtual machines I will be working on on an isolated network. Why is this? Is it ok to just use my standard...