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Certification 101

  • Artikkeli

 

At the suggestion and example of many of you good people, for example, our friend Wayne, we are hosting a Certification 101 Live Meeting in April.

Certification 101: Getting Started with Microsoft Certification

Audience: IT Professionals, developers who think they might like to get certified, but aren't sure it's right for them and/or aren't sure where to start. People who have never taken a Microsoft exam and work with Microsoft products, or people who will be working with Microsoft in the very near future.

Registration: Join the Microsoft Certified Professional team to learn about the benefits and process of getting certified: choosing a certification path, preparing for your first exam, taking an exam, and what to expect after that. Click to register for:

Here's what we'll talk about, probably. Suggestions?

  • what a technical certification* can do for you--what is the goal?
  • if that sounds good, then how to choose a certification track that will help you meet your goal
  • how do you know when you're ready (expected experience level, time/money involved, etc)
  • preparation options (what you need to know, how to learn it)
  • the testing experience (registering, during the test, what happens when you're done)

Our hope is to make this less intimidating for new people. Newbies. In related news, Gerry has started a series of posts on getting started in certification for developers. For pwogwammer newbies.

Please send the links around if you have co-workers or user groups who might find this helpful. 

*from Microsoft Corporation, my employer.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    If you need any help, let me know! :)

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    The link to the events are wrong, but here are the correct ones.   Just delete out the the first section of the link, as in (http://blogs.msdn.com/%20).  Here is the proper links: April 9, 2008 at 7:30 A.M. Pacific Time http:/msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032369349 April 9, 2008 at 5:00 P.M. Pacific Time http:/msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032369351 Thanks, Keenan

  • Anonymous
    February 29, 2008
    Ya know, and I'm probably going to have to forfeit my basket of MS certs for this, but I've always wondered whether anyone's thought of e.g. Redhat, MS and Cisco (and maybe people like Brocade/Symantec?) getting together to create some kind of Hetrogenous Infrastructure Guru cert or something...   I mean sure some of the MS stuff acknowledges BIND servers, and some of the Cisco stuff mentions that things other than switches and routers exist, but it seems silly to have so little that covers the spectrum.

  • Anonymous
    February 29, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2008
    lol @ dave - it's unfortunate that you're probably right.  I think if  Redhat and MS agreed over anything half the galaxy would implode.

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2008
    In the Netherlands there are a few opportunities where vendor indepent educational organisations offer a certain level of education (college degree) where you can use different types (vendors) of certificates. For example, certain technical education (college degree) you can use Linux, Cisco or Microsoft certificates to show you expertise and use it as part of your technical degree. So if you pass these education, you don't only show a certain level of college degree, but also a basic knowledge on Microsoft, Cisco and Linux.

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2008
    Sorry, i thought i fixed it but it keeps adding the blog prefix to the URl. Hopefully those links will work, now. Thanks for letting me know.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    <Spam> I passed 642 Today! TS:Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring So Happy you wouldn't believe it! ..Sorry had to tell someone...flatmates didn't understand :P </Spam>

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Adrian CONGRATS!  Well done.  I'm still waiting for results from the 647 and 648 betas, but have 642 and a few others on my list of things to accomplish in 2008. Take Care jim

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Peter My bad, I'm waiting on 646 & 647, don't have the new numbers sorted correctly in my brain yet...

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    Hi Mike, I just saw your question. Since an answer hasn't been posted yet, here's one. :-) MCDST = Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician An MCDST-targeted job might include:

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2008
    http:/msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032369349 http:/msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032369351 I can't open thease is this because of my location?

  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2008
    PS Mike sorry I never responded; ALice you are awesome.