Quick Update

Sorry for the late responses this past week.  I was on vacation last week and my wife told me there was to be no computer time related to work at all.  Of course, with doing home study for ground school for a private pilot certificate takes up a fair bit of time at home so it wasn't much of a stretch.

So a quick update as to what's up in the certification world at Microsoft.  Today, we just completed the item selection and standard setting for 70-432, the SQL 2008 DBA exam and tomorrow, we will complete the same session for the BI exam, 70-448.

For those of you who took the exams, I'd like to inform you that you all failed.  Not really.  I do want to thank you for the comments and the detail in them however.  The SMEs we had in the room were in agreement on most of them and as a result, we reached consensus on the questions that needed to be removed.  Some will have small wording changes made to reflect your suggestions, where the changes will not impact the question outcome or score.

I will be attending two trade shows this fall and hope to meet up with some of you that may be in attendance at either PDC in LA in October and TechEd EMEA in Barcelona in November.  Obviously for TechEd, I will be there during dev week.  If you're there, please stop by the Microsoft Learning booths for a chat and introduce yourself.

Gerry

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 04, 2008
  PingBack from http://www.easycoded.com/quick-update/

• Anonymous
  September 04, 2008
  Hey Gerry Might catch up with you at PDC then... and best of luck with the PPL..

• Anonymous
  September 04, 2008
  Hi! Nice to hear :) Are the results coming soon for those who attended beta tests (70-432)?

• Anonymous
  September 05, 2008
  Any date yet for the 70-433 Beta? Thanks! Jennifer

• Anonymous
  September 05, 2008
  Hi Jemm, You will be seeing results in about a month or so.  This IS/SS is just the beginning of the actual scoring. We need to remove the problem items from the exam, then rescore the remaining questions and then evaluate it against the passing score. Because this is a concerted effort between us and Prometric, it does take a little bit of time. Gerry

• Anonymous
  September 05, 2008
  Hi Jennifer, We should be going to beta with 70-433 at the end of September. Gerry

• Anonymous
  September 05, 2008
  Gerry, Sorry, My English is very bad... So, Will the results of exam 70-432 be known by a month (near October 2008)?

• Anonymous
  September 06, 2008
  Hi Roberto, When English is not your first language, you should never apologize for not understanding something that someone says.  :-) I expect the results to be available for 70-432 around October, yes. Gerry

• Anonymous
  September 07, 2008
  Still waiting for the followings betas: 433 SQL Developer TS 505 Windows Form TS 563 Windows Form PD 564 ASP.NET PD 565 Enterprise PD Any update?  Will they be available before what I have studied fadeout from my brain?

• Anonymous
  September 08, 2008
  Paul, 433 is forthcoming by the end of Sept. For the others, enjoy your holiday Turkey, Christmas feast and New Year celebrations.  :-) Gerry

• Anonymous
  September 08, 2008
  That means, I will need to re-prepare them when they are available ... It's good that 433 come out at the end of the month.  I can focus on the WAR beta this week :)

• Anonymous
  September 22, 2008
  Hi, wondering if there is any updates on these results?

• Anonymous
  September 23, 2008
  Laura, Are you referring to the results for 70-432? The exam has a live date of September 30.  This means the results will not be available until after that date. Gerry

• Anonymous
  September 24, 2008
  Yes I was thanks :) I didn't read it carefully enough. Cheers for the reply. Laura

• Anonymous
  September 24, 2008
  Hi Laura, I may have to retract that as well.  I believe there is an issue with the scoring, not sure what yet, but it might delay this exam by a little bit. I'll post more when I find out what the scoop is. Gerry

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2008
  issue with scoring?  Delay?  With an MS beta exam?  Never!! :)

• Anonymous
  October 03, 2008
  Just wondering whether Prometric have given an eta on beta results?  I'm assuming since the exams are live the scoring weights and so forth must have been sorted so delay must be with Prometric :)

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2008
  The status in the Candidate history on the prometric site just changed from Tested to Passed, I didn't receive the official e-mail yet, but "Any moment now..."