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I am a member of a private community of Microsoft Certified Trainers on a well known networking site. In the last couple of days one of my colleagues complained that his students were passing their exams by using Brain Dumps, and that these tools...
The following is a comment I made to a blog article on Network World on the topic of certification exam security. The actual post can be found here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26502 Using the MCP ID card as your security poses...
Get a free retake on your next Microsoft IT Professional, Developer, or Microsoft Dynamics certification exam. This is a limited offer so plan now! If you register for the Second Shot offer starting September 15, 2007, prior to taking any exam, you will...
An interesting post appeared in a newsgroup that I monitor today. A desktop support technician in the United Kingdom lamented a colleague who had attended a two week MCSE boot camp and indeed earned that certification. Unfortunately he later encountered...
As I perused the MCP site in a vain attempt to stem my boredom I saw an interesting headline: Low Risk, Great Return: Introducing Exam Insurance . It sounded intriguing so I looked into it. Over the past two years I have taken advantage of both Second...
This post is from the Microsoft newsgroups, along with my reply. Original: "Ryan" wrote: I signed up for this when they offered it and registered for it at that time, now that i want to use it, i can't, whats up with that. I went and took...
I got up this morning and was not really myself. A friend in need came over last night and kept me up late so I did not sleep as much as I would have liked, and as I got prepared for my day I was preoccupied with other things - I had a meeting with my...
I have gone on and on about the importance of that first cert exam, but I have read a lot of comments recently that made me realize how important exam selection can be to that successful first exam. If your decision to get certified is based on professional...
I am not sure when I first started respecting the certifications that some people bragged of, but I do know that the first time I was ever serious about getting certified was in 2001. I was IT Manager for a security firm in Montreal, and I had built my...
I do not consider myself to be a superstitious person. I have never worried about breaking mirrors and I remember as a kid intentionally stepping on cracks in the sidewalk. I do not have a lucky number but if I did I would give serious thought to making...
I know this is a few weeks late... sorry. So we all know that for a few months ending June 30th Microsoft was running one of its famous 'Second Chance Free' promotions. Last year I had taken advantage of it with a couple of exams, and was glad...