The World According to Mitch

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 a number of downsides.  To mention two severely...

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 receive a free Second Shot exam if you don't...

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 a number of simple issues that he could not resolve...

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 Chance Free offers with mostly good results (I passed...

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 the 070-271 today and failed it by like 10 points...

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 lawyer that I was not looking forward to, and 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 necessity – i.e.: your boss said you need to...

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 first Active Directory domain around Windows 2000...

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 it thirteen. I do not think I have ever thrown...

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 to do the same this year. My MCSA cert has been on...