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Getting certified: MCITP DBA

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Since forever I’ve been excited about taking a Microsoft’s certification: the different types of certification you can get within Microsoft technologies, the deep knowledge and experience, and the recognition value were some of the things that always made me feel like good reasons to get certified. But I never thought that my first achievement regarding to this was going to be a SQL Server certification: Microsoft Certified IT Professional Database Administrator (SQL Server 2005). 70-444 just passed. Alberto Ortega (left), me and Pablo Cababie (right) I never was an expert on SQL, but it sure sound like a great challenge to take when we started discussing this with my team-mates. So, we started a few weeks ago with some practicing and learning practically from scratch in many aspects.   70-431 SQL Server 2005: Implementation and Maintenance This is in deed the exam where you should start your SQL certification. Not only you get to know about installing SQL Server, you also get to know the differences between the different versions, and several basis about SQL management. This exam has 35 questions and 12 simulations. The simulations are mainly oriented about using backup features. Certifying this exam you will get also the Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (since it was my first exam I also got the Microsoft Certified Professional, MCP,  with this). More info here. 70-443 Designing a Database Server Infrastructure by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 This exam was a little […]

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Windows Server 2008 Exams

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On the Orlando Tech-Ed that took place on the first days of June, one of the things that were official announced and presented were the Windows Server 2008 exams for Microsoft’s certification. Here’s some of the things you should now if you are planning to get or upgrade to this certification: – This will be a new stage for certification, the names will be: MCTS (three exams) and MCITP (2 exams). – MCSA and MCSE there’ll be still certifications available. – On 2008 the Windows 2000 exams will be retired (the exams but not the certification, of course). – MCTS exams will be availabe one moth after the RTM version of Windows Server 2008. MCITP will be available two months after. – There’ll be a upgrade exam from 2003 certification to 2008. – There will be NOT an upgrade from Windows 2000 to 2008. – MCSA and MCSE professionals will have a 40% discount on the price of the Windows 2008 exams. Taking a look to some of the sites that talked about these new exams, I found out some of the topics that will be on these tests. Peak to Windows 2008 exam: Terminal Services – the different roles, the new features, etc IIS 7 – the new command line tools, new features, etc Server Core – of course, know your way with all the cmdline tooling that you can use Virtualization – be sure to study on how […]

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