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Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:54 AM

Upgrade your MCP for only $25 US*

I had a great response from the certification vouchers I gave out three months ago . Unfortunately I don’t have any more of those to give away, but Microsoft Learning have announced an offer that’s almost as good. If you’re a MCP and you got your last
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:40 PM

Ramp yourself up with Ramp Up

I know, getting training budget is hard at the moment, but you really want to make yourself as employable as possible. Help is at hand (in fact, it’s only a mouse click away). There are, of course, a whole bunch of Virtual Labs you can do (for developers
Posted by acoat | 4 Comments
Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:08 PM

Want Help with that New Years Resolution? Take a Free* Certification Test

Update – Sorry folks. All these vouchers are gone. I’ll post again if I can get any more. First, Happy New Year to all! Community , Certification , News , Static News , Database Editorial , Smart Client Editorial , Web Development Editorial Anyone who's
Posted by acoat | 9 Comments
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:40 PM

Get twice as certified and help win your User Group $3000 worth of prizes

As some of you know, I'm a big fan of the certification system . Well, there are only 11 days left of MS Learning's great offer to give you a free exam voucher for each MCP/MCTS credential you get before 31 May. You'll need to prove you passed by sharing
Posted by acoat | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:51 PM

Visual Studio 2008 certifications demystified

Still catching up on my blogging, so this one's a little old. The irrepressible Trika blogged about the VS2008 series of certifications and included a bunch of different paths through the tracks based on your current certification status. There's also
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Friday, May 02, 2008 10:13 AM

MS Press Online Store now open in Australia with discounts for UG members until the end of May

I got this note from Tania Netterfield, our partner manager for CPLS and the local MS Press representative. Hello all, I’m delighted to advise you that our press distributor Woodslane in conjunction with MS has developed an Microsoft Online Press
Posted by acoat | 5 Comments
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:05 AM

SQL Server 2008 Certification Live Meeting (APAC Friendly Time)

I was in a meeting today with Tania Netterfield and she shared some certification plans with me that I'm itching to announce ... but I have to wait. In the mean time, Trika's announced that they've rescheduled the SQL Server 2008 Certification live meeting.
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:48 PM

VS2008 Certification Live Meeting - 24 Jan 2008

Via the irrepressible Trika : Microsoft Certification for Developers Join the Microsoft Certification team to find out what is new, and what you need to know, for your next step in developer certification. In this meeting, we will introduce our plans
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:50 PM

Wow, Now I'm MCPD!

Call me unusual, but I like doing the MS Certification exams . First, some history. My first exam was way back in 1999, when I participated in the beta program for the (then) new Visual FoxPro exams, 70-155 (Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications
Posted by acoat | 10 Comments
Monday, June 25, 2007 10:41 PM

Certification at Tech.Ed

David Williams has been talking about certification, and he links to " this entertaining blog by Trika Harms zum Spreckel ". Trika will be coming to Tech.Ed on the Gold Coast in August. We'll also have some great deals on certification taken at Tech.Ed,
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:49 PM

Making your MCP Transcript Public

One of my colleagues pinged me yesterday asking how someone could prove to their employer that they were an MCP (or, conversely, how the employer could check such a claim). I pointed him to the MCP Transcript Sharing Tool. The MCP can provide the employer
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Saturday, December 23, 2006 2:37 PM

TechEd 2007 Thinking Part 1

TechEd 2007 is happening in Australia (on the Gold Coast) August 8-10 and in New Zealand (in Auckland) August 13-15. As Chuck said some weeks ago, I'm the guy on point for content in Australia and have been thinking about content and delivery for the
Posted by acoat | 9 Comments
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:07 PM

The TechEd Developer Goodness just gets Gooder and Gooder!

Developer Cabana Sessions Following on from my previous post , there has been a great response to the Developer Cabana sessions - so much so that they're already fully booked! I've increased the room capacity slightly, so it'll be standing room only at
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Sunday, November 20, 2005 12:13 PM

Studying for another Beta Exam (71-536)

Looks like Mitch is studying for 71–536 as well. I’m signed up to do it AFTER the Ready Launch – on Dec 20. For 71–528 , we had a study group chat . Mitch has taken a different tack, doing individual blog posts on each of the skills
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Monday, November 14, 2005 8:53 PM

71-528 Study Group Chats - Fourth Transcript Posted

Another meeting this evening where we kind of covered off some of what was left after the first three sessions. Transcript Skills being measured
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