At long last, we have a place for you all to find out about beta exams when they are open to the public, without having to read 70 different forums or blogs. Subscribe to this blog (for developer and IT pro exams, both) and you'll get a notice when one...

I know many of you have heard about our emulation technology that we're developing and rolling out with the Prometric team. We'll have a lot more information on this soon, but in short: it is a new type of performance-based testing that has you kids performing...

That was actually a Rick Astley video. Here is the right link for the recording from the Microsoft Certified Master meeting . And here are the slides (not transcribed ). And, here is a related article that was just published in TechRepublic: So you think...

Here is the recording from today’s Microsoft Certified Master meeting .

I think there are problems getting in to our Live Meeting about Microsoft Certified Master. If this is you, here is the correct link to get in to the meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/lmevents/join?id=MSFT073008AMlm&role=attend&pw=ATT12125lm...

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx

You MCAD holders who weren't that jazzed on the upgrade path to .NET 2.0 MCPD (with exams 70-551 and 70-552) have a new option. Two new exams mean you can upgrade from MCAD to the MCTS series on 2.0 with one exam, then go from there to 3.5 with one exam...

You've probably seen this elsewhere already, but I keep getting asked about it (that's reasonable!), so I'll post the tiny amount of info I have about a few beta exams going on now. I don't have any more info for you, unfortunately. What you see is what...

I'm going to type up some of the things John and J talked about in this morning's SharePoint certification Live Meeting. My report will be from my non-IT perspective, so you might find this over-simplified, too elementary, or way beneath you. If that...

I have a cardboard box of the "Certified Geek" baseball hats in my office, awaiting shipment to a community member in Peru, Jesús Enrique Gonzales Azcarate . I had scrawled "for Jesus" on the side so I'd remember what was what...

There is a disproportionate amount of clamoring and piping up about beta exams given how few of you, in the big scheme of things, take them. This leads me to believe that: A ) we need to make more information available about betas and/or B ) the type...

I've heard that some of you have had problems recently when taking one of our exams with performance-based testing (simulations). I posted a response to a forum somewhere a while ago about it, but maybe others of you have had the same problem. If this...

Oh, hi. Is this thing still on? I haven't been on vacation, actually. I've just been working non-stop for a few weeks on my first LOLcat . Oh, hi. That's right. I'm all up in your reader, giving you the business. 

Hi, here is the recording link from last week's anti-piracy, anti-cheat meeting with Peggy Crowley.