Designers Are Next

re: Designers Are Next

Tony — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:53:02 GMT

Keen to see your expected 3.5 exam release dates

re: Designers Are Next

Gerry O'Brien — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:00:22 GMT

Hi Tony,

Which exams are you looking for? Most of the .NET 3.5 exams are already released with the exception of a couple.

Gerry

re: Designers Are Next

Niall — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:42:48 GMT

Good to see it coming down the pipeline. Let me know when the beta is shipping, I have one designer in here who would love a pop at it

re: Designers Are Next

Smith — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:04:04 GMT

Hello Gerry,

I believe that Tony was refering MCPD 3.5 exams.

re: Designers Are Next

Mark Price — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:32:41 GMT

This time last year I taught a "Silverlight for Designers" three-day course several times to dozens of designers from design agencies in UK, MEA and CEE regions. Based on their feedback I would recommend only an Expression Blend certification.

I wouldn't bother with a cert for Design because most designers are going to stick with Adobe products on their Macs, and use conversion tools (including Design!) to generate XAML for importation into Blend. Encoder isn't complex enough to have an exam of it's own. Expression Web is a great product, but I can't see many wanting certification with it.

Of course, that was a year ago, and I'm sure the Design team is adding lots of cool stuff...

re: Designers Are Next

Mark Price — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:34:13 GMT

p.s. I suspect you'll have just as many developers as designers interested in a Blend cert. And I'll be one of them. ;-)

re: Designers Are Next

Gerry O'Brien — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:53:35 GMT

Hi Smith,

Even at that, there are 12 total exams for .NET 3.5. I need to know which ones he is waiting for, before I can offer release dates. :-)

Gerry

re: Designers Are Next

Gerry O'Brien — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:54:52 GMT

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the feedback! Greatly appreciated to have this kind of information available.

Gerry

re: Designers Are Next

Smith — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:08:53 GMT

Hello Gerry,

I'm waiting for 071-564, 071-505, 071-565 and 071-563 results. ;)

Thanks.

re: Designers Are Next

Barry — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:13:14 GMT

Hi Gerry,

I'm also keen to see a date.

I'd like to know when 70-564: ASP.Net Deveoper 305 is comming, I'm preparing for it for some time now.

Thanks in advance!

re: Designers Are Next

Gerry O'Brien — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:44:29 GMT

Results are typically available shortly after the exam goes live. Here are the current live dates I have;

70-505 February 2, 2009

70-563 February 3, 2009

70-564 January 29, 2009

70-565 February 23, 2009

Gerry

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-505)

isakbozzy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:59:01 GMT

Hi Gerry,

Hows things?

Just wondering if you know the release date of the above book and if not where I could find out.

I would like to prepare for Exam 70-505 and have no idea where to begin without the book.

Thanks

Isak

re: Designers Are Next

Gerry O'Brien — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:45:45 GMT

Hi Isak,

Can you be a little more specific as to what book you are referring to> I don't see on listed above here.

Gerry

re: Designers Are Next

Stephen Garner — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:18:59 GMT

I guess Isak means this one (the self-paced training kit):

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/books/13111.aspx

- Feb 29th

re: Designers Are Next

Gerry O'Brien — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:29:31 GMT

Hi Stephen,

If that is the case, then your link answers Isak's question. The page shows the date of February 25, 2009.

Thanks

Gerry

re: Designers Are Next

TitusT — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:58:37 GMT

Prometric has published the results for 71-564 PRO: ASP.NET, today.

re: Designers Are Next

Felipe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:40:34 GMT

Yup, results are there. I'm so happy because i passed. I remember that when I passed an exam I used to received a Microsoft mail confirming that, but not this time.

re: Designers Are Next

Geoff — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:49:02 GMT

Prometric have published results for 71-505 and 71-563.

re: Designers Are Next

Peter — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:24:02 GMT

I saw one email come in last week (1/23) telling me I didn't pass some exam. I can narrow it down, and I suspect that it is for 563, but no where in the email does it say what I flunked. The email for a "pass" at least gives me the name of the exam I passed, so I can cross that one off my list of things to wait for. My employer gives bonuses for passing certification exams (we're gold partners).

re: Designers Are Next

Ulugbek Umirov — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:23:27 GMT

Peter, what prevents you from checking your account at Prometric and find out info about failed/passed exams?

As for me, 70-563 is still "Tested", but I hope for the best.

Current Live dates

Isak — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:27:43 GMT

Hi Gerry,

I was just wondering what your current live dates are. I see in a previous post you said that these were the current live dates at the time:

70-505 February 2, 2009

70-563 February 3, 2009

I can't see 70-505 on Prometric so just wondering if these dates have changed.

Thanks

Isak

re: Designers Are Next

Peter — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:41:29 GMT

Well, well, well. I didn't know one could look up the results on prometric. 563 still shows up as "tested" for me as well, and it was 564 that was "teh fail."

re: Designers Are Next

Gerry O'Brien — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:44:57 GMT

Hi Isak,

I just posted the updated dates here, http://blogs.msdn.com/gerryo/archive/2009/02/02/status-update-on-exam-release-dates.aspx

Gerry