Hey fellow SharePoint newbies,
Are any of you interested in studying for Microsoft certification exams? I tend to use cert exams as motivation to learn new technologies. To be honest, I’ve not done as well at this (this time) as I thought I would, as I managed to fail both the Dev and Admin exams for SP2010 – even though I thought I was rather well prepared.
There’s an expression, “Never a failure, always a lesson.” Well my lesson was to practice more. I need to do all of the exercises in the Training Kit from MS for Configuring SP2010, and I need to do much more practice development.
SO… In order to lay a foundation of knowledge about the SharePoint environment, I am diving back in to the Training Kit and have another go at the Configuring exam (and that will be discontinued this summer, so time is running out!).
Anyone interested in sharing the journey? …Keeping each other going (nagging) 🙂
Give a shout!
OK. I may reach out to you when I start preparing for the 2013 exams.
Thanks.
Hi Harvey,
Vlad found the date when the exams are being retired. So only 6 months or so to do it if one wants the 2010 certs.
I never did get much of a response re an online study group, BUT things have changed at work …well, mainly things have changed from Microsoft 🙂 …So I’m now thinking that I’ll focus on the 2013 certs, since that’s where I’m spending the larger part of my SP time 🙂
Hello Harvey,
I think the 667/668 are getting retired in January 2014.Â
EDIT: Found source
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Retiring on January 31, 2014 |
70-573:Â TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development 70-576:Â PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications 70-667:Â TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring 70-668:Â PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/retired-certification-exams.aspx#fbid=XKt1nHNGE6F |
Hi, Joe. Did you ever find a study partner for the Configuration exam? When is the exam getting retired this summer?
Thanks again Joe, this is extremely helpful! Â There sure are a lot of SharePoint books out there and not all of them are worth it, so it’s very nice to see the recommendations.
