I agree with you Bill - Microsoft need an advanced level SharePoint certification.
But here’s the thing. Microsoft do get tough when they want to. I was a Cisco CCNP from 2003-2006, but the CCNP exams were actually not as hard the one-off NT4 MCSE to Win2k MCSE exam. For those that were around at that time, Microsoft were stung by the number of ‘paper MSCE’ that were running around doing dumbass things. So they made a free exam for any NT4 MCSE to jump straight to Win2k MSCE and you only had one shot at it. Fail and you have to sit all MCSE exams again. If I recall it was a 4-6 hour sucker and was by far, the single hardest vendor cert exam I ever did and I had to take two weeks off work to study it. Apparently only 11% people passed it. All the NT4 MCSE whined big time about how hard it was but I wholeheartedly supported the increased toughness to try and regain some credibility to the MCSE credential. But in doing the two SharePoint exams (non dev), it feels like they have gone back to NT4 MSCE style thinking. It was ridiculously easy and proves very little. :-( Regards Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Williamson Sent: Sunday, 12 October 2008 11:04 AM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] MOSS 2007 Application Development Exam This is the problem with most MS certs. I'd much prefer that they moved to Cisco style exams: -A short written exam to weed out people who know NOTHING -4-6 hours to set up XYZ given a set of requirements (architect a farm, setup BDC to pull data from a basic webapp, config search with a few scopes, etc) -Grading by a human examination of results for more advanced exams you'd have to come in a second day after they purposefully break something (change permissions ona file share and tell you "search broke" and the like)... As it is I don't count exams in someone's favor, and someone who's passed 10-20 I often wonder when they have time for real work :) On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Arjan Paauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The biggest problem I have is that the questions where identical to the trial exams you can find on the web. I have 3 SharePoint certifications with 100% score.. But I don't feel they are worth anything because I knew all the questions already. It feels like a scam. Cheers, Arjan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sezai komur Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 8:02 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] MOSS 2007 Application Development Exam Yep I did it last year - and the biggest problem with the exam is yeah - such a broad range of topics to study. It's also common for people to only work with a few aspects of MOSS 2007 and people don't end up getting experience in BDC, Excel Services and other parts of the pie. Just do your best to cover EVERYTHING mate. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Uzma Naz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiya, My company have asked me to sit an exam to get certification, it is for exam 70-542. I'm pretty confident with the material, just wanted to seek some advice on where to source information, how best to practice material. Areas that I must work on is the BI, BDC, SSO areas, as I have not worked on these for a while. Wondering how many of us have passed this exam! Regards, Uzma _____ Try Facebook in Windows Live Messenger! Try it <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354030/direct/01/> Now! ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
