Over the past few months, I have been working diligently to learn more about Azure. As a result of my studies, I have successfully passed the Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions certification exam (70-533). By far, this is the hardest exam I have taken to date. Over the past 15+ years I have worked very hard to learn as much as possible about SQL Server and the Windows operating systems that it runs on, but that knowledge only took me so far within Azure. I had to look at Azure as an entire suite of products that seamlessly work together, and...
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Exams 70-457 & 70-458 – Transition Your MCTS on SQL Server 2008 to MCSA: SQL Server 2012
This past week I finally completed the 70-458 exam to upgrade my certification to MSCA: SQL Server 2012. I never thought it would take me over a year to pass two upgrade exams, but sometimes life just gets in the way. I will say this is probably the hardest SQL Server exam I’ve taken so far. The format of the upgrade exam is to combine questions from the three standard MCSA SQL Server 2012 exams, 70-461, 70-462, and 70-463. My hardest problem was dealing with the data warehouse questions; mainly the ones around Data Quality Services, Master Data Services, and...
Continue reading...Exam 70-432 – SQL Server 2008 Implementation and Maintenance
For years, actually more like a decade, I’ve been saying that I’m going to get certified in SQL Server. Well finally after years of saying it, I finally did. I passed my first exam, 70-432, this past week. I have to say it was easier and at the same time harder than I thought it would be. Easier, as in the content that was covered in the test was already 2nd nature to me, because I had been doing this stuff for years. And it was harder, because of the way Microsoft asked the questions. Even if you know the...
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