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UPDATE: SBS 2003 Exam in Beta This Week
Microsoft has released latest exam, this time for Small Business Server implementers, to beta testers.
Update: As Microsoft certification program managers have planned to do, they've released exam
70-282, Designing, Deploying, and Managing a Network Solution for a Small-
and Medium-Sized Business to beta testers this week; the exam is available until Sept. 28 (
click
here). Microsoft program managers announced the exam, which
is aimed at implementers of the upcoming Small Business Server 2003, at
the MCP TechMentor conference in San Diego (see "
Small
Business Server Gets First Exam" by Dian Schaffhauser
in the News Archive).
The exam, numbered 71-282 while in beta, is available at both
Prometric and
Vue registration sites. Microsoft offers the exam for free to qualified individual; the company typically sends out invitations to selected subscriber of the MCP Newsflash (click here for details).
Microsoft Press training and exam preparation materials currently do
not exist for Exam 70-282; the publishing group hasn't acknowledged whether
any books are planned. Microsoft Learning is currently developing Course
2395, Designing, Deploying, and Managing a Network Solution for a Small-
and Medium-Sized Business, which is expected later this year.
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Michael Domingo has held several positions at 1105 Media, and is currently the editor in chief of Visual Studio Magazine.