Microsoft cuts E-Learning collections by 90%

Yea I know this isn’t new, but if you’re not aware of it, here you go!

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Get a second chance to pass your Microsoft Certification exam — free offer!

In the real world, you might need more than one chance at certification. With Second Shot, if you do not pass any IT professional, developer, or project manager certification exam on your first try, you can retake the exam without an additional cost.

Register for Second Shot and take advantage of our Career Assist Package—which means you can get any Microsoft E-Learning collection for just US$35.

Sign up for the Second Shot offer today

Career Assist Package: Register for Second Shot and get any Microsoft E-Learning collection for just US$35

Until June 30, 2009, as a part of Second Shot, we are offering a Career Assist Package. Along with enjoying the benefits of Second Shot, you can access a collection of Microsoft E-Learning courses, which provide 8 to 20 hours of online instructional content to help you master a product and prepare for a certification. This offer applies to IT professional or developer e-learning collection titles only. Does not include Microsoft Office or Windows end-user (non-IT) focused collections.

Career Assist is available only in select countries.

See a list of eligible countries/regions

Normally priced up to US$350, these e-learning collections are just US$35 when you register for Second Shot. Limit one per customer.

Note For this promotional offer, once you have activated the discounted e-learning collection it will only be available for 90 days.

In today’s challenging economic times, how do you stand out from the crowd, stay up to date with relevant technologies, and get the top jobs? Becoming a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) is a great start.

Learn more about the Career Assist Package

Register for the Second Shot offer

So, take advantage of this if you’re trying to stay relevant, certified and beyond! :)

Microsoft helps you Thrive in a down market

Welcome to Thrive from Microsoft!

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If you recall past posts about Microsoft and Social Responsibility, this is just another measure of ensuring that our technical future is secure, or if you’re looking for a career change that the resources are available to ensure you have a future in technology.

They have this broken up into several core areas

I'm Thriving

Why yes.. I did go through the entire site, reviewed a lot of the material and even INCLUDED ALMOST ALL OF IT HERE! Yea, I know sometimes people will look at the post, but never visit the site – So here are the goods, visit the site if you’d like, but this is exactly what you’ll see (at this point in time :))  Good luck on there – whether you’re job hunting or retaining your job!

NetApp Certification online tests at Prometric? (Free?!)

Wait, what’s this? I thought these tests were only available at the Prometric Testing Center!

Apparently I am wrong! and just by visiting this site, I’m able to take online tests at Prometric!

Infact, there’s even a whole list of other companies for online testing here as well :)

Serial # Test Name Pass

NS0-050

NetApp Accredited Installation Professional

70%

NS0-101

NetApp Accredited Sales Professional

70%

NS0-101

NetApp Accredited Sales Professional (J)

70%

NS0-102

NetApp Accredited Storage Architect Professional

65%

NS0-102

NetApp Accredited Storage Architect Professional(J)

65%

NS0-060

NetApp Accredited Support Engineer Level 1

70%
  Server Virtualization Accredited Professional  

NS0-201

SVAP: Core Virtualization Technology

61%

NS0-202

SVAP for VMware

61%

NS0-203

SVAP for Citrix XenServer

77%

NS0-204

SVAP for Hyper-V

77%

These exams (as far as I can tell) are Free so long as you pass it the first time! If you fail, it sits at $50.00 for the retake, so I suggest not failing :)

Are you Certifiable? Details of the game EXPOSED!

This is the contest which is a pre-requisite to compete in the “Get On The Bus” contest!

Here is a basic walk-through of the game!

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After using your Live login credentials, login and you’re ready to play!

You’ll be set to play and in my case, welcomed back showing your current achievements!

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I’ll breakdown what each of these achievements are, what they mean and how to get them!

image Triple Threat:
Correctly answer 3 questions in a row
image Speed Demon:
Answer a question right in less than 5 seconds without using a voucher
image Voucher Saver:
Finish a whole episode with at least 5 vouchers left
image Socialite:
Have at least 10 people in your friends list
image Academic Achievement:
Answer a total of 25 questions correctly
image Intellectual Achievement:
Answer a total of 50 questions correctly
image Brainy Achievement:
Answer a total of 100 questions correctly
image Gifted Achievement:
Answer a total of 200 questions correctly
image Rookie Achievement:
Complete a full episode
image Newton Achievement:
Complete a full season
image Einstein Achievement:
Complete the entire IT Professional set of questions
image Turing Achievement:
Complete the entire IT Developer set of questions
image Certifiable Achievement:
Complete all of “ARE YOU CERTIFIABLE”
image Quick Draw:
You are answering questions at lightning speed
image Congratulations:
You have earned vouchers in all 3 mini games
image Congratulations:
You got 10 questions in a row correct

And you may notice that some of these are Greyed out – Seriously, how on earth you get “5 vouchers” in an episode, let alone having vouchers left is beyond me! The max I’ve gotten is 4 vouchers and that is with getting all answers correctly in 1 or less seconds! So I have NO idea what you do there!

Then you play the game, and you get a score like this! and you’re set for the contest!

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Good luck out there, I encourage you to ACT NOW! Before Monday when the contest closes! If you have any questions let me know!

Microsoft DreamSpark offers Free Vouchers for Certification?!

Yea, you heard it right! Microsoft unveils program after program to help get people jobs, keep you in jobs and ofcourse increase education and awareness, which certainly helps in the whole job scenario!

Microsoft DreamSpark

So, let me show you just what DreamSpeak has in store for you!

Well, free training and education, vouchers! books and videos!

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Microsoft IT Academy Student Pass

eBooks - Free Books Learning Snacks - Training Videos

The MCTS Free Voucher program is tied to education and being within the schooling system, so do account for that in the account you login with in order to be able to access and obtain your free voucher!  If you choose any of the various schools, it will show you what the expected address type is to look like (looks like a security risk/flaw to me.. but what’s a free voucher amongst friends! ;))