Blogs

We’re very excited to announce a free ebook offering from Microsoft Press: Microsoft System Center: Designing Orchestrator Runbooks (ISBN 9780735683044) by David Ziembicki, Aaron Cushner, Andreas Rynes and the System Center series editor, Mitch...

  Are you a student developer? Check out the Imagine Cup competition here Imagine Cup is Microsoft’s premier global student technology competition. You could win $50,000 and a trip to Seattle in July, 2014 for the world finals. Subscribe to the Insiders...

I am very EXCITED to announce that we will beginning this month, subject matter experts (SMEs) who act as lead item writer or participate in alpha review or item selection/standard setting meetings will receive credit for the exam, meaning they will no...

On behalf of the entire IT Academy team, I extend our thanks and appreciation to everyone who tuned in live to this season’s debut webinar— Training with Technology. The webinar is now available to view on-demand—simply click here to...

Microsoft Learning Experiences is in the process of updating the MCSD: Windows Store Apps exams to reflect the upcoming release of Windows 8.1. We are also creating the recertification exams for these two credentials: Recertification Exam for MCSD...

Final reminder to sign up for the September 12th season debut webinar! Also this week: Certified Career Day October 29; Thinkspace: a website for and by student developers...

In light of the upcoming releases of Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 , you may be wondering how the updates will affect the corresponding MCSD: Windows Store Apps certifications. Here are a few things you can count on: As more details emerge...

Imagine the energy of 100 students from around the globe waiting on the edge of their seats to find out if they’ve won a fiercely competitive MOS World Champion title! These motivated students competed against over 344,000 of their peers from 90...

First of all, a HUGE thank you to everyone who shared their "test day tips" either by responding to the post: ‘Tried and True Exam Prep – Part 2: Countdown to Test Day’ or allowing us to interview them while they were in Redmond...

Did you know that Microsoft has a tool to help you know what requirements are necessary to achieve your next certification? This tool is called the Certification Planner and it is found in the MCP Member site. We recently made some significant improvements...

This year's webinar series mirrors the excitement and leverage you get from technology in your everyday work. Each topic and speaker has been chosen to provide what we consider the most useful and timely information—from top-ten classroom enhancements...

Second in line to brain dumps as one of the most irritating threats to a secure testing environment are the proxy testers. A proxy tester will try to take the test for someone else, usually by passing fake credentials in order to get into the exam, or...