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I Passed the Exam
Through grueling cramming and my job literally on the line, I passed a Microsoft Certification exam today with a score of 968/1000 to become a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)!
In the short term this doesn’t really mean much other than I get to keep my job and have something else to finally add to my resume. In the long term, however, it can lead to bigger and better things as the current company I’m at pays for our exams and with enough exams I can most likely get a pay grade as well.
… it’s a whole other story if I want to do this right away or wait a bit. Odds are I’ll wait a few months until I get my feet more grounded into the job and pick up a bit more experience because as much “fun” as it is cramming for exams, it’ll be easier once I have some real life experience on the stuff I’m testing for.
Oh, for anyone interested I passed the easiest of all the Microsoft Certification exams, 70-270 aka the Windows XP exam. I have to admit, while studying I learned a shit load of stuff I never knew was possible in Windows XP. Definitely nothing worthwhile for the average home user but a lot of goodies for administrators or tech-geeks like myself. For example, although this is something I picked up years ago, Windows XP Pro allows for one hosted website under IIS (basically the program that handles servicing webpages… think like apache); great if you’re a Windows Web Dev and need to test your application before going live and accidentally breaking something 
Posted by moyism 
May 2008
18 Responses to “I Passed the Exam”
Vodak Says:
May 17th, 2008at
11:51 pm
Though I’ve never commented on your blog before I am a regular reader. Congratulations on the passing of the exam.
go bigger and better. go CCNA or RHCE =]
bj0rN Says:
May 18th, 2008at
1:51 am
CONGRATS!
Adun Says:
May 18th, 2008at
1:55 am
Congrats on getting certified. But I thought you would’ve gone for something a bit more intense than WindowsXP. I myself am going for a certification in Adobe ColdFusion in a few months as my boss wants me certified. It’ll definitely look good on the resume and I’m sure I’ll learn some of other that I don’t already know.
Rin Says:
May 18th, 2008at
1:56 am
Congrates on passing…
Exams scare me. When I go to an exam, I freeze up and forget everything I studied for the past 2 weeks…
Zyl Says:
May 18th, 2008at
1:56 am
Congratulations! More (future) money to burn on the altar of the goddess of anime spending!
Deranged Says:
May 18th, 2008at
2:03 am
Don’t go CCNA… that was so sinfully boring for me, except the subnetting and wildcard masks and Access control lists but the rest D:
Grats! now reward yourself (and us) with a new wallpaper!.. please
kyouray Says:
May 18th, 2008at
7:04 am
congratz !
Fisherman Horizon Says:
May 18th, 2008at
7:46 am
Congratulations!!!!
grats. I passed the CCNA a few months ago right before they changed it to the new exam. My co-worker had to retake the new version but he managed to pass it ^^
which certifications you go for all depend on what direction you want to move your career in. personally I’m eyeballing the various SuSE certifications that Novell has going since that is my main line of work currently.
Kesenaitsumi Says:
May 19th, 2008at
4:38 am
テーストおめでとう！
And can I ask you how old are you and are you a computer engineer?
Crusader Says:
May 19th, 2008at
10:50 pm
Congratulations on passing I trust that the Spice, err…money will flow! So another thing to add to the Moyism book of escaping poverty, get a raise…
yinmaster Says:
May 20th, 2008at
11:16 am
Congrats! So I assume you’re a software engineer?
Interesting though, I didn’t know the IT field is so test intensive. The above discussion sounds as if collecting certifications can almost qualify as a favorite pastime.
ritchan Says:
May 29th, 2008at
6:19 am
Post more about what you learned in that course. Let’s see what the pros learn.
Joey Says:
May 31st, 2008at
1:53 pm
Congratz! and thanks for the awesome post!
Congrats - now you can buy more consumer products
Well, If you finish the 270 exam then you have one of the smaller Windows XP exams…
There is also 271 and 272. Those are for the real Windows XP. Those 2 exams go deeper into the stuff… If you get the 271 and 272 then you are a MCDST (Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Tech….)
If you go for a MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) then you will need to complete at least 2 more exams. (70-290 and 70-291)
Those 2 will learn you how you can administrate/controll a Windows Server 2003.
After that you can also go for MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)
P.S. Good job on passing the exams
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