IT Professionals, IT generalists, and help desk professionals who want to learn about SQL Server 2008 are the audience for this course.

This package is targeted at the professional level SQL Server 2008 Database Administrator. It tests your ability to make appropriate design and technology choice considerations for your SQL Server 2008 installations. Candidates for this exam work in an environment in which Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is used for database solutions. Candidates should have at least three years of experience administering databases in an enterprise-level organization and designing, de...

Candidates should have one to two years of experience using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or two to three years of experience using a previous version of SQL Server. Candidates for this exam are IT professionals who work in jobs in which database development is their main area of responsibility, or they work in environments in which databases are central to their primary job roles. These job roles include the following: •IT generalists who work in environments i...

Candidates for this package typically work in an enterprise environment that has more than 500 personal computers and more than 100 servers and mostly create solutions for all types of enterprise issues. Candidates should have experience with the following: •Writing transact SQL queries •Programming the database •Troubleshooting programming objects (for example, stored procedures, triggers, user-defined functions [UDFs], user-defined types [UDTs], ...

Candidates for this certification are IT professionals who seek a leadership role in Windows infrastructure design in a current or future job role, in which they work with Windows Server 2008. Candidates should be experienced in: • Designing Windows Server infrastructures. • Evaluating and recommending new technology solutions. • Serving as an escalation point for infrastructure issues. • Developing client and server best practices for other t...

Candidates for this exam should have a minimum of three years of experience installing, configuring, and administering clients in a Windows networked environment and also have experience deploying operating systems and applications. Candidates should be familiar with the client administration capabilities of Windows Server and with management tools such as the System Center suite of products.

This course is intended for IT professionals who are interested in: •Expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Windows 7 Client. •Acquiring deep technical knowledge of Windows 7. •Learning the details of Windows 7 technologies. •Focusing on the "how to" associated with Windows 7 technologies. Most of these professionals use some version of Windows client at their work place and are looking at new and better ways to pe...

This course is intended for people aspiring to be enterprise-level messaging administrators. Others who may take this course include IT generalists and help desk professionals who want to learn about Exchange Server 2010. People coming into the course are expected to have at least three years experience working in the IT field, typically in the areas of network administration, help desk, or system administration. They are not expected to have experience with prev...

This package is intended for IT professionals and telecommunications professionals who want to learn how to install, configure, manage and maintain a Microsoft Lync Server 2010 environment. These professionals should have at least 3 years’ experience working with unified communications software, including knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Candidates for this certification are IT professionals who want to be known as leaders and problem solvers in a current or future role in an organization that uses Windows Server 2008. Candidates should be experienced in: • Handling day-to-day management of the server operating system, file structure, and directory services. • Handling software distribution and updates. • Monitoring servers • Providing tier-2 troubleshooting support. • Su...

Candidates for this exam design and deploy SharePoint Online and on-premise SharePoint 2010 SP1 infrastructures. These candidates might be senior administrators who act as the technical lead over a team of administrators. Candidates should have a minimum of two years of experience administering, deploying, managing, monitoring, upgrading, migrating, and designing SharePoint solutions. Candidates typically plan, design, and maintain: • Physical topologies and...

Candidates for this exam support end users who run Microsoft Windows 7 in a corporate environment. They should have experience using applications that are included with the operating system, such as productivity applications used in a corporate environment and Microsoft Office applications. Candidates should be able to resolve operating system issues by telephone, email, connecting to an end user's system remotely, or by visiting an end user's desktop. Th...

This course is intended for IT Professionals who are experienced Windows Server 2003 or 2008 administrators and are interested in learning how to administer SharePoint 2010. The course is also intended for part time Business Application Administrators (BAAs) who are engaged in the administering line-of-business (LOB) applications in conjunction with internal business customers.

This package is intended for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 system and desktop administrators who will manage and implement desktop and application virtualization technologies within their networks. The students for this course typically are responsible for implementing their organizations’ desktop and application virtualization, or their information technology (IT) management has directed them to research and/or implement desktop and application virtualizat...

This package is intended for IT professionals who are interested in: •Expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Windows 7 Client. •Acquiring deep technical knowledge of Windows 7. •Learning the details of Windows 7 technologies. •Focusing on the "how to" associated with Windows 7 technologies. Most of these professionals use some version of Windows client at their work place and are looking at new and better ways to p...