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New BizTalk Competency Exam Debuts
Exam released at private sales partner summit in Seattle.
Microsoft released another "partner competency" exam this
week: Exam 74-135, Developing E-Business Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server
2004, was released Monday, January 17, but the exam made its formal debut Tuesday
at Microsoft's Envision Conference, a summit of the company's sales and channel
partners, which is taking place this week in Seattle.
According to information published on the guides for similar exams released
late last year, partner competency exams "validate that individuals in a partner
environment are efficient and capable of deploying multifaceted IT solutions
to their customer with skills across multiple Microsoft products and technologies."
These exams also do not qualify test takers as Microsoft Certified Professionals.
To find out more about the new partner competency exams, see the earlier news
report, "New Exams Target Competencies," at http://mcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=755.
To find out more about the Microsoft Certified Partner program, click
here (Microsoft Passport registration is required for access); for Microsoft
Competencies, click
here. (As this report was being posted, the exam objective guide did
not appear on the Microsoft Learning site; a link to it will be provided when
it goes live on that site.)
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