March 17^th, 2010

Listen Now – Episode #001

Happy St. Patty’s Day!  There’s nothing better than a certification podcast and a cold, green beer in your hand… Ahhhh, the good life J

Welcome everybody to our first Certification Weekly Podcast by CED Solutions.  My co-host, Sexy White Chocolate, and I are super excited to bring you the latest and greatest in certification news each week.  Check out our “About Mia/About Chris” pages to get the inside scoop on who we crazy people are.

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Certification Weekly is brought to you by CED Solutions.  CED Solutions is one of the largest training and testing centers in North America.  We train and certify on virtually every program from Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, Oracle, EC-Council, PMP, ITIL, SNP, ISC², and many more.  Check out our classes at www.cedsolutions.com.

Listen weekly to participate in our contest!  Part 1 of the contest question will randomly appear in the podcast and part 2 of the contest question will be at the very end.  First person to send in the answer will win a SWEET prize!  Send your answer tochris@techjives.net

Twitter contest:  Follow Chris and me on twitter (twitter.com/thechrispope & twitter.com/MiaHoltzman) to participate in our twitter question contest!  First to send in the answer to our twitter question wins!  Send your answer to chris@techjives.net

Congrats CompTIA, you don’t suck anymore!  After tremendous negative feedback, CompTIA revised their certification renewal policy announced on January 11, 2010. Any current CompTIA A+, Net+, or Security+ certification holders or anyone planning to earn their certs before December 31^st, 2010 are not affected by the renewal policy.  Anyone who sits for A+, Net+, or Security+ certification beginning on January 1^st, 2011 will be required to renew their certification every 3 years. Check out the link below for more details and a letter from Todd Thibodeaux, CompTIA President & CEO:

http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/renewal.aspx

Yeah I failed, SO?! With Microsoft’s Second Shot promotion testers get to retake their exams for FREE before June 30th, 2010.  Any students of CED Solutions before June 30th are automatically eligible for their retake voucher.  Anyone who is not a student of CED planning to take a Microsoft exam before June 30th will need to register at the site below for a second shot voucher before their first attempt at the exam.

http://www.prometric.com/Microsoft/SS_MCP_form.htm?s=ssm

Become a Microsoft Charter Member by passing an exam within its first 6 months of release!

http://www.bhargavs.com/index.php/general/2010/03/charter-member-of-mcitp-enterprise-messaging-administrator-exchange-2010/

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-program-membership.aspx

New CCNP Curriculum and Exams:  Classes and tests now better reflect job requirements of Network Engineers.  Courses that have been revised include ROUTE v1.0, SWITCH v1.0, TSHOOT v1.0.

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-6393

Need some $$ and not sure which direction to go in?  Exchange Server job roles seem to start at $50K!  Check outwww.indeed.com with keyword search “Exchange Server” to see what’s available in your area!

http://www.indeed.com/q-Exchange-Server-l-Atlanta,-ga-jobs.html

Mid-moment with Mia:  Listen to learn why Microsoft exams start with the number ‘70’!

You had me at EHLO!  Exchange 2010 introduces a new way to manage the set of languages available for Exchange through a language bundle pack. The language bundle is delivered as a single downloadable file which includes all localized resources for the server— including Exchange Management Console (EMC) and client (OWA & ECP) interfaces within Exchange.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/02/09/453943.aspx

Leapfrogging from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 – Mad improvements to Exchange 2010 takes the migraine out of migration!

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid43_gci1372236,00.html

Social Stalker 2010 with Outlook 2010 – Take your social media stalking to a new and much more professional level!  Outlooks’ social connector allows users to integrate their social networks with their messaging interface.

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1379572_mem1,00.html?ShortReg=1&mboxConv=searchExchange&RegActivate=&Submit

MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010:  Pass the MCTS 70-662 exam and the PRO 70-663 exam and earn your MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010 certification.  Check out the links below for details on the exams and CED Solutions’ training!

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-662&locale=en-us

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-663&locale=en-us

http://www.cedsolutions.com/334/training/mcitp-messaging-boot-camp

Learning Snacks:  Microsoft has a great website to get information at a glance on majority of their products.  If you’re unfamiliar with a certain technology and want to learn the gist of its capabilities, check this out:

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/format-learning-snacks.aspx#exchange