Tips to become Microsoft Certified Professional

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Basic of What and who is Microsoft certified Professional?

  • A Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) is an individual who completes a professional certification program by Microsoft. 
  • Individuals will become a Microsoft certified professional as soon as you pass one of the professional certification exams offered by Microsoft.
  • It is a certification that validates IT professional and developer technical expertise through rigorous, industry-proven, and industry-recognized exams. 
  • MCP exams cover a wide range of Microsoft products, technologies, and solutions.
  • Microsoft certified professionals are certified individuals who specialize in Microsoft information technology programs and applications.

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Once we have successfully completed the Exam..:). We will receive the certificate from prestigious Microsoft like above.

Roadmap for Exams :

We can download the full roadmap for the exams, in the Microsoft official pages links which are given below.

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Source: Microsoft

Why we need Certification and its benefits?

  • As we know, in the fast-growing field of information technology, where technical knowledge and new technologies are consistently growing, earning Microsoft certification show that the developer possess up-to-date knowledge and skills that meet industry standards worldwide.
  • Becoming certified also gives you access to the Microsoft Certified Professional member site that offers an introduction to career resources, interaction with other certified professionals and continuing education offered by Microsoft.

Benefits:

  • Certification Planner Track your progress and view options for completing your certification
  • Certificate Manager View, download or purchase paper copies of certificates for the Microsoft Certifications you earn.
  • Official transcript download and sharing tool
  • Certification logos Download official certification logos.
  • MCP store Purchase apparel and accessories with certification logos.
  • MCP community Make connections with your peers through the Born to Learn blog.
  • Promotional offers Access special offers on Microsoft training and certification products and discounts.
  • Member resources Find training or evaluation software, look for job opportunities and much more.

How can we prepare for the Certification Exams?

In any exams either it is university exams like Anna university, madras university or the exams like Microsoft or oracle it is always important to first take a look at the official page (since they have authority to change information). Just FYI, While I was Preparing, I used to load the below page everyday to ensure that nothing has changed like cost, syllabus and everything remain same every time...:)

Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-list.aspx

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Source: Microsoft

Once you have clicked the above link, then it will be redirected the below page.

Source: Microsoft

Make sure to select the appropriate exam from the list provided, then you will be redirected to the important page, Where you will find all the required official information had been posted including cost, syllabus, resources and various question types.

Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/learning/exam-70-483.aspx

Here, you can also find the excellent jumpstart videos, Microsoft certification prep talk, various communities like (Born to Learn), Exam 70483 wiki and much more.

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Other Useful Resources:

Resource 1:

While preparing, see one of the excellent Video by Christopher Harrison**,** which gives the Overall Picture of what exactly this exam is all about and an idea of how can we choose our correct answer.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/mcpexamprep/70-483-Programming-in-C

Resource 2:

Link: http://returnsmart.blogspot.in/2015/04/mcsd-web-applications-c-option.html

It will be very useful to the folks those who prepare for the exam to have a day by day Plan. Here he has divided the entire chapter and given brief details of that to complete that in just less than a 20 days.