Designers Are Next

Yes that’s right, I will be looking at what to do with some of the Expression Suite of products in my planning for this next fiscal year.  I will be meeting with representatives from the Expression Design team this afternoon to discuss training and certification for that product.

Now, I am able to draw a paycheck, but I have no artistic talents whatsoever.  I do have Expression Design installed, along with the other products in that suite, but have only opened Expression Blend thus far. 

So, it should be an interesting discussion and certainly will help me better understand a product I haven’t used yet.  I am intrigued about the designer audience and how we can meet their needs to create an industry certification for this product and technology.  I look forward to working with the Expression Design team towards this goal.

Stay tuned for the results.

Gerry

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
  Keen to see your expected 3.5 exam release dates

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
  Hi Tony, Which exams are you looking for?  Most of the .NET 3.5 exams are already released with the exception of a couple. Gerry

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
  Good to see it coming down the pipeline. Let me know when the beta is shipping, I have one designer in here who would love a pop at it

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
  Hello Gerry, I believe that Tony was refering MCPD 3.5 exams.

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
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• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
  p.s. I suspect you'll have just as many developers as designers interested in a Blend cert. And I'll be one of them. ;-)

• Anonymous
  January 20, 2009
  Hi Smith, Even at that, there are 12 total exams for .NET 3.5.  I need to know which ones he is waiting for, before I can offer release dates.  :-) Gerry

• Anonymous
  January 20, 2009
  Hi Mark, Thanks for the feedback!  Greatly appreciated to have this kind of information available. Gerry

• Anonymous
  January 20, 2009
  Hello Gerry, I'm waiting for 071-564, 071-505, 071-565 and 071-563 results. ;) Thanks.

• Anonymous
  January 20, 2009
  Hi Gerry, I'm also keen to see a date. I'd like to know when 70-564: ASP.Net Deveoper 305 is comming, I'm preparing for it for some time now. Thanks in advance!

• Anonymous
  January 20, 2009
  Results are typically available shortly after the exam goes live.  Here are the current live dates I have; 70-505 February 2, 2009 70-563 February 3, 2009 70-564 January 29, 2009 70-565 February 23, 2009 Gerry

• Anonymous
  January 21, 2009
  Hi Gerry, Hows things? Just wondering if you know the release date of the above book and if not where I could find out. I would like to prepare for Exam 70-505 and have no idea where to begin without the book. Thanks Isak

• Anonymous
  January 21, 2009
  Hi Isak, Can you be a little more specific as to what book you are referring to>  I don't see on listed above here. Gerry

• Anonymous
  January 21, 2009
  I guess Isak means this one (the self-paced training kit): http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/books/13111.aspx

• Feb 29th

• Anonymous
  January 22, 2009
  Hi Stephen, If that is the case, then your link answers Isak's question.  The page shows the date of February 25, 2009. Thanks Gerry

• Anonymous
  January 23, 2009
  Prometric has published the results for 71-564 PRO: ASP.NET, today.

• Anonymous
  January 23, 2009
  Yup, results are there. I'm so happy because i passed.   I remember that when I passed an exam I used to received a Microsoft mail confirming that, but not this time.

• Anonymous
  January 29, 2009
  Prometric have published results for 71-505 and 71-563.

• Anonymous
  January 30, 2009
  I saw one email come in last week (1/23) telling me I didn't pass some exam. I can narrow it down, and I suspect that it is for 563, but no where in the email does it say what I flunked. The email for a "pass" at least gives me the name of the exam I passed, so I can cross that one off my list of things to wait for. My employer gives bonuses for passing certification exams (we're gold partners).

• Anonymous
  January 30, 2009
  Peter, what prevents you from checking your account at Prometric and find out info about failed/passed exams? As for me, 70-563 is still "Tested", but I hope for the best.

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2009
  Hi Gerry, I was just wondering what your current live dates are. I see in a previous post you said that these were the current live dates at the time: 70-505 February 2, 2009 70-563 February 3, 2009 I can't see 70-505 on Prometric so just wondering if these dates have changed. Thanks Isak

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2009
  Well, well, well. I didn't know one could look up the results on prometric. 563 still shows up as "tested" for me as well, and it was 564 that was "teh fail."

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2009
  Hi Isak, I just posted the updated dates here, http://blogs.msdn.com/gerryo/archive/2009/02/02/status-update-on-exam-release-dates.aspx Gerry