The Second Shot promotion is back! Register now for a free second try on a MS certification exam

Certifications, Links, Microsoft Dynamics August 5th, 2008

On Monday, you probably will need that Second Shot.

Some mornings you probably will need that Second Shot.

Good news for those who missed out last time: the Second Shot promotion is back!  This means you have no excuses delaying on that next Microsoft Certification.  Register at the link below, because it’s always good to keep that voucher number handy.

Second Shot landing page
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/secondshot/default.mspx

Full message from Microsoft:

Our Second Shot offer, which gives you a free second chance to pass your IT professional, developer, or Microsoft Dynamics exam, is available again to help you show off your industry-leading IT skills with less stress. Second Shot helps you get certified. We are pleased to make it available to you once again with the help of our worldwide test delivery partner, Prometric. Follow these steps to certify your skills on Microsoft’s latest technologies–the Visual Studio 2008 development system, the Windows Server 2008 operating system, or the Windows Vista operating system, for example–with a free second chance to pass your exam if you need it.

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5 tips to help you pass the CRM 4.0 Applications Exam (MB2-632)

Certifications, Cool tips, CRM 4.0 June 30th, 2008

Huzzah! I passed my CRM 4.0 Applications exam today with flying colors this time!  I’m feeling as elated as Spain winning the Euro 2008 Cup yesterday… minus the jubilation of the whole country, but I’m working on it. ;-)

Thanks to ‘Second Shot’, I was able to try my luck again without consequences. I was glad to have had the opportunity to take it at least once before, to get familiar with the exam questions and get a feel for what the test writers were looking for.

So to assist you in your quest for certification, I’ve outlined five tips that will help narrow down your choices when taking the Applications exam.

5 tips to help pass some questions on the CRM 4.0 MB2-632 exam

  • There is no drag-and-drop functionality in CRM 4.0.  That would be a nice feature to add to the future CRM 5.0, though!
  • Each single Marketing List can only contain one type of record/entity.  So if you’re planning a Marketing Campaign that will include Accounts, Contacts and Leads, you will need to add at least three separate Marketing Lists to the Marketing Campaign.
  • Relationship Roles in CRM 4.0 are very useful for defining relationships that are not so cut-and-dried.  You’ll probably see Relationship Roles come up a few times in the exam.
  • Ask yourself what types of CRM records are synchronized with the Outlook Client, and how to create new records from there.
    Also figure out what records are related and available to each entity.  An example: you wouldn’t go to an Opportunity record to find related Cases.
  • Find out how the Service Scheduler shows or does not show conflicts in the Service Calendar.

Hopefully with these tips, you’ll share the glory too… at least in the Dynamics world.  :-)

Good luck!

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