New Generation of Microsoft Certification                                                                

Microsoft Certification has proven effective for growing skills and gaining recognition. Now there is a new generation of certifications from Microsoft: more targeted, more cost-effective, and more focused on primary job role and needs. These new certifications for Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 help confirm your skills as an IT Professional or Professional Developer.

The new generation of Microsoft certifications is more specific and targeted to reflect the detail of what you do and to prove your expertise to those who need to know.

Consisting of three series and four credentials, the new generation of Microsoft certifications provides a simpler and more targeted framework for IT managers to validate core technical skills, professional skills, and architectural skills. It also provides professionals in the IT industry with a more relevant, flexible, and cost-effective way to showcase their skills.                                                       More Information

Microsoft Solutions Framework                                                                                                  The Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) provides people and process guidance—the proven practices of Microsoft—to help teams and organizations become more successful in delivering business-driven technology solutions to their customers. The Microsoft Solution Framework version 3.0 updates the Team and Process Models, introduces three new Disciplines (Project Management, Risk Management, and Readiness Management), provides new whitepapers (available online), a new course (1846A: MSF Essentials), public and private MSF newsgroups, and a suite of templates. The Microsoft Solution Framework version 4.0 is a combination of a metamodel which can be used as a base for prescriptive software engineering processes, and two customizable and scalable software engineering processes. The MSF metamodel consists of foundational principles, a team model and cycles and iterations.                                                                                                          More Information                                                                                                       Microsoft SharePoint Portall                                                                                             Microsoft's collaboration and portal product is quite different from the other portal offerings.Like most portal products, SharePoint allows visitors to create custom views of the Web site. This customization can be very simple or very complex, depending on the type and version of the product that is installed. In addition, SharePoint has a powerful collaboration model that is tightly integrated with the Office 2003 suite.

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005       Microsoft’s new Team Suite painlessly replaces the contentious, sequential development paradigm with a fully automated, asynchronous, full-lifecycle application model. Integration with Visual Studio 2005 IDE is impressive. New tools for testers and analytics for project managers really stand out, and team members’ activities and interactions are transparent.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005            SQL Server 2005 vastly improves capabilities on all fronts, including development, integration, management, and BI. Companies will be able to run safer databases, better manage their environment, and finally create a truly 24/7 operation. Among new high-availability features, partial restores will allow databases to be brought online faster after failures, and database mirroring, although not yet officially supported, will provide automatic fail-over for log shipping scenarios.

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