Get ready for Microsoft 70-443 exam with uCertify PrepKits

June 11th, 2008

Why get certified?

Microsoft Certification exams are proven indicator of your knowledge in certain IT area.Obtaining a Microsoft Certification not only validates your expertise with Microsoft products and platforms, but also demonstrates your skills and capabilities to current and future employers and peers.It also helps you to stay in touch with latest technologies and products in the IT industry.

Get ready for Microsoft Certification Exams

What do you need to get certified? There many ways to get a knowledge and necessary skills. But, how much time will you spend on learning? What should you study to pass your exam? How to be sure you posses all the information? The most efficient and simple way is to rely on preparation kits. These kits can help you prepare by identifying areas for improvements, providing links to recommended training resources, simulating realistic tests. In the article I will review preparation kit from my favourite vendor uCertify.

About uCertify.com

The uCertify.com company was launched in summer of 1997 and focused on Microsoft’s MCSE, MCSD and MCDBA. Quickly, the website became popular among IT students and professionals who loved the innovative products from uCertify.com. Today, the company offers a wide range of IT certification preparation products from Microsoft, Oracle, CompTIA, CIW, Sun and other leading vendors. The company has doubled its revenues every year since the year it was formed and is a trusted name in IT training industry.

They offer demo exams via downloads that will give you a feel for how their exam engine works. When you purchase an exam, they come with free upgrades for a year and a money back guarantee should you fail the exam. You can use a credit card, Google Checkout or PayPal to purchase their exams. To find out more about the M70-443 exam from uCertify.com check out the following web page: http://www.ucertify.com/exams/Microsoft/70-443.html

Preparation Kit for 70-443 Exam

Before purchasing an exam the user is able to download and install a demo version. It contains a small number of questions, articles and other information. So, you will be able to evaluate the product to suite your needs before buying it, which is very convenient.To get the full version of kit you only need to enter license key provided by the sales department of a company.

A testing application will provide a user with a number of choices:

  • Diagnostics tests - will help you to estimate your knowledge
  • 3 practice tests with realistic questions which are very helpful during studying
  • A Final test
  • Study notes
  • Articles about exam objectives
  • etc.

The preparation kit will provide you with readiness report so you will be aware about your current knowledge.

Test history is an important tool which you could use to track the progress.

What I personally like in uCertify kits is that they are not just test simulators but valuable advisers and a study guides. Articles and notes contain many important information about exam objectives. An example of the article in uCertify is shown on the screenshot below:

It describes different types of Joins supported by Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Questions

The preparation kit contains powerful testing engine. It has all types of questions of Microsoft Certification exams:

  • single choice
  • multi choice
  • questions with exhibits
  • interactive questions

Each question has a detailed explanation of correct and wrong answers. The user is able to Bookmark certain question, rate it, tag. After completing testing the preparation kit will provide you with a detailed results report.

Conclusions

The uCertify.com M70-443 PrepKit is a complete solution to get ready for advanced Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Certification Exam. It has a comprehensive set of questions, articles, notes and other information. It covers 100% of exam objectives and helps you to track the progress of your studying. I would recommend uCertify products as a main source of information while preparing for a certification exam.

Buying

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Video from Imagine Cup projects

May 29th, 2008

I made some video clips available from Imagine Cup projects I have been participated. Enjoy!

Footstep

Fenestra

See U silverlight control

May 21st, 2008

Silverlight control created as a part of See U project had been added to silverlight.net community gallery:

Silverlight control

The control is able to retrieve the list of photos from a web site using See U integration API and show them as thumbnail’s slideshow. While loading an image the transparent download progress is shown.

See Ukraine - how much do you know about Ukraine?

May 17th, 2008

Recently I have launched a web site - See U:

See U

See U is about Ukraine, photos and video from Ukraine. However, the user is able to post her(his) photo (or video) from any country. The web application is integrated with LiveID, LiveSearch and Flickr services. The user is able to search and preview photos, comment them. Web site will support three languages for UI - Ukrainian, Russian and English. I am thinking about using automated translation services (such as google translate) to perform translation for user comments and photo description. But this is for future…

See U - is a demo project for student’s contest: http://webcup.com.ua. I have created it for my joy, hope you will enjoy it too!

Logo See U
See U
Short Video from See U

Thinking about special values

April 17th, 2008

Is it good to have something like that:

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To me -1 or -99999 is not a good way to express absence of item. Why? Because this is syntactical level which is rather concrete - which means it could change in unexpected way.

In case the function/method would return special values it will be better to have someting like this:

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then:

if ( table.IndexOf(column) == -1)
{
return ColumnIndex.NullIndex;
}

Looks better, but again not perfect. This approach now using semantical differences between ordinary index and NullIndex.
Another step - distinguish special empty class:

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But this is also not perfect…..