did anyone do SQL MCSA certification?

  • Did anyone do MCSA certification .I would like to know how to prepare for those exams as there are three exams for MCSA.which material to refer? which book to refer?are there any online courses for this subject? I would like to know how you cleared your MCSA what are the efforts you have put to pass the exam?

  • Here's my story:

    How I prepared myself for the MCSE certification

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    My blog at https://sqlkover.com.
    MCSE Business Intelligence - Microsoft Data Platform MVP

  • Wrote all 5 (for the MCSE), studied from Books Online as I wrote them well before any books were out.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass
  • GilaMonster (7/25/2013)


    Wrote all 5 (for the MCSE), studied from Books Online as I wrote them well before any books were out.

    You did the whole SSIS, MDS, DQS thing from MSDN? Painful. 🙂

    Need an answer? No, you need a question
    My blog at https://sqlkover.com.
    MCSE Business Intelligence - Microsoft Data Platform MVP

  • Koen Verbeeck (7/25/2013)


    GilaMonster (7/25/2013)


    Wrote all 5 (for the MCSE), studied from Books Online as I wrote them well before any books were out.

    You did the whole SSIS, MDS, DQS thing from MSDN? Painful. 🙂

    Yes, at a fairly high level though, no idea how I passed that exam. Though, if we're being honest that was the only one of the 5 I bothered studying for at all. (wrote the five 2012 exams the same week I wrote my knowledge exam, so studying was directed towards the higher priority)

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

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