Ninja's_RGR'us (7/29/2011)
GilaMonster (7/29/2011)
talkeffect (7/29/2011)
How is Knowledge Exam? Is it like 70-451 and 70-450 or a little bit harder?Try several hundred times harder. It's also significantly more expensive. iirc $500 for the knowledge and $2000 for the lab
Because, I would like to plan this exam(Knowledge+Lab), in a week.
I assume you've watched all the videos here (http://www.sqlskills.com/T_MCMVideos.asp) and read all of the material here (http://www.sqlskills.com/MCM.asp) and understand all of it perfectly. If not, you really shouldn't be wasting your money trying. The pass rate among the SQL MVPs in the early part of the year was somewhere around 40%.
How many hours of study are you going to put in to even attempt it?
Once I get my Master's thesis (M.Sc) submitted, probably 2-3 months. That's solid studying, 5 evenings a week plus weekend.
I'm fairly strong on the core database engine, storage engine, query processing, etc. What I'll need to focus on mainly is stuff like clustering, mirroring, service broker, CLR, XML, the stuff that's not so core, that I haven't had much experience on.
Oh, and to put things in perspective, I wrote 70-432, 70-433, 70-450, 70-451 cold, no studying at all, and I got over 850 for all of them.
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