david.gugg (4/23/2014)
I have been a DBA for 1.5 years, and would love a way to test my knowledge and see where I need improvement. I wouldn't have been able to afford taking the test anytime soon, but I would love to know how I would have fared.
Then you still can't afford it. There is no "open the lab test" - the lab was a carefully constructed series of virtual machines. Microsoft would need to publish a free infrastructure for those, or distribute pre-built Hyper-V VMs with Windows and SQL Server already installed. Never gonna happen.
You have to understand that this is like a medical exam with cadavers involved. There are no free cadavers, and there are no free judges. This isn't a paper-based mark-all-that-apply exam.