Earlier this year Microsoft retired the old certification for BizTalk 2006 and so I was no longer a Technology Specialist.
Well I finally got around to it, took the test, and scored a healthy 91%.
I have received some questions as to how you should prepare for the exam and based on that I have a couple pointers:
If you are an experienced BizTalk developer you really don’t need to study.
This is not a bad thing. It just shows that the exam is made to show that you have working experience and if you do; you will pass.
Read an excellent book
The unequivocal one is of course BizTalk 2010 Unleashed. Use it to read up on things you feel you don’t know; like perhaps the BRE or Wcf-adapters or BAM or Orchestrations or EDI or
Based on what you have used the last year, you should skip those parts and read up on the parts you have not used. If you spent the better part of 2011 developing integrations using advanced maps and Wcf; read up on BAM and orchestrations.
See how others have prepared
The ever productive Steef-Jan Wiggers has written a TechNet Wiki called BizTalk Server 2010 Exam 70-595 Preparation. It is about resources that is available for free from Microsoft. It comes highly recommended.
Buy beer
Do you know someone that is a MCTS for BizTalk 2010? If so; you can invite him/her to some kind of “after work event”. Buy the person some good beers and then start asking nicely about the exam.
As an MCTS you get special training, and these special pills, so you can’t remember specifics about the exam. We can however talk generally about it: What skills are measured? How much is there about BRE compared to other topics? Is it hard?
Just saying
Blog Post by: Mikael Sand