Passed 70-556

Today I passed the 70-556 cert exam, PerformancePoint, Applications. The test was pretty similar to the beta one I took back in November. A good portion of the test was on business rules and how to configure them. Now that I passed both of these tests, I will be back to posting about SharePoint and some of the most recent things I have been finding in the projects I am working on.

PerformancePoint 70-556 Exam

Tomorrow morning I am going to take the PerformancePoint Applications exam, 70-556. I took the exam back in November when it was in beta and since then have attended a week long class on the product, worked hands on with it, and read and studied books and online documentation. For those of you who are interested in PPS and the 70-556 exam I have provided a list of the materials that I have studied.

Microsoft 70-556 Preparation Guide

Books:

Rational Guide to Planning with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analytics with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Online Documentation:

PerformancePoint Training

PerformancePoint Operations Guide

PerformancePoint Deployment Guide

PerformancePoint Architecture Guide

Results of the PPS Beta Exam

So this past Friday I received the results of my PPS (PerformancePoint Server) beta exam in the mail. I was quite surprised to find that I only missed passing it by 43 points. What surprised me about this was that I took the beta exam back in early November before I had taken any training or really used the product in any depth. Before I took the exam, the only things I had studied were the training pages on the Microsoft site. Now that I have take a training course and worked with the product more closely, I feel confident in my ability to pass the exam when it is released. No news yet as to when that will be but I will keep everyone posted.