SQL Server 2012 Beta Exams (3 of 7)

Apr 2

2012, Learning

The day after April Fools I find myself at the testing center again to take my third of 7 SQL Server 2012 beta exams. Today’s entree is 71-461: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

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Comments

Magnus Ahlkvist

April 4th, 2012 at 1:49 AM

Did you pass the exam? Which other two exams did you take?

Compared to their 2008 siblings – how tough are these exams?

I’m taking exams 71-461 and 71-464 next week.
Todd Robinson

April 5th, 2012 at 11:21 PM

The beta exams won’t be graded for 6-8 weeks so I won’t know if I passed or failed for a few months. I can’t give a fair comparison until I receive my pass/fail notification. I will say that there are new question types that I haven’t seen before, where you can actually drag and drop items and order them correctly. These questions may appear hard at first, but actually they are really good exam questions in that as long as you’ve worked with the product before, knowing the order of the steps is pretty trivial. Anyone who actually has been working with SQL Server 2012, especially since CTP, shouldn’t have any difficulty with the exams provided they mastered the 2008 ones. Good luck Magnus on your exams!