The document provides tips for taking a Microsoft certification exam: eat for energy, avoid distractions, listen to your first answer, read questions fully, shake off mistakes, maintain a steady pace, use process of elimination. It explains that exam objectives, courses, study guides, and the exam itself may be produced by different people and not fully aligned, so multiple study methods are recommended. The author has experience writing exam objectives and materials as well as passing over 100 Microsoft exams.

3. • Eat for energy

4. • Avoid drinking too much
• Avoid going to the bathroom during the test

5. • Listen to your first answer, try to stop questioning yourself

6. • READ THE FULL QUESTION!

7. • Shake off a bad question or answer

8. • Don’t go too fast, but don’t go slow either

9. • Process of elimination

10. • Four things are produced by Microsoft
1. The exam objectives
2. A Microsoft Official Curriculum course
3. A Microsoft Exam Prep Guide (you can buy on Amazon)
4. The Actual Exam

11. 1. The exam objectives
1. I have been on the team that has written these for other products and courses
2. A Microsoft Official Curriculum course
1. I have written several courses
3. A Microsoft Exam Prep Guide (you can buy on Amazon)
1. I wrote the book (1st and 2nd edition) for Developing Azure Solutions
4. The Actual Exam
1. I wrote part of this exam and other exams
5. Test Taking
1. I have taken over a hundred exams from Microsoft. I’ve been Microsoft certified since 1997. Guess what my pass rate is?

12. • These four things are probably not written by the same
people
• First the Exam Objectives are written, usually in a
collaboration between members of the product team, some
hand-selected instructors and consultants, and a third-party
company
• They might sit physically in a room and discuss what should
be covered on an exam

13. • Those people also might write the other three things, but
they probably won’t. Other people will produce those
artifacts based on their interpretation of the exam objectives
• This means that reading the exam prep book or taking the
courseware is likely not enough to help you pass the exam.
• The people who wrote the courseware may have never taken
the exam
• The exam might not have even been produced while the courseware was being written
• But they were all written off of the same set of objectives• T

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