Certification Prep – The 20 Minute Workout

Originally released in 2008 the 83 dash series of exams was introduced by Microsoft to replace the standard format of exams that had been delivered by the 70 dash series. The 70 dash series of exams, like 70-680 for Windows 7, Configuring, are set up as multiple choice, hot area, sort and order type questions in a standardized format. Very little has changed in these exams over the past 12 or so years. (My first Microsoft exam was 70-064 Implementing and Supporting Windows 95). The 83 series was supposed to be a change up in the test delivery by offering the examinee part of the exam as lab based. There are still some traditional 70 dash based questions but a good portion of the exam format is lab based. At some point the exams were on hold, as you can note as evident from http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=83-640&locale=en-us where they push you back to the 70-640 exam Having said that, there are posts on the Born to Learn blog http://borntolearn.msle