Certification Prep – The 20 Minute Workout

CompTIA is looking for IT professionals who have extensive experience in the field of PC troubleshooting, repair and support to be involved in the next update for the CompTIA A+ certification exam. The full details are below, as taken from their website. If you would like to be considered as a Subject Matter Expert, their application form is available on their website. Here is the body of the call for SMEs: PC Repair/Troubleshooting Experts needed for New A+ Exam Workshop CompTIA is looking for IT professionals who have extensive experience in the field of PC troubleshooting, repair and support to be involved in updating our CompTIA A+ certification exam. During this "Job Task Analysis" exam development workshop, the first of three workshops, subject matter experts (SMEs) will help determine the exam's target audience, outline main competencies and objectives to be covered in the test, and weight different topics. SMEs will validate the skills and knowledge r

I subscribe to many different email lists as I find that when I can target the email I get to something that is topical for me I can tolerate all that spam I get a little better (at least the stuff I’ve signed up for I am asking to have sent to me). Virtualization Review sent along an email regarding a half day seminar that is being sponsored by Virtacore Systems /PHD Virtual, Zerto and Veeam with David Davis giving the keynote. David Davis is THE go to guy for Virtualization topics and vSphere Training. He is an author at Train Signal for a number of their VMWare / vSphere training suites. The forum will focus on Disaster Recovery in VMware Environments on July 20, 2011 Time: 9 am PDT / 12 noon EDT David’s segment will cover: The top five DR challenges VMware oriented IT organizations face today What you can do to minimize disaster potential as information and data proliferates Typical DR scenarios faced in a virtual infrastructure DR best practices in virtualized environments Tips

As some of you are aware, I am presently studying for Exam 70-669: TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Desktop Virtualization During the course of this and having a day job I've had to reschedule this exam once already, pushing it out to July 25. I hope I am ready for it now because much to my surprise there is a new rescheduling and cancellation policy in effect: "Please note that effective July 15th 2011 our rescheduling and cancellation policy has changed. In order to provide all Microsoft candidates with a broad selection of convenient times and locations in order to test, fees will now be applied for examinations that are rescheduled / cancelled with less than 15 days' notice. We therefore encourage you to keep your original appointment, or if necessary reschedule or cancel more than 15 days out from your appointment date. Please visit www.prometric.com/microsoft/reschedulecancellationpolicy for more information and www.prometric.com/microsoft/reschedulecancellation/faqs for

I have been reading articles from Fred Langa over the past two decades. His articles have been beyond insightful and extremely helpful. His “Langa Letter” emails were a staple in my inbox for years. His most recent article “Win7′s no-reformat, nondestructive reinstall” is another big winner. Since Windows 95, there have been “secret” ways to re-install your Windows operating system leaving much of your data and installed application base intact. For the most part these re-installs are effectively unsupported and relatively unknown. I don’t remember where I learned my earlier re-installs from for Windows 95 and 98 but I do remember reading his article for Windows XP . Fred has written a great article that outlines this entire process for Windows 7 and it can be found on the Windows Secrets website; it is titled “Win7′s no-reformat, nondestructive reinstall.”