Taking 463 tomorrow

aaronchristenson

I am taking the Data Warehouse exam tomorrow morning. I used the 5 day MS class from TSS Redmond to study for this exam. I sat through the class over a year ago when doing a project for work but did not have time to take the exam, but kept a copy of the virtual machines and the 700 page book and went through each module again over the last few weeks. I am hopeful that I can get past this on the first try, if not I will take it again in a week or so. I will report after and let everyone know how I do.

aaronchristenson

Well round 2 will be next week sometime. The 5 day class does not go into much detail on what was tested on. The 2 sections I need to review are the last two Configure and Deploy SSIS Solutions and Build Data Quality Solutions. The rest I did fairly well on.

Zorodzai

Let us know how it goes and all the best........

N2IT

Absolutely this is cutting edge on this forum!

I'm still grinding through the XML nonsense LOL.

The funny thing about SQL is if I "use" it I can learn it no problem but reading a book and learning concepts is brutal. I use Windowing, CTE's and other aggregate type functions, but I never use XML to load tables or create extracts. I just don't have the need our Architects do all that.

Zorodzai

@N2IT - so true !! It's so much easier to retain what one actually does as part of their day to day work, there are some topic (XML for example) that are such a pain to study because I never have to parse XML as part of my work