Be Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)

Being Microsoft Certified is a foundation for your career in the field of technology. Microsoft certification helps you validate your experience and knowledge in using Microsoft products and solutions. Designed to be relevant in today's rapidly changing IT marketplace, Microsoft Certifications help you utilize evolving technologies, fine-tune your troubleshooting skills, and improve your job satisfaction. As students, Microsoft Certification can help you get a good start on your IT career as it also polishes your CV and helps you stand out in your field of interest. In addition, Microsoft Certification is an industry standard that is recognized worldwide—which helps open doors to potential job opportunities. The internet based testing (IBT) delivery platform makes it easier than ever to test and certify an entire classroom anywhere on campus, anytime it's convenient for them - with no classroom or desktop restrictions. All they need is an internet connected computer.

As a student, your first step towards getting Microsoft Certification would be MTA (Microsoft Technology Associate). An MTA certification helps students explore career options in technology, prepare for advanced studies and MCTS exams, and demonstrate fundamental knowledge of hardware or IT infrastructure or software technology. 

 

There are three fields to choose your career: IT Pro, Developers and Database Management. Under these, you can even choose your topic of interest or the one at which you excel. It would be better to take the certification in the field where you want to build your career as this certification is a path to begin your IT career.

 

Microsoft Certification Pathway

As you can see, there are seven fields where you can get certified being a beginner. Then you can also proceed to MCTS certification.

 

To help you get through the certification easily, MIC Nepal is organizing a two-day training programme on the preparation guides for the MTA certification examinations. The examination deadline is the end of this September. However, MIC Nepal is trying to extend the certification till December. The training will be held on fixed dates whereas the examinations can be taken at the time of your comfort (before the end of this September).

The cost for the two-day training is NRs. 1500 including the books and material you will be given for the examination preparation. For the certification exam, which costs USD 80, free vouchers are being given by MIC Nepal for students. So, grab this opportunity of being Microsoft Certified and start your career journey in the field of technology.

 

If you are interested in taking the trainings and examinations, send your name and email address to midu.sht@gmail.com. 

Feel free to post for any queries related to this certification programme.

For more information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-default.aspx

 Thank you!

 

A Report on MSP Applicants Interaction Programme - Day 3

We firstly learnt to set video file as desktop background. This can be done by ‘Windows 7 DreamScene Activator’ application. To set a video as wallpaper, first we have to open the application and then click on ‘Enable DreamScene’ option. Then we can set a video file as wallpaper by right-clicking the video and selecting the ‘Set as Desktop Background’ option. We can also choose to play or pause the video by right clicking on the desktop and selecting required option. This feature can be disabled any time by clicking the ‘Disable DreamScene’ option. The limitations of this method are: (i) only Windows Media Video (.wmv) files can be set as wallpaper and (ii) the sound of the video cannot be played.

The main topic of the discussion was “Career in the field of IT Pro”. Under this topic, we discussed about various technologies and applications which are discussed below. For career in IT Pro, we need to have knowledge on networking, Windows OS, Sharepoint, Database administrator etc.

One of the discussion topics was the difference between Windows Server and Windows 7 Operating Systems. Windows Server is a server side OS where as Windows 7 is a client side OS. In an organization having a number of computers, one of them is made the Server by installing the Windows Server OS which provides facilities to all the other client computers. The server computer has all the necessary applications and facilities and the client computers can access those facilities from the server. The server can share its files with the clients and also send important information. For e.g. in a network of computers, there is only one hardware, say printer. It is linked with the server computer and the server can make it accessible to the other computers in the network. In this way, just a printer will be sufficient for a number of computers. Similarly a server can also provide internet facilities to its clients.

Email server is an application built under Windows Server. It is a Microsoft Windows based SMTP.  If you have a PC network, all the PC's can send and receive email through the server with a single internet dial-up connection. An e-mail server is a computer within your network that works as your virtual post office. An email server usually consists of a storage area where e-mail is stored for local users, a set of user definable rules which determine how the mail server should react to the destination of a specific message, a database of user accounts that the mail server recognizes and will deal with locally, and handle the transfer of messages to and from other mail servers and email clients and also restrict the bandwidth. This provides advanced security for a group of computers in an organization.

There was a light discussion on the topic ‘Business Intelligence’. Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad category of computer software solutions that enables a company or organization to gain insight into its critical operations through reporting applications and analysis tools. BI applications may include a variety of components such as tabular reports, spreadsheets, charts, and dashboards.

We also learnt a concept of Database Management System. It is a collection of data in an organized form. It helps to store large number of data for different categories, for e.g. the marks of students of the whole school in all subjects along with the total and percentage, grouped according to their class. Database is organized in such a way that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated.