The MCSE test is considered a difficult exam. Many have tried but only a few survived. This is probably one of the reasons why a passer becomes a valuable asset to the company or to the industry. The following are some of steps on how to pass the MCSE certification test:

1. Select a MCSE certification test that suits you: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows 2000
2. Sign up for training. Microsoft requires an applicant for a MCSE certification to undergo training. You can enroll in their boot camp or may find a reputable company who has a Microsoft boot camp. Follow with diligence and disciple the instructions of the course.
3. Get all the required PrepKits : a MCSE Certification Test Prep software, simulator and the needed readings and practice exam. Find a simulator that suits you. Make sure that it has study guides that has sample questions and answers that may be similar to those in the real exams.

4. Read other MCSE books online or on hard copy. Buy the latest or most recommended books and other materials. Find second hand from eBay or other networking sites. Usually those who have passed the exams would just sell off their stuff after.

5. Study, study, study. There is no replacement for study. Take note of the key areas and topics to be mastered. Adopt a schedule of studying and map out the topics throughout the period you’ve given yourself for review. To enhance better concentration, find a place in your home where you could concentrate. It is important that you put all your materials and hardware needed for the review in that area. Just make sure it is no one disturbs that area. In all directed efforts towards a goal discipline is very important.

6. During the last weeks of preparation devote your time to practice exams. Familiarize yourself with the exam set-up. By this time your study schedule should be more relaxed.

7. Pray. Always devote time to meditation and prayer. For non believers, taking a break to meditate can renew the energy of your body. Like prayer, you could detoxify your head by adopting a mental exercise that could relax the brain and could invite positive energies.

About the Author:

This article was written by David Graham who recommends SelfTest Engine for MCSE Certification Preparation.

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Cisco Certifications are official documents attesting factual competencies of IT professionals that uses Cisco Systems products. This are obtained through five levels of tests administered by Pearson VUE, as follows:

Entry Certification- This level is the lowest Cisco certification called Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) and the gateway towards the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Certification. CCENT covers basic networking knowledge. CCENT certified professionals can install, manage, maintain and troubleshoot a small enterprise network, and basic network security.

Associate Certifications – This second level covers the CCNA and CCDA Cisco (Certified Design Associate) certification, and divides Cisco Certifications into separate subject matter paths. CCNA validates the ability to install, configure,operate, and troubleshoot medium-size enterprise level router and switched networks. This also includes implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in WAN (Wide Area Network). The subject matter paths under this category are the CCNA Security, CCNA Voice, and CCNA Wireless. While the CCDA certification validates the ability of a professional to do design switch or routed networks or Local Area Networks, WANs and broadband services.

Professional Certifications – This third level called the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) validates the ability of a professional to install, configure and troubleshoot converged LAN and WAN with 100 or more end devices. A CCNA certification is pre-requisite to obtaining and maintaining a CCNP. It has separate subject areas under this category, namely: Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP), Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP) and Cisco Certified Voice Professional (CCVP).

Expert Certifications – This is the highest level of professional certification and the hardest to obtain in the world. It has two subject areas, namely: Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE). CCDE validates an IT professional’s ability to assess advanced Network Infrastructure Design Principles and Fundamentals for large networks. There are only 20,810 people with active CCIE certifications in the world as of January 6, 2010.

Architect – This is a new level called Cisco Certified Architect Certification (CCA) which exceeds the skills level of the CCIE. The test for this level commenced only in January 2010. This recognizes the architectural expertise of network designers who can sustain the growing complex of global networks in organizations.

Why bother for a Cisco Certification?

1. Cisco Certification is Prestigious – Cisco tests was able to reach the status of prestige and to be able to pass and be issued with a certification not only verifies your skills in networking development but also increases your personal and professional confidence in your career. It is not easy to achieve a Cisco Certification and that those who usually pass the tests are those who have extensive experience in the field. Thus, having such certification ensures the organization as well that they have the best man or woman for the job.

2. Cisco has a large User Market – As a holder of a Cisco Certification, you are assured of a huge market for your skills. Cisco dominates in the data-networking equipment and software market especially in the United States of America. It has generated $35.1 billion in revenue in 2009 despite the economic slump. Its advantage allows them to capitalize on the increasing demands for more advanced and sophisticated technology throughout the world. Although it has not captured a big share in China, which is considered today as one of the strongest market in the world, Cisco is confident on its credibility in its resource and flexibility of its technology.

3. Preference to Cisco Certification holder – Employment opportunities are higher when you are a holder of a Cisco Certification. It’s prestige also spells out credibility and reliability.

4. Cisco Certification is the most updated – A Cisco Certification guarantees that your knowledge and skills are updated. As the validity of the certification lasts only for three years, you are continuously challenged to get recertification exams for updating. If you want to continue being marketable, you are guaranteed that Cisco can continue validating your skills level as technology updates, as well.

5. Cisco offers a clear path for career development – The Cisco Certification levels of validation has been developed for progressive competencies. Since it tests one’s ability on practical implementation of skills, it could also define the kind of job that a certain level can perform as well as it prepares the person to the next level of competency(ies). It also offers a wide array of subjects for the professionals to choose from.

Tomy is guest blogger and recommends SelfTestEngine as Exams Preparation Tool for Exams like 640-802 and 70-290.

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There are several methods of converting the PDF document format to Word document and then back to PDF documents. You can open the Portable Document Format directly in Word document. This can be done by installing Acrobat Reader on the system. A person may also find PDF files without restrictions. You can easily copy and paste the information in the Word document from these PDF files for using the content somewhere else. However, when you want to update the information in the PDF files you cannot edit it as the file becomes non-editable in the content. In such cases, the converter tools may prove to be helpful. You can convert the PDF document into Word documents and update the data. During the process of conversion the original formatting remains intact.

An efficient way to convert PDF to Word document will help a lot. If you have more than the occasional need to convert PDF to Word files, downloading and installing Advanced PDF Converter is a fast and simple approach.

The whole conversion process is very easy; you don’t even need to learn how to use it.

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10. Make your reading bookmarks stand out
If read-later services aren’t your thing, your browser’s bookmark bar can be a convenient place to stash articles and posts you plan to getting around to. You can do what Lifehacker reader leftymcrighty does, though, for better placement: reduce your permanent bookmarks (email, search sites, banking, etc.) down to icons by removing the names, and let your other bookmarks, with titles, serve as a reading list. Simple, no software required, and bound to get you reading more, lest your bookmark bar clutter up too much.

9. Read while working out
If the weather or convenience put you on an exercise bike, elliptical, or other machine where you’ve got little to do but stare ahead, it’s not that hard to get more self-improvement done by reading at the same time. This Instructables post on a handlebar-mounted book holder shows that nearly any model can be fitted with a cheap, easy-to-affix book stand. (Original post)

8. Speed up your reading
You should savour clever fiction. Your average memo, however, can and should be hacked through at a faster pace. Speed reading guide Kris Madden explains in the video above how voicing out “A-E-I-O-U” or “one, two, three, four” as you read actually cancels out your subconscious tendency to read with your larynx, just below the audible level. This not only moves you quickly through the text, but provides a more visual, memorable read. There are plenty of apps on the web, too, that can help you speed through a particular text and learn to do it on any text: Spreeder, WordFlashReader, and ZAP Reader are just a few. (Original post)

7. Read Better on iPhones with Stanza
The Kindle’s great, we’re sure the Nook is a proper reader, and, sure, Sony’s device is good at what it does. But when it comes to beautiful presentation of digital reading on a small screen, Stanza’s got it all over those clients, at least on the iPhone or iPod touch. It has its own book store, offering copies of popular contemporary works, along with quite a few sources to grab free historical works, like Shakespeare’s complete works, Edgar Allan Poe, and whatever else you’re looking to get educated on.

6. Find your next read
Not all of us have a local book shop staffed by the most knowledgeable and well-read workers on Earth. For recommendations on what you’d like, based on what you’ve just finished, we can turn to many spots on the net. What Should I Read Next? is a straight-up recommendation service, fed by the reading list you provide. WhichBook is a bit more subjective, asking you to move sliders to indicate how much of any element (monsters, dystopia, romance—oh my!) you want in your reading. For the social take on what your friends have read, are reading, and recommend, try BookArmy or the veritable GoodReads. (Original posts: WhichBook, BookArmy).

5. Convert any file to an PDF eBook
If you’ve got a scaned file, or an Powerpoint（.ppt）you ripped yourself, you’d probably want your ebook reader to save your place as you make your way through the narrative. Starting with Tweak PDF converter, it’seasy to convert files to PDF format, complete with high speed and accurate.Tweak All To PDF 3.0 converts any printable files to PDF. Word, Excel, PPT, HTML, images, Notepad files, etc. It helps you to easily get a PDF document from these files to enjoy the PDF advantages. The converter is reliable and the conversion is safe with no data lost, formatting distortion, etc. The program automatically creates a short-cut button in the menu, handier for the conversion.

4. Find instructional and how-to PDFs
Some how-to projects and tasks only require a single web page of instructions. Other times, you’d really like a deeper read. Search PDF is a custom Google search that brings back only PDF files, opens them in Scribd’s no-software-required viewer, and hones the search in on tutorials, instructions, and manuals. For alternative PDF finders, there’s the ebook search at PDF Search Engine and simply using filetype:pdf in a Google search. (Original post)

3. Collect articles with Instapaper & Read It Later
Which mark-for-later, read-anytime app reigns supreme? Depends on how you like to use them.Read It Later tightly integrates with Firefox through its extension, which also hosts your want-to-read articles offline, but also offers bookmarklets for every browser, including the iPhone. Instapaperseems to have the more focused iPhone app, but offers the same multi-browser bookmarklets. Come to think of it, they’re both pretty great in their own way at making lengthy web reading accessible anywhere.

2. Get new books for old ones
Unless you only read leather-bound first editions, there are probably a few books laying around your shelves that could find a better life in a book swap. The internet abounds with places to do it: Zunafish, currently offline but offering $US1-per-book trades,PaperBackSwap, and the free BookMooch are just a few. If getting a new book isn’t necessary, you could simply tag your book with a BookCrossing tagand watch it travel the world. (Original posts: BookMooch, BookCrossing)

1. Make web text more eye-friendly
Instapaper and Read It Later, mentioned above, do a decent job of converting news articles and blog posts to a stripped-down, text-forward format. With customizable browser bookmarklets, though, you get your reading exactly how you want it.Readability is an early and popular entrant in the category, while Clippable and Readable App aim for even more minimalism and customisation. If you’re an RSS fan, Readefine Desktop, an Adobe Air app and web project, can lay out your daily feed reading in newspaper-style columns with minimal interruption. (Original posts: Readability, Readability 2/Clippable, Readable App, Readefine)

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If you want to remove the annoying Nav-Bar on your Blogspot Blogger, follow this simple Step given Below…

Blogger navbar allows users to easily navigate to other random blogs and it also has a feauture to search the blogs ,and mark any blog as Spam or Flag it.
So,now you have a clear idea of what really a blogger navbar is.So, why so many people prefer to just remove the navbar inspite of the feautures it has like search,etc.Many people think that, it spoils the look of the blog,especially if your blog has differnet subtitle layout which looks too obvious to see for a visitor.Well, let me come to the actual point on how to disable or hide your blogger navbar.

Below is the step-by-step procedure on how to do it with photos to make it easy to understand.

1.Sign in to your blogger account and click the layout button next to your blog name

2.Next,click the edit html tab as shown in the below picture.

3.Add the below html code as specified in the below picture.

#navbar {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}

4. Save the changes.

Now, you can see your blog without that navbar(this tip can only hides the navbar,it doesn’t completely delete it).If you want the navbar to appear again,just remove that code and save the changes.
If you have any doubts,regarding this post,don’t hesitate to ask.You can ask your doubts via comments to this post.

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F9 Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.
F11 It initiates a call with your selected contact.
F12 It cancels a call.

Esc It closes the current window.
Alt + F4 It closes the current window. (same effect with Ctrl+F4)
Alt + Esc It Minimize Gtalk windows one by one.
Windows + ESC Open Google Talk (if it’s minimized, or in the tray)

Tab Switches to next opened gtalk window. (same effect with Ctrl+tab and Shift+tab)
Shift + Tab The same thing does that Tab but in reverse.

(The below 4 shortcuts works only for text field in Google talk main window to search contacts. I wonder who uses them? )

Ctrl + Shift + L Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbers
Ctrl + E It centralizes the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + R It justifies to the right the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + L It justifies to the left the selected text, or the current line.

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1. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or CTRL+ALT+DEL
2. Go to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes, you will see the Set Priority option. (as shown in following screenshot.)
   
3. Default is normal, change it to…
   • AboveNormal, High, Realtime to increase process priority OR
   • BelowNormal, Low to decrease process priority!

FAQ:
Q. Why I need this?
Ans: When multiple programs are running, there may be few dear programs. Like some anti-virus scanning is running along with some movie, you will get smooth decoding of movie by increasing its process priority and/or decreasing process priority of antivirus.

Note: If only a single program is running then it may not get benefit from changing priority!

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• Download TeaShark browser. Its free and being JAR file it can be installed on most handsets.
• Open it from your mobile and select AirTel Live as access point.
• Thats it! Open any site from TeaShark and you won’t be charged anything.

Note for the first time, when TeaShark starts, it may take more than one minute to initialize. Also this one time initialization may fail many times. But don’t loose your heart!

Here are some mobile sites…

• Gmail: m.gmail.com
• Orkut: m.orkut.com
• Facebook: m.facebook.com
• Twitter: m.twitter.com

This is much different that earlier trick. As of now, this trick is limited to handsets only. The earlier one used to work even from PC.

The whole thing seems a fortunate coincidence for mobile users and unfortunate one for network operators. This trick cannot be termed illegal as you are not cracking any software or modifying any configuration. For the same reason, I think this will take longer to get rectified.

Please keep in mind that AirTel or any mobile operator can calculate all unbilled/free usage anytime in future thus may charge you all of a sudden. So please use it at your own risk!

Link: Download TeaShark | wap site – wap.teashark.com

Alternate Liink: Download TeaShark (Stable Version)

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Megaupload, FileFactory, RapidShare, DivShare, BestSharing, SendSpace, Uploading, FileSend, EasyShare, Badongo, zShare, Amazon S3

Visit and enjoy : www.tinyload.com

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Just go to http://www.orkut.co.in/MobileSetupSettings.aspx and you will see option to specify your mobile number to receive notifications.

Also check out SMS commands page for SMS orkutting. I think SMS command will work only in Brazil.

As of now this new feature is available in India and Brazil only. Moreover in India, only Aircel, BPL, MTNL, Reliance, Spice and Tata networks are supported. This is really bad news for me as I use Airtel & BSNL.

Do not forget to check price details for your carrier as this service may cost you some bucks.

I hope this will get better soon.

Link: http://www.orkut.co.in/MobileSetupSettings.aspx

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