Summary of CRM 4.0 Certification Resources

Question:

Can you provide a summary of what you think are the most helpful resources specifically for preparing for the 3 core Dynamics CRM 4.0 exams?

Answer:

My pleasure! I recently authored a series of one-hour exam prep sessions for Microsoft; they were delivered in December by a colleague of mine and are (mostly!) available on the MS Partner Learning Center. Here are the links for two of them:

Prep Session for Customization and Configuration Exam
Prep Session for Installation and Deployment Exam

Two things about these: they are only available to MS US Partners, so when you click the link you need to provide your partner-affililated Windows Live ID to get to them. Also, for some reason the Applications session isn’t exposed — at least I couldn’t find it. If anybody finds it, please let me know where it is! These ‘Prep Sessions’ are your best overall source for ALL of the resources available for preparing — they won’t teach you Dynamics CRM themselves, but they’ll show you where to go to learn and prepare for the tests. So I guess you can think of them as a meta-learning resource.

Here are a couple of my other favorite exam-prep specific resources:

Microsoft Learning has ‘assessments’ available for Dynamics CRM 4.0, and they map to each of the 3 core exams. These assessments are like practice tests, and while they aren’t QA’ed very well, they’re definitely better than nothing, and I recommend you take advantage of them. Here are the links for each:

MS Learning Assessment for CRM 4.0 Applications
MS Learning Assessment for CRM 4.0 Customization
MS Learning Assessment for CRM 4.0 Installation

Finally, I’ve recorded what I refer to as ‘Assessment Walkthroughs’ for each of those. These are recorded sessions where I take each of those assessments, providing commentary and demonstration of key points. Here are the links to these:

Assessment Walkthrough for Applications
Assessment Walkthrough for Customization
Assessment Walkthrough for Installation

Hope this is helpful!