I have no idea how Microsoft finds out. I passed the exams without pass4sure. I agree that the exams are non-ideal, but the installation and configuration exams really aren’t that bad.

While the ethical implications of cheating on an exam are interesting, I’m not sure I want to start that dialog here.

Best of luck,
Phil

Anyone who works 12 hours a day does not have much time to study and I thought that buy to prepare for the test would be useful.

The questions to overcome the test of Prometric exam are theoretical and are set wrong, I never reflected the questions in the problems of work every day.

Thank You

I’m not a lawyer, so I cannot say if it is illegal or not, but it sure looks like they are illegal. pass4sure doesn’t so much give you “practice” questions, but I hear they give you actual questions copied from the exam. Because of this, if Microsoft finds out that you used one, they can supposedly take away all of your certifications.

Best,
Phil

I was about to buy the pass4sure products to prepare these exams.

In few words why you define “using pass4sure to pass a test is illegal and could get you decertified” ?

Thank You

Just failed for the second time this morning. I fully agree that this is a very difficult exam (otherwise i would have to admit that i am a dummy) and the questions are poorly formulated. I am going to complain at Microsoft…

I found this blog very useful, but our dear MS refused to provide voucher and said that answers depend on “real life experience”.

I can confirm that MS are still giving free vouchers to those who complain about this exam - I sent a chase-up email to them a couple of days ago asking if anything has happened with the exam yet (i.e. has it been corrected) and I got a free resit voucher by return.

I’ve met the Microsoft folks who are in charge of the CRM training content (at least the Installation and Customization exams) and I can confidently say that they do care. I would suggest dropping a quick email to express your concerns.

I fully agree that this exam is very, very poorly written. I have implementation experience and red many of available books on Dynamics CRM 4.0 and still not able to pass this creation. I have passed other Dynamics CRM and ERP exams without problems. It is obvious that MS exam/content writers are not competent and recently I even found that manual is different from how the system actually functions.
For example, official manual says that several marketing lists can be linked to one quick campaign. But it is not true if you try in the system. Please check by yourself.

Probably this is a case for consumer protection to get back your exam money. But might be difficult to prove, because you accepted that exam contents cannot be distributed outside the exam class according Microsoft legal terms. Microsoft partners are spending too much time and money for the Microsoft mistakes. And as far as I know Microsoft employees in charge of these products do not consider taking such exams by themselves.

It is better not to inform Microsoft when finding any mistakes in the future. It should be their own financial burden to improve quality of services, not a burden of partners. Since this is a monopoly, no one can really change it except if you switch to other products (Less expensive “opensource” to be improved :).