MCSE Data Platform: the roadmap for preparation

Certification: Microsoft MCSE - Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert

The MCSE data platform is the most valuable certification offered by the Microsoft systems, especially for the Microsoft products. This Microsoft certification covers everything from the installing, maintaining, installing and designing the Microsoft database environment to troubleshoot and implementing the database objects. Gaining this MCSE data platform certificate in the Microsoft SQL server 2012 is always an undeniable evidence of the broader skill sets in administering and building an enterprise scale data solution, where they are in own data center or else in an ever huge ubiquitous cloud environment. This certification helps to validate the skills needed for data types tables, creating database files, design for the database structure, objects, servers, storage and tables.

Through this certification, you will gain the high level of proficiency which can be taught over simulations, real world application and hands on lab skills. This MCS data platform certification requires the MCSA SQL server 2012 certification, it is the necessary prerequisite to get certified as an MCSE data platform professional. Microsoft recommended that the candidate must have 2 or more years of working experience in the related field and working knowledge of the relational databases and Transact SQL.

The roadmap for preparation:

To get eligible for yourself, you need to attain the MCSA SQL server 2012 certification. This certification comprises of 3 exams such as:

Querying SQL server 2012 : exam 70-461
Administering SQL server 2012 databases : Exam 70-462
Implementing the data warehouse with a SQL server 2012: exam 70- 463

This certification helps to demonstrate the essential skills as well as breakthrough insights in maintaining and developing the next wave of the mission critical environments. After obtaining the MCSA SQL server 2012 certification, it is necessary to decide whether you really interested in data platform or data platform. This MCSA certification provides the roadmap for both the certification. In case, you really like to take the MCSE data platform certification follow the below roadmap.

The MCSE data platform is the certification, which mainly targets the database analyst and database designer. The below 2 exams are the important exams that the candidate has to score pass mark to attain the MCSE data platform certification.

Exam 70-464: Developing Microsoft SQL server 2012 databases

For all the IT professionals and individuals who searching their way to gain knowledge, then this exam will the most useful one to create job opportunity and make them expertise in the job related roles and responsibilities. The 70-464 certification exam will help to know how to deploy and modify data, how to create the databases. The data implementation is considered as the most important tasks which is effectively taught over this exam. It can also help to learn how to work in the business intelligence environment and also how to make out the existing resources. This exam is the thorough guide which offers the maximum skills and it allows to get the better most for their abilities as a database administrator or database operator. To make the availability at greater extent, the test can be taken in English and other 5 languages such as Chinese, Spanish and Japanese. The main objectives covered in this exam are as follows:

Implement the database Object
- Alter and create tables
- Troubleshoot, implement, and design security
- Work with the XML data
- Implement the data types
- Maintain indexes
- Modify and create constraints
- Design a locking granularity level
Implement the programming objects
- Alter and create views
- Alter, use and create user defined functions
- Write an automated script
- Design the T-SQL scalar functions and table valued
- Implement and design stored procedures
Design database objects
- Design for explicit and implicit transactions
- Design data integrity
- Design tables
- Alter and create indexes
- Design for the concurrency
Optimize as well as troubleshoot queries
- Collect system information and performance
- Analyze and capture execution plans
- Resolve and troubleshoot performance issues
- Optimizing an index strategy
- Tune and optimize queries
- By passing the exam, it defines that the certified candidate has sound knowledge on the topics which covered under the exam. It is necessary to understand the concepts of each topic and the percentage of the marks for each division to concentrate more on the required important topics.

Exam 70- 465: Designing database solutions for the Microsoft SQL server 2012

Through this exam, you can able to learn how to get the company data and also how to implement, configure and modify. This exam will guide the candidate to perform their day to day tasks in a better way. The 70-465 preparation roadmap as follows:

Design database structure
- Design recovery and backup
- Design the SQL server instances
- Design for the Business requirement
- Design the migration, upgrade strategy and consolidation
- Design the index and table portioning strategy
- Design object placement and physical database
Design database objects and databases
- Design tables
- Design for explicit and implicit transactions
- Design for a concurrency
- Design the T-SL stored procedure
- Design the database models
- Design the management automation strategy
Design the database security
- Design an instance level of security configurations
- Design application strategies to support the security
- Design schema, object security and database parameters
Design optimization solution and troubleshooting
- Design the monitoring solution at an instance level
- Design the maintenance strategies for the database servers
- Troubleshoot as well as resolve the concurrency issues
- Design the solution to monitor concurrency and performance
- Design as well as implements the high availability solutions

Make sure that you are familiar with the above mentioned topics and test yourself with the help of online practice test or mock test and concentrate more on the weak area which you scored less mark in the sample test. There are so many online and offline resources available for the MCSE data platform preparation, make use of the material and get certified it.

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