exam 70-431

TS: Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 - Implementation and Maintenance

About this Exam:

This Microsoft Technical Specialist (TS) exam, Exam 70-431: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – Implementation and Maintenance, became available in January 2006. This exam may contain performance-based testing elements.

Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam are professionals who typically pursue careers as database administrators, database developers, or business intelligence developers. Additionally, they can be people who do not work with Microsoft SQL Server as a part of their primary job functions but who want to show their breadth of technology experience, such as developers, systems administrators, and others. Candidates have sought out knowledge and experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to enhance their technical expertise, and they can implement and maintain databases by using specific instructions and specifications.
Candidates for this exam should be experts in following areas:
Tools usage
UI navigation
Wizards usage
Writing code in the appropriate language (Transact-SQL, CLR language, and other scripting languages)
Code debugging or syntactic issue resolution
Troubleshooting
Accomplishing specific focused tasks by using code or UI navigation

Credit Toward Certification
When you pass Exam 70-431: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Implementation and Maintenance, you complete the requirements for the following certification(s):
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2005

Exam 70-431: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Implementation and Maintenance: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
•MCITP: Database Administrator
•MCTS and MCITP upgrade from MCDBA
•MCITP: Database Developer
•MCSA on Microsoft Windows 2000
•MCSA on Windows Server 2003
•MCSE on Microsoft Windows 2000
•MCSE on Windows Server 2003