This was the first Axapta exam that I sat and I found it quite tricky
But fear not! For your experience should be much more pleasent with these tips:
Syllabus
As with any exam there is a syllabus available
This narrows down what you need to know
You can download a pdf copy of it here
Sample Questions
There is a set of 5 sample questions for this exam which are available on the Microsoft website
But it's almost impossible to find and even more difficult to download them so I've made them available for you to download here
Rapid Config Tool
The Rapid config tool is free tool developed by an Axapta partner in the US called Avanade
It's available for download from the MS Partnersource website
The document library that comes with it contains the best Axapta Financials documentation, in my opinion
You can download it from here (requires Partnersource login)
The Plan
Revise the topics from the syllabus using the Financials I & II books (you should be able to buy these from an Microsoft Dynamics Training Partner for about £30 each)
When you come across something that doesn't make sense, check what the Rapid Config documents say as the Financials books don't go into enough depth on most topics
Once you're confident, try to answer the sample questions without any reference materials
If all else fails and you're in the exam looking at a question without any idea what the answer is, then there's a few useful tips for guessing the right answer mentioned in this article
It's a Unix website but the advice applies to any multiple choice IT certification exam
The "If Everything Goes To Hell" Backup Plan
At the time of writing this article, Interquad (the MS training partner who I was taking the exams with) was offering a free resit if you failed an exam on the first attempt
So just make sure you book your exam with a partner that offers the same deal ;)
Good luck!
P.S. I'll be posting all the exam questions I remember once I've had a chance to convert the notes into something readable, stay tuned!
4 comments:
hi, I couldnot download the sylubus and sample question sets, could you please help me to get them
Apologies, the links were broken, they've been fixed now
The website I used to host the files had a major overhaul and those files were deleted in the process
I've changed the hosting service I use to mediafire now so the problem shouldn't happen again
Good evening!
I'l try to pass the exam next week. hope your tips will help me. thanks a lot!
Inessa Tsoy, Kazakhstan
i_nessa@yahoo.com
Best of luck Inessa!
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