The Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals Certification Study group is a special interest group. The group focuses on study for the preperation to take the Microsoft certifications. It is free and open to the public.

The group is divided into two separate study sessions. Both sessions meet on the same dates. The details on the sessions are shown below. The meetings are open to anyone who is interested in becoming certified as well as those who just desire to follow the course materials and learn.

The group chooses a particular exam preperation book(s) to study throughout the group season. Participants are encouraged to choose chapters from the book to present to the group at the meetings.

At the meeting we have general reviews, presentations, question and answer sessions and refreshments.

Our Certification Study Group meeting are ALWAYS the Second and Fourth Wednesday of the month unless noted in the meeting announcement. The meetings run from 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM. The group meets from October through June and takes a break during the summer.

The Certification Study Group meeting is held at the TEKsystems in Linthicum (please review the schedule of meetings to get directions).

To see a list of upcoming meetings, click here.

This season (Oct 2007 - Jun 2008), the study group has been sectioned into two groups. One group will study ASP.NET and the other will be studying Business Intelligence. BOTH study sessions are on the same date, time and location.

This Season, the CMAP Certification Study Group (Group #1) is studying the Professional Certification Series on Business Intelligence. The group is studing the 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-445): Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Implementation and Maintenance (Pro - Certification)'. The book can be purchased through any source and is available from Amazon.com through the link shown to the right.

The Certification Study Group - Business Intelligence meeting members communicate through a special message board. The mesasge board is Yahoo Groups based and you must subscribe to the board to participate. To subscribe, simply click on the link below and choose to join the group when your browser opens to the Yahoo page.

Please take the time to join the yahoo based message board specifically for the Certification Study Group - Business Intelligence.

Click to join the CMAP Certification Study Group #1 - Business Intelligence

This Season, the CMAP Certification Study Group (Group #2) is studying the Professional Certification Series on ASP.NET. The group is studing the 'MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-528): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development (Pro Certification)'. The book can be purchased through any source and is available from Amazon.com through the link shown to the right.

The Certification Study Group - ASP.NET meeting members communicate through a special message board. The mesasge board is Yahoo Groups based and you must subscribe to the board to participate. To subscribe, simply click on the link below and choose to join the group when your browser opens to the Yahoo page.

Please take the time to join the yahoo based message board specifically for the Certification Study Group - ASP.NET.

Click to join the CMAP Certification Study Group #2 - ASP.NET