{"id":290,"date":"2013-05-13T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T19:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2013-05-14T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:38:17","slug":"im-a-new-sharepoint-2010-mcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"I&rsquo;m a New SharePoint 2010 MCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MCM_Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MCM_Logo\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MCM_Logo\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MCM_Logo_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some journeys take a lot longer than you originally expected.&#160; I started my journey in pursuit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/en\/us\/mcm-certification.aspx#fbid=Nh9miusRdDn\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Certified Master\u2019s SharePoint<\/a> certification when I attended rotation 8 in May, 2011.&#160; If you are wondering what it was like I can\u2019t do a better job of describing the experience than was done by my friend, fellow MVP, (and now fellow MCM) Wictor Wil\u00e9n does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wictorwilen.se\/Post\/Microsoft-Certified-Master-SharePoint-2010-thoughts-and-reflections.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.&#160; Wictor and I were in the same rotation, but where he passed all his qualifications at the end of the rotation, I took an additional two years. After passing everything but the qual lab during the rotation I took a second try at the qual lab about 6 weeks later in July.&#160; I made a silly mistake on that one that cost me about 2 hours of troubleshooting time.&#160; I knew by the end of the lab that I had failed.&#160; After that life just got too busy with billable work, and then a change of employers.&#160; It wasn\u2019t until this spring that I decided I couldn\u2019t give up and had to take my last shot at the qual lab. So I spent five days at the beginning of May reviewing all the old material and on Wednesday May 8th I had my chance.&#160; At the end of 8 1\/2 grueling hours I had a good feeling about the results.&#160; On Friday I got confirmation that I had indeed passed.&#160; After starting over 2 years ago I am finally a SharePoint 2010 MCM and it\u2019s a great feeling. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also want to extend a big <strong>Thank You<\/strong> to my former company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharesquared.com\" target=\"_blank\">ShareSquared<\/a> and to my current company <a href=\"http:\/\/bluechip-llc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Chip Consulting<\/a> for giving me time away from billable work to attend the training and prepare for my re-take of the Qual Lab.&#160; Without their support I would never&#160; have made it.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#c0504d\" size=\"4\"><strong>Now on to planning for MCSM SharePoint 2013!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some journeys take a lot longer than you originally expected.&#160; I started my journey in pursuit of a Microsoft Certified Master\u2019s SharePoint certification when I attended rotation 8 in May, 2011.&#160; If you are wondering what it was like I can\u2019t do a better job of describing the experience than was done by my friend, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&rsquo;m a New SharePoint 2010 MCM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,13],"tags":[58,83,6],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcm","category-news","tag-certification","tag-mcm","tag-sharepoint_2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}