1. Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM

2. Meet Steven Borg | ‏@stevenborg@stevenborg Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence –Specialize in helping organizations adopt lean-agile –Prefer TFS 2012 as my end-to-end ALM tool of choice Background –Microsoft ALM MVP since 2005 –Written Kanban and Scrum courseware –Implemented Kanban and Scrum world-wide –Many years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer

3. Meet Anthony Borton | ‏@anthonyborton@anthonyborton ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM –Specialize in helping organizations adopt TFS –Full TFS 2010 & 2012 courses at www.alm-training.comwww.alm-training.com Background –MCT (since ’96), MCP (since ’93) –Completed 58 Microsoft exams (incl. 001) –Australia’s first Professional Scrum Developer trainer

4. Course Topics 1.Introduction 2.Exam overview 3.Create and configure test plans 4.Manage test cases 5.Manage test execution 6.Wrap up

5. Setting Expectations Target Audience –Software Testers (and Developers) –IT Professionals studying to take the 70-497 exam Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material –Familiarity with managing tests, creating bugs, and controlling test coverage, and a strong understanding modern testing practices and implementing testing practices using Microsoft technologies –Free Book: Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 http://tinyurl.com/TestingCD

6. Microsoft Virtual Academy –Free online learning tailored for IT Pros and Developers –Over 1M registered users –Up-to-date, relevant training on variety of Microsoft products “Earn while you learn!” –Get 50 MVA Points for this event! –Visit http://aka.ms/MVA-Voucherhttp://aka.ms/MVA-Voucher –Enter this code: ALM497 (expires 6/28/2013) Join the MVA Community!

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8. 01 | Exam Overview Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence

9. Certification Overview 70-497 Exam Summary Skills being measured Module Overview

10. Microsoft Virtual Academy Certification Overview

11. Path to MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management More information http://examcr.am/XFRXnRhttp://examcr.am/XFRXnR + + =

12. Microsoft Virtual Academy Exam 70-497 Summary

13. Exam details

14. Audience Profile Candidates for this exam are software testers. They manage the process of running tests, creating and monitoring bugs, and managing and mitigating issues that a software organization has in controlling test coverage for project requirements. The qualified candidate typically has: –a strong understanding of the software testing role. –a strong understanding of modern testing practices. –the ability to implement testing practices by using Microsoft technologies.

15. Microsoft Virtual Academy Skills Being Measured

16. Breakdown of key topic areas

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