Business intelligence training and Cert from Microsoft

Hello there
I was wondering if there are any exams/certs that MS might consider put
on the market to have people prove themselves for BI.
are there other cert vendors that have that ? I found only certain
graduate classes....
simoThere was an MCP exam for OLAP on SQL Server 7, but that is now retired, and
there is no SQL Server 2000 version. Considering the emphasis Microsoft has
put on BI in recent years, I would be very surprised if there wouldn't be a
BI exam with the set of exams for SQL Server 2005. Possibly, there might
even be a separate MCDBA with BI specialization, similar to the MCSE with
security or messaging specialization. The timescales for releasing these
exams is 6 months after the product is released, which will probably mean
the first half of next year.
Jacco Schalkwijk
SQL Server MVP
"Simo Sentissi" <simo@.sentissiweb.com> wrote in message
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> Hello there
> I was wondering if there are any exams/certs that MS might consider put on
> the market to have people prove themselves for BI.
> are there other cert vendors that have that ? I found only certain
> graduate classes....
> simo