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  • Learn, Grow & Succeed with Special Student Price Certification Exams

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    Today’s students are looking for ways to build skills that will differentiate them from others and open the doors to tomorrow’s jobs.  With recent commissioned research predicting that the number of IT jobs worldwide will rise by 5.8 million between the end of 2009 and the end of 2013, many students are taking advantage of opportunities to get skilled in technology.

    In response, Microsoft has announced student-price certification exams to make it easier for students to earn industry-recognized credentials that will differentiate them in their careers.  Student prices are available worldwide (except in India and China) on Microsoft technologies.  A full list of the available student certifications can be found here.

  • Software Design & IT Challenge Resources

    Channel 9 has launched 3 additional online training courses created by developers for developers. Channel 9 has always been about giving direct access to the engineers and future technologies from Microsoft. These videos and labs, with links to extensive training kits, allow you to get started on hands-on-learning about emerging technologies at your own pace.

    Discover Claims-Based Identity

    Identity has never been so easy. Whether you develop ASP.NET web sites or WCF web services, this self-paced training course will show you how you can take advantage of Windows Identity Foundation, the newest addition to the .NET Framework family, to handle identity and access for your .NET applications in simple and interoperable fashion. The hands-on labs assume no prior knowledge of the subject, covering the most common task first, while more advanced scenarios allow the developers who chose so to explore the topic in more depth.

    Windows HPC Server 2008 Training Course

    Created for software developers as well as IT professionals, this training course includes videos, white papers, datasheets, presentations, and webcasts—all designed to help give you a thorough understanding of the productive, cost-effective and high-performance computing solution that Windows HPC Server 2008 and other Microsoft technologies provide.

    Windows Azure Platform Training Course

    Learn how to build applications that utilize Windows Azure and SQL Azure in this self-paced course of videos, samples and hands-on labs.

    - The Imagine Cup 2010 Team