Microsoft indirectly recommends them by allowing them to be one of the
primary advertisers in their "Microsoft Certified Professional" magazine.
You don't finding advertisements from braindump companies in this
publication. Microsoft reserves the right to choose their advertisers.
http://mcpmag.com/advertisers/

I am guessing here: I believe Microsoft does not recommend them because
Transcender chooses not pay an annual fee to be an MCPTP (Microsoft
Certified Practice Test Provider:
http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/...acticetests.asp ),
which gives practice test companies advertising exposure and the Microsoft
recommendation seal - great for sales. An alternative idea is that the
Microsoft Cert Team merely considers Transcender exams to be too close to
the real exams and there is no fee paid by the "certified" practice test
companies. It would be great to hear the facts from a valid Microsoft source
(someone from the MS Cert Team). Unfortunately, it seems nobody at Microsoft
wants to talk about it. Learn how the MCPTP program was created here:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/...9/qualitypr.asp

Keep in mind that certification is revenue stream for Microsoft. The more
tests we take, the more money they make and, yes, the more we make when we
pass.

My opinion: Transcender has always been the best based on my experience with
Transcender, SelfTest Software and MeasureUp - but that was a few years ago.
Maybe the other two have improved. SelfTest had questions that were easier
than the real exam and MeasureUp had impossibly hard questions that were
unrelated to the exam material and irrelevant to what you need to know
(Example: What is the largest font can you use in Visual InterDev?).
However, if Microsoft pulls this advertiser and claims that using them is
breaking the NDA, then I will quit using them.

Good luck on your quest for Microsoft certification and don't become
discouraged if you fail.

Davin Mickelson
MCSD.NET, MCSA

"Mac McCaskie" <mccaskie@kc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Question,
>
> I've been led to understand that transcenders are the best exam prep
> packages available. True?
>
> So why does microsoft not recommend them? The result is that it appears
> they don't want us to have a us a good chance of success with their
> misleading "recommendation."
>
> Mac <certification greenhorn> McCaskie
>

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