CRM Certified Developer
Well, after a year of working with CRM 3.0, and some not too infrequent arguments with Microsoft about the vagaries of its internal workings, I finally decided to get my CRM Certification in the week or so before Christmas.
I managed it, but it wasn't easy. Firstly, I wanted to go with Pearson instead of Prometric, but I was told Pearson were out of the picture. The Prometric site died when I tried to book a second exam. Repeatedly. Plus there were only 5 days over 4 centres that exams could be sat, and the nearest was over 35 minutes away, instead of the 8 minute walk to the nearest Pearson centre.
Turned out Pearson was still available until December 31, so I cancelled my Prometric exam, sucked up the risk of not having the free resit offer (which DID NOT say it was Prometric only until after you requested a voucher number). And rebooked MB2-421 and MB2-422 with Pearson. Which was always was a breeze.
Then I sat those and passed. so I booked MB2-498 for a few days later. Fortunately in between times I rechecked my certification planner (which I hadn't done in several months) before the exam, and found the requirements had changed, and I needed to sit MB2-498 instead. So I cancelled and rebooked the correct exam. Which I also passed, so I am now CRM certified (my sister says that means CRM has made me certifiable, and she should know as she's been working on it too).