Passing the PL-300 Exam: Tips & Best Practices from a Certified Microsoft Trainer

Certification is not a requirement. If you have a lot of ‘street cred’—expertise that others recognize—then you can probably skip the ordeal.

But getting certified does have the advantage of proving to yourself, and to others, that you have a certain level of skill in the topic.
But often we are so afraid of failure that we don’t want to take an exam that we may not pass. In this presentation, Microsoft Certified Trainer Jessica Jolly will discuss the structure of the PL-300 exam, the topics that are covered, and share techniques when taking certification exams.
Spoiler Alert: I don’t always pass, but I never fail!

Jessica Jolly is a Microsoft Certified Trainer who helps businesses, non-profits and individuals improve their business intelligence skills, bit by byte. She runs her own business, ALT-Enter, LLC. Before her reinvention as an entrepreneur (after 50!), she worked for Unilever, a global consumer products company, for 27 years, in a variety of managerial roles.

Her business practice focuses on data visualization tools, specifically Microsoft's Power BI platform. She is living proof that you can cry through every math class you ever had, and still fashion a career that focuses on data, charts, visuals, and code.

One thing she did miss about her corporate life is the built-in community of colleagues. As a freelance professional, it is hard to re-create that camaraderie. To address that need, she created #SML (Saturday Morning Learning), a group of people who get together (virtually) almost every Saturday to share ideas, problems, connections and frustrations.
She blogs (sporadically) at www.altentertraining.com, tweets very occasionally at @JBJ2110. You can connect with her on LinkedIn at   / jessicabjolly  

When she is not training other adults, she is volunteering at her local public library, knitting and quilting (a refuge from all of the technology!), reading about the Civil War, swimming, gardening, biking and hiking.

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