DREYFUS VARIABLE INVESTMENT FUND.

Certificate of Secretary

     The undersigned, Michael A. Rosenberg, Secretary of Dreyfus Variable Investment Fund (the "Fund"), hereby certifies that set forth below is a copy of the resolution adopted by the Fund's Board authorizing the signing by Michael A. Rosenberg, Kiesha Astwood, James Bitetto, Joni Lacks Charatan, Joseph M. Chioffi, Kathleen DeNicholas, Janette E. Farragher, John B. Hammalian, M. Cristina Meiser, Robert R. Mullery and Jeff Prusnofsky on behalf of the proper officers of the Fund pursuant to a power of attorney:

RESOLVED, that the Registration Statement and any and all
amendments and supplements thereto may be signed by any one of
Michael A. Rosenberg, Kiesha Astwood, James Bitetto, Joni Lacks
Charatan, Joseph M. Chioffi, Kathleen DeNicholas, Janette E.
Farragher, John B. Hammalian, M. Cristina Meiser, Robert R.
Mullery and Jeff Prusnofsky, as the attorney-in-fact for the proper
officers of the Fund, with full power of substitution and re-
substitution; and that the appointment of each of such persons as
such attorney-in-fact hereby is authorized and approved; and that
such attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, shall have full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done in connection with such Registration
Statement and any and all amendments and supplements thereto, as
whom he or she is acting as attorney-in-fact, might or could do in
person.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Consent as of the 1^st day of December 2009.

/s/Michael A. Rosenberg 

Michael A. Rosenberg 

Secretary 

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DREYFUS VARIABLE INVESTMENT FUND