Any MCAD's or MCSD's in the house?

[WannaFly]

I'm probably going to attempt all the tests in order to become a MCSD, as my work will pay for them and I know alot of the material already. Has anyone taken some of these specfic tests? Just looking for a general idea of what to expect.

 

[digitalbooyah]

This could be completely irrelevant, but i took the MSCE tests for NT 4.0 a while ago. Since expired but my experience was this. Having passed five tests, had to take 2 of them twice, the thing that made me pass them was buying o'reilly books on them and reading the entire thing the day before and PRACTICE TESTS.

read till you feel ready and read more. It sucks wasting 100$ on 30 minutes of failing a test. hate it.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: WannaFly
I'm probably going to attempt all the tests in order to become a MCSD, as my work will pay for them and I know alot of the material already. Has anyone taken some of these specfic tests? Just looking for a general idea of what to expect.

These tests have changed a lot recently. They became adaptive tests just before they offered .net ones. From what I have seen, most of the tests are pretty easy if you study hard. Some tests are hard no matter what, though (such as the DBA related ones).

 

[WannaFly]

Thanks for the information torpid and digitalbooyah. I've taken a few Microsoft certification tests so I kind of know the format, but I wanted to see if anyone here has actually taken any of the tests required for these certs. Thanks.

 

[torpid]

I've really wanted to, but I just can't bring myself to study useless things like how to add a database connection within visual studio or similar things that are not really good practice.