Re: Passed 70-315 today
From: Muthukumar.V (strider_vc_at_lycos.com)
Date: 02/13/05
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:38:04 -0800
Congratulations Emma!
Thanks for the great informative post! These kind of posts serve as a good
guide for guys who prepare like me.
Thanks
Muthu
"Emma Burrows" <eb@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, it's another one of those "yay! I passed" posts. But as I found
> sifting
> through these posts in Google Groups rather reassuring when I had my
> last-minute panic in the last few days, I hope this will help future
> candidates too, even if it's a bit long. :)
>
> The exam consisted of 43 questions to answer in 2 hours. It took me one
> hour
> to run through all the questions once. I then used another half hour to
> review questions I didn't feel confident about, and went through all the
> questions again in the last half hour. I passed with 962 points (the
> passing
> score is 700). Based on my score report and a quick check afterwards
> (followed by a cry of "doh!"), I know I got at least one question wrong,
> but
> there was no indication of what the maximum possible score might have
> been.
>
> Since these questions get asked a lot around here, here's some stuff about
> my background, and what study materials I used.
>
> My last job was as a technical support engineer and systems administrator.
> I
> have a lot of ASP experience from personal projects, and I was the web
> master and SQL administrator for the company I worked for, so I did have a
> good background in ASP, IIS and SQL to start with (which is why I've
> started
> my MCAD/MCSD route with 70-315). I have also implemented and supported a
> couple of ASP.NET applications in the past, though I never wrote any
> myself.
> Aside from my ASP work, I've written some tiny, unambitious things in C++
> and C# - just enough to convince me that this is an avenue I want to
> pursue
> further.
>
> I used the following resources to learn the material and prepare for the
> exam:
>
> Microsoft MCAD Self-Paced Training Kit
> (see http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6714.asp)
> Having read through it twice before getting the Kalani book, I didn't find
> this book massively useful. It gives a high-level overview of the topics
> covered by the exam, but the exercises aren't very helpful, and the
> explanations aren't always very clear either. After completing it, I
> didn't
> feel I had a good grasp on some of the topics at all. However, I did find
> the practice exam on the CD quite useful. It is very difficult (though
> partly because of the hideous interface! :), and provides feedback on the
> areas where you have weaknesses, much as the real exam does. It's like a
> sadistic version of the real exam, only you get half the time to do it. So
> if you pass that, you're probably ready for the real thing. However, I
> can't
> recommend actually spending money on this book if your budget is tight. I
> couldn't pass its practice test after working through the book, and I
> doubt
> I would have passed the real exam either.
>
> Que 70-315 Training Guide by Amit Kalani
> (see http://tinyurl.com/4rhh7)
> Anyone who hangs around this group for any length of time will have
> noticed
> the amount of praise heaped upon this book. Let me heap some more. The
> author's command of the English language might be dubious at times, but
> his
> command of the subject matter, and how to impart that knowledge to his
> readers, is excellent. I did all the exercises and all the practice
> questions, and it really did teach me the essentials of ASP.NET and the
> related concepts. The practice test in the book doesn't bear much
> resemblance to the real exam, but it does check that you've learned the
> material. I also found the PrepLogic preview exam on the CD quite a
> challenge and a good encouragement to research some of my weak points
> (though unfortunately, part of the challenge was provided by poorly-worded
> questions).
>
> Once I'd worked my way through the whole of Kalani's book, I was confident
> I
> knew enough about the subject matter to attempt the exam. So that's when I
> decided to book it at http://www.vue.com (that's also when I realised that
> this week would be my last opportunity to sit the exam, as I'm expecting a
> baby in three weeks' time - I wonder if I'm the most pregnant MCP? :). But
> I
> gave myself two weeks to revise, using the following resources:
>
> - A final read-through of Kalani's book. If you skip all the exercises, it
> doesn't take that long to read (though I'd recommend re-reading some of
> the
> exercises too, as some of them contain information not mentioned in the
> rest
> of the text!).
>
> - MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com). Whatever study guide you use, there's
> no
> substitute for reading the details straight from the horse's mouth, as it
> were. Kalani's book taught me the concepts, but MSDN has all the nitty
> gritty of the methods and properties that the classes use; although I
> don't
> think you have to learn these by rote, it does help if you know whether a
> given method/property/directive actually exists!
>
> - Miscellaneous web sites that came up when searching for "ASP.NET C#" in
> http://www.google.com. This mostly gave me a general understanding of C#,
> which is good background, though not vital material for the exam itself.
>
> - Some tips and suggestions found when searching for "70-315" in
> Google Groups (http://groups.google.com). In fact, as I said at the
> beginning of this post, just reading about people who had passed the exam
> gave me great hope! :)
>
> I also did as much poking around Visual Studio .NET as I could whenever a
> question in a practice exam or a code sample in MSDN made me want to see
> something for myself. But Kalani's book is really excellent in this
> regard,
> as his exercises give you plenty of productive poking around to really
> learn
> that environment.
>
> Anyway, I hope that was useful to anyone who is planning to take this
> exam!
>
> Emma Burrows
>
>
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