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From: SivaDotNet
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Hi Sanjay,
ThankX for giving a Crystal Clear Idea for Exam preparation.
This is very much useful. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Siva
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From: Sanjay_Narang
Hi,
There are many ways you can do your preparation. I'll tell
you the way that worked for me.
Step 1:
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Decide about the certification
you need to do. Then get all details about that certification.
This should be
- What certification you are targeting MCAD, MCSD or
something else. (I'll go with MCSD.NET assumption here)
- How
many exams you need to take for that
- What all exams you are
going to take. For elective you need to decide one exam from
different options
- What language stream you will take (C# or
VB.NET)
- Sequence in which you need to take the exam
My preferred sequence is :
1. web applications
2.
windows applications
3. web services
4. the elective
exam
5. the most important architecture exam
Following links will help you in this step
Six Steps to Certification
http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/mcp/sixsteps.asp
Details about MCSD
http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/mcp/mcsd/
Details about curriculum /syllabus
http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/mcp/mcsd/requirementsdotnet.asp
BDOTNet certification page:
http://groups.msn.com/BDotNet/certification.msnw
Step 2
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Start preparing for the first
exam. You need to keep some target, otherwise it keeps on
getting delayed. From my experience, if one doesn't have any
knowledge about .Net he needs to spend this much
time on
different things:
- general knowledge about .Net and the
language of your choice: 30 to 40 hours
- for exams 1 to 3
(as given in above step): 70 to 90 hours each
- for elective
exam: depends upon the exam you are taking e.g. if you have
database knowledge SQL server exam will take you much less time
than BizTalk server. If you are starting from scratch you can
keep rough estimate of 100 hours
- for architecture exam:
there is no defined syllabus for this. Here your common sense,
experience, and knowledge gained from previous exams comes
handy. You can have rough estimate for 70 to 90 hours.
But from where to prepare and how to?
There are numerous
options available. You can take Microsoft courses for different
subjects being offered by NIIT and other institutes. But that
proves very costly. Microsoft Press has published "Training Kit"
for each and every exam. These training kits are very good and
cover 80 to 90% of skills required for the exam. I took
following method (should work for you) for each exam
- Read training kit completely and do most of the practice
exercises given in the book.
- When you install .NET SDK, it
also installs "Quick starts". These are really very useful. Go
through all of them that are required for the exam. In fact
there are many skills that are not covered in above training
kits, you'll find those here.
(You'll have many questions and doubts in above two things,
refer to MSD library for all such questions. This will give you
much more info that you won't get anywhere)
- Now when you are ready for the exam, make sure that you
take at least one of the mock exam before going for final one.
You'll know the style of questions that comes there in exam. And
mostly you'll get low score in these exams. It's very important
that you review each of your wrong answer and make sure that you
don't get similar question wrong again, Now where to get mock
exams? Give a search on web, you'll find many resources - legal,
illegal everything is there.
Microsoft has also started providing some free assessment
exams. These are good ones (but not sufficient for the exam). Go
through them.
http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/assessment/
(Take
Visual Studio.NET assessments on above link, these exams are
actually provided by MeasureUP)
Our BDotNet site has very good guide for 5th exam
(70-300). Read that.
http://www.msnusers.com/BDotNet/Documents/Software%20Artifacts/Certifications/MCSD%20Study%20Guide.doc
Then many sites offering free tests. I remember one:
http://www.cert21.com/
THAT'S ALL. You are ready to start now. And post to
this group when you complete the certification. Also let us
know, if this information was useful.
Cheers
Sanjay
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