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Old 05-Mar-2008, 10:27 AM
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Passed 70-536!

wahey!

717 (700 needed to pass) so I was verrry close but still, months of hard work and reading finally paid off.

A few links / thoughts for anyone else studying this now and apologies if this has all been posted a hundred times before

The exam itself was 40 questions, mainly multiple choice questions with one, two or three right answers. There were some that you had to choose 3 of 5 options and put them in the right order so something like:

Choose 3 of the following and put them in the right order for going to work in the morning:
A: Go back to bed
B: Get up
C: Get breakfast
D: Phone in sick
E: Get in car and drive to work

So you would choose B, C, E.
I was given ages to do it (I think its 2hr 30mins or 3hr) so time is certainly not an issue. I was also provided with some paper to right down any notes and workings out I wanted.

For actually studying the exam / learning the objectives I used the official study guide and also the MSDN articles.

Practice questions:
http://www.accelerated-ideas.com/pra...am-70-536.aspx
http://www.ucertify.com/download/70-536-VB.html
They can either be done online or have free trial versions to be downloaded.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/default.aspx
The portal for MSDN for C# - very useful, well worth reading through each of the main topics to get a better understanding of how it all fits together

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Microso...st/Exam_70-536
This site links all the exam objectives and has discussions / notes on each.

http://www.dotnetfun.com/articles/ce...ification.aspx
This site has links to all the MSDN articles for each exam objective

Other than that all I would say is I didnt get too bogged down in learning every sinlge method for every single class in every objective. I would say it is more important to know a) what a class can do and b) why you would use it. The rest will come.

 
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Originally Posted by glosrob View Post
Choose 3 of the following and put them in the right order for going to work in the morning:
A: Go back to bed
B: Get up
C: Get breakfast
D: Phone in sick
E: Get in car and drive to work

So you would choose B, C, E.
That's a trick question... everyone knows it's supposed to be B, A, B, E!

(C is optional, and sometimes happens after getting in the car and before getting to work).

Congrats!


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Congrats!

How long did it take you to prepare?

What prior experience did you have?

Your story gives me hope.

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