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| GiddyUpHorsey 2002-09-04, 7:55 pm |
| Yo,
Just sat and passed 70-100. Scored 889. I'm glad that horrible exam is over. 
175 & 176 were much easier IMO.
For those who are studying for this exam. One tip. You don't need to waste your time with MSF. My two study books had large chunks about MSF (especially the microsoft press one), there was NOT ONE single question on or related to MSF.
It's good stuff to know I suppose. But a complete waste of time from the point of view of passing the exam.
Just got 029 to worry about now.... | |
| BootData 2002-09-05, 8:19 am |
| congrats,....what books/study materials did you use for study? care share with us?
thanks... | |
| GiddyUpHorsey 2002-09-05, 8:38 pm |
| Microsoft Press - MCSD Training Kit for exam 70-100 (Not so good. Very thorough, great reference, but not good as study guide for exam. It's a huge fat book, and often tough to read)
Exam Cram - Architectures, Donald R. Brandt (Excellent. Concise, yet providing enough detail to understand)
MSDN Library
Plus every free practice exam that came with the books or that I could find on the net. | |
| mchoirul 2002-09-05, 11:43 pm |
| hey horsey,
I have passed 29 last year.
I have MS E-Book for 29, how about barter my e-book with your examcram for 100 ? e-book format is preferable
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| GiddyUpHorsey 2002-09-07, 12:08 am |
| Sorry man, the book didn't come with a copy of it on CD. | |
| Margus 2002-09-07, 1:33 pm |
| What is MSF?
I have some examquestions to trade for 70-100 examcram
(all the questions I got in exam on July/2002 were in those examquestions)
quote:
Originally posted by GiddyUpHorsey
Yo,
Just sat and passed 70-100. Scored 889. I'm glad that horrible exam is over.
175 & 176 were much easier IMO.
For those who are studying for this exam. One tip. You don't need to waste your time with MSF. My two study books had large chunks about MSF (especially the microsoft press one), there was NOT ONE single question on or related to MSF.
It's good stuff to know I suppose. But a complete waste of time from the point of view of passing the exam.
Just got 029 to worry about now....
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| GiddyUpHorsey 2002-09-08, 4:50 am |
| Thanks, but no thanks Margus. The cost of shipping it makes it not worth while.
I got the book from amazon.com for US 20.99.
Try there, sometimes they have second hand (and brand new) copies of exam books for dirt cheap. I got my 70-029 book for US 9. Thats less than half of what it costs to ship it to NZ. | |
| Margus 2002-09-08, 4:15 pm |
| Im sorry GiddyUpHorsey --> I didnt exactly mean the book; I meant more like the extra material (examquestions, practice exams etc.) | |
| GiddyUpHorsey 2002-09-08, 9:48 pm |
| Ok, anyway, the book had no cd, the questions etc were in the book. Just get the free demos from transcender, sts, ucertify, cert21, msexpert, etc. | |
| Duke6 2002-09-14, 10:38 am |
| Well done Horsey!
I'm in the same boat too. Passed 70-029 on Thursday, got 775. Now 75% through the MCSD exam track only 70-100 left. Is it AS bad as everyone says?
Duke6
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| GiddyUpHorsey 2002-09-15, 12:48 am |
| Hey Duke,
I dunno if it's as bad as people say. What do they say? But it is definitely more difficult than the two VB exams IMO. | |
| Duke6 2002-09-15, 10:20 am |
| Thanks Horsey.
I heard that Business Solutions Architecture was the 'hardest' exam in the MCSD quartet from the college I studied at last year. We started studying this subject on the evening of Tuesday, September 11th 2001, so maybe its pshychosymatic with me)! Any way I found SQL 7 slightly harder than I had expected but I still scraped a pass some how.
Good luck to all you aspiring Solutions Developers out there.
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| DataRN 2002-10-21, 3:26 pm |
| In what order would y'all recommend taking the tests.
I'm studying/ using VB6 and SQL 2K.
Thanks,
Bob | |
| GiddyUpHorsey 2002-10-21, 4:01 pm |
| Well I've been doing them in this order:
vb desktop, vb distributed, architecture, SQL Server
I've found that they flow on to each other quite well.
However, it all depends on you really.
This order works for me 'cos my background is much stronger on the VB side than on the SQL side. Desktop would be easier than distributed for most ppl I would imagine. |
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