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| Mike Gleason Jr Couturier 2002-07-10, 9:25 am |
| Hello all !!
Just a quick question.. I read the "skills being mesured"
about 70-015 exam on MS site. It looks like a copy
paste of the 70-016 "skills being mesured".
I passed the VC 6 Desktop exam (70-016). Is the distributed
(70-015) harder ?
Anyone passed both !? What should I study most ?
Thank you !!
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| I passed both exams in beta and I think I would have had to flip a coin if
asked to label each exam correctly based on the questions alone. I've said
the Distributed exam was about 50% COM and 50% ATL, but the Desktop exam was
the exact opposite.
I think the "skills being measured" is the best place to start studying for
all the exams. I read a few relevant 3rd party books too.
"Mike Gleason Jr Couturier" < mcouturierMAPSON@bmgmultimedia
.com> wrote in
message news:#ofMJ5BKCHA.2156@tkmsftngp10...
> Just a quick question.. I read the "skills being mesured"
> about 70-015 exam on MS site. It looks like a copy
> paste of the 70-016 "skills being mesured".
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| RichardJW 2002-07-10, 2:01 pm |
| The skills measured look very similiar but you will find that there are additional skills being measured in the distributed exams. This would presuppose one to believe that 70-015 is the more difficult but if the VB exams are anything to go by then that would not be the case.
Learn MTS, more ATL COM, SQL, a bit more on databases maybe and go do the exam.
I didn't find 70-016 to be difficult or 70-175 for that matter. It was 70-176 that I actually found fairly difficult with its interminably long questions. | |
| Leszek 2002-07-10, 2:25 pm |
| Does it mean that "distributed" includes MTS and SQL questions ?
I am going to pass both of them shortly, and I am wondering about
proportions of each topic, i.e. (example) COM (30%), ActiveX/OLE(10%),
MFC(30%), etc.
Can anybody estimate this ?
Thanks,
Leszek Taratuta
"Tim" <spammers@begone> wrote in message
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> I passed both exams in beta and I think I would have had to flip a coin if
> asked to label each exam correctly based on the questions alone. I've said
> the Distributed exam was about 50% COM and 50% ATL, but the Desktop exam
was
> the exact opposite.
>
> I think the "skills being measured" is the best place to start studying
for
> all the exams. I read a few relevant 3rd party books too.
>
> "Mike Gleason Jr Couturier" < mcouturierMAPSON@bmgmultimedia
.com> wrote in
> message news:#ofMJ5BKCHA.2156@tkmsftngp10...
>
> > Just a quick question.. I read the "skills being mesured"
> > about 70-015 exam on MS site. It looks like a copy
> > paste of the 70-016 "skills being mesured".
>
>
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| "Leszek" <taratuta@5thbusiness.com> wrote in message
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> Does it mean that "distributed" includes MTS and SQL questions ?
Yes. That does not mean those topics are not included on the "desktop" exam
though.
> I am going to pass both of them shortly, and I am wondering about
> proportions of each topic, i.e. (example) COM (30%), ActiveX/OLE(10%),
> MFC(30%), etc.
Like I said, COM and ATL. MFC was included, but as I recall was only about
10% of the questions.
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| RichardJW 2002-07-10, 7:42 pm |
| quote:
Does it mean that "distributed" includes MTS and SQL questions ?
Yes it will. I can't help you on the proportions. I simply don't know. However, as per usual a reasonable understanding I expect would be required. If you have a decent programming experience you should be able to learn both of these technologies to a sufficient degree within a couple of weeks, given that you have not been exposed to them before and that you have time to play around with. Try writing some SQL statements. Get hold of a database that you can mutilate and try updating it with an SQL update statement. Try some join statements between two different tables. MTS? Just cram your head with a bunch of facts about it. Try to understand the technology in the broader sense. Do this by starting with specifics and looking for the bigger picture. I wish you luck. |
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