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| I understand your situation, Transcender costs too much
money.
Here is my situation. I have more than 7 years of
programming experience and I know C#/.NET pretty well,
but I still used Transcender to prepare for my MCSD.NET
(4 exams). I think I would have passed all these exams
without using any practice test. But I want to have good
preparation for these LIVE exams.
It is like Tiger Wood playing golf. He is very good or
maybe he is too good, but he still needs to prepare and
work-hard for any golf competition, try to have good
preparation. As a result, after "good preparation", I
passed all 4 exams in 2 weeks.
I don't work for Transcender, so I don't want to promote
their product here. You just have to make up your mind
what preparation tool you are going to use or feel
comfortable with.
One more thing, certification is not everything, I look
at it as part of the learning process.
Cheer~
>-----Original Message-----
>I've passed two of the MCSD.NET exams so far (70-229, 70-
>300) and have not spent any money on practice exams
>(except for those really cheesy ones that come with the
>study guides). Newsgroup comments I've read make it
seem
>questionable whether an old tightwad like me would
really
>find them to be worth the money. From comments I've
seen,
>it seems like people who have used Trancender feel like
>they are the best...but they seem to be about the most
>expensive, as well. Evidently, you get what you pay
for,
>as with most things.
>
>The price for Transcender exams for the four CORE
MCSD.NET
>tests is almost the same as taking four exams (likely
more
>than a coincidence). It almost seems like you might as
>well take the exams for $125 a throw and treat it like a
>practice exam. Once you know what you're dealing with,
>then you know what to study. And, with some
preparation,
>you oughta be able to pass one or two the first
>time...then you'd even come out ahead.
>
>It seems like you can spend some bucks on this stuff,
not
>knowing whether what you are buying is really
pertinent.
>The main reason I haven't bought practice exams is that
I
>don't know who to trust.
>
>I would like any responses, feedback, comments that
anyone
>would like to share on the following questions:
>
>1 - What practice exams are really a realistic
>representation of the actual cert exams?
>
>2 - How much time is it worthwhile to spend on practice
>exams, as opposed to just learning the relevant material?
>
>3 - Certification should be about mastering a skill - If
>you know VB or C#, etc. you should be ready and able to
>deal with whatever they throw at you in the exam. Or am
I
>just being too idealistic?
>.
>
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