I passed 70-300 and became one of the few MCSD .NETs in Sydney, Australia.

I became MCAD Charter member (in the first 5000) in April, so I am
assuming that there aren't too many MCSD .NETs around yet. I will
become an MCT in the next month and hope to teach short courses either
through some training organisation in Sydney or through UTS (University
of Technology Sydney).

The exams I took in order were:

70–315 (Web Applications with C#)
- Configuration and security aspects get a bit tricky. Having a decent
background knowledge of ASP.NET helps.

70–316 (Windows Applications with C#)
- Relatively straight forward especially if you have lots of java
experience. Security and assembly management does get a bit tricky. In
hindsight, I should have taken this exam first.

70–320 (XML Web Services with C#)
- You really have to understand the ins and outs of .NET Remoting for
this one. I think 'WebMethod Attributes' are really cludgy, but you
learn to live with them. Details of DOM, XMLReader, XPath and
understanding the XML generated from SQL server based on your query are
the joys of this exam.

70–229 (SQL Server)
- Lots of information, lots of detail. I mainly used the Microsoft
book and CodeClinic to study for the exam. This is one exam where I
felt overwhelmed by low level details to remember.

70–300 (Analyzing Requirements and Architectures)
- I was expecting this one to be the hardest exam, but it turned out to
be reasonable. I used Microsoft's book to prepare for it. This might
be the one book I keep as I really enjoyed reading it, but for exam
purposes the case studies and the sample exam included in the book is weak.


I have many years of experience as a developer and a university
lecturer. While the exams were not 'rocket science', they all required
reading through a couple of books and reviewing Microsoft specific material.

Good luck to all taking exams. If you'd like to hire me in a month to
teach one of the .NET courses in Sydney, email me at
yp2.junk@junk.yahoo.com

Y

PS: If you cannot decipher my email address, you just failed my limited
Turing test.

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>
> I passed 70-300 and became one of the few MCSD .NETs in Sydney, Australia.
>
> I became MCAD Charter member (in the first 5000) in April, so I am
> assuming that there aren't too many MCSD .NETs around yet. I will
> become an MCT in the next month and hope to teach short courses either
> through some training organisation in Sydney or through UTS (University
> of Technology Sydney).
>
> The exams I took in order were:
>
> 70–315 (Web Applications with C#)
> - Configuration and security aspects get a bit tricky. Having a decent
> background knowledge of ASP.NET helps.
>
> 70–316 (Windows Applications with C#)
> - Relatively straight forward especially if you have lots of java
> experience. Security and assembly management does get a bit tricky. In
> hindsight, I should have taken this exam first.
>
> 70–320 (XML Web Services with C#)
> - You really have to understand the ins and outs of .NET Remoting for
> this one. I think 'WebMethod Attributes' are really cludgy, but you
> learn to live with them. Details of DOM, XMLReader, XPath and
> understanding the XML generated from SQL server based on your query are
> the joys of this exam.
>
> 70–229 (SQL Server)
> - Lots of information, lots of detail. I mainly used the Microsoft
> book and CodeClinic to study for the exam. This is one exam where I
> felt overwhelmed by low level details to remember.
>
> 70–300 (Analyzing Requirements and Architectures)
> - I was expecting this one to be the hardest exam, but it turned out to
> be reasonable. I used Microsoft's book to prepare for it. This might
> be the one book I keep as I really enjoyed reading it, but for exam
> purposes the case studies and the sample exam included in the book is
weak.
>
>
> I have many years of experience as a developer and a university
> lecturer. While the exams were not 'rocket science', they all required
> reading through a couple of books and reviewing Microsoft specific
material.
>
> Good luck to all taking exams. If you'd like to hire me in a month to
> teach one of the .NET courses in Sydney, email me at
> yp2.junk@junk.yahoo.com
>
> Y
>
> PS: If you cannot decipher my email address, you just failed my limited
> Turing test.
>

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Congrats! (There are a few of us in Oz)

--
Greg Low (MVP)
MSDE Manager SQL Tools
www.whitebearconsulting.com

"Y" <yp2.nospam@spamnone.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> I passed 70-300 and became one of the few MCSD .NETs in Sydney, Australia.
>
> I became MCAD Charter member (in the first 5000) in April, so I am
> assuming that there aren't too many MCSD .NETs around yet. I will
> become an MCT in the next month and hope to teach short courses either
> through some training organisation in Sydney or through UTS (University
> of Technology Sydney).
>
> The exams I took in order were:
>
> 70–315 (Web Applications with C#)
> - Configuration and security aspects get a bit tricky. Having a decent
> background knowledge of ASP.NET helps.
>
> 70–316 (Windows Applications with C#)
> - Relatively straight forward especially if you have lots of java
> experience. Security and assembly management does get a bit tricky. In
> hindsight, I should have taken this exam first.
>
> 70–320 (XML Web Services with C#)
> - You really have to understand the ins and outs of .NET Remoting for
> this one. I think 'WebMethod Attributes' are really cludgy, but you
> learn to live with them. Details of DOM, XMLReader, XPath and
> understanding the XML generated from SQL server based on your query are
> the joys of this exam.
>
> 70–229 (SQL Server)
> - Lots of information, lots of detail. I mainly used the Microsoft
> book and CodeClinic to study for the exam. This is one exam where I
> felt overwhelmed by low level details to remember.
>
> 70–300 (Analyzing Requirements and Architectures)
> - I was expecting this one to be the hardest exam, but it turned out to
> be reasonable. I used Microsoft's book to prepare for it. This might
> be the one book I keep as I really enjoyed reading it, but for exam
> purposes the case studies and the sample exam included in the book is
weak.
>
>
> I have many years of experience as a developer and a university
> lecturer. While the exams were not 'rocket science', they all required
> reading through a couple of books and reviewing Microsoft specific
material.
>
> Good luck to all taking exams. If you'd like to hire me in a month to
> teach one of the .NET courses in Sydney, email me at
> yp2.junk@junk.yahoo.com
>
> Y
>
> PS: If you cannot decipher my email address, you just failed my limited
> Turing test.
>

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