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I am actually peparing to my 2 lasat exam for beeing MCAD and the one I am
studying now is the Web application part. I already got my Windows
application cert quite easily because I am working all days on that type of
application for customer so it helps me a lot.
For the exam that I preparing now, the Web application with ASP.net, its a
bit hard for me o start because I have never been involved yet in such real
ASP project.
So I was wondering if you could give me a tip in order to start studying
easily and in a correct way. I give myself one month delay to succeed for
this exam
How should I approach this study ? should I build a real ASP application of
my choice as a sample project ?
THnaks for your experience recommandation
regards
serge
I found the Web Applications exam to be the most difficult. I think this was
probably because I come from a similar background to you. I mostly do
Windows apps, together with a few backend services such as Windows Services
and Remoting. Although I have done Web front-ends from time to time, I
always have a book open next to me while I'm doing them.
I would begin by ensuring you are very familiar with all the web controls -
the methods, properties and events of each one, and exactly how they are
included in an ASP.Net page. There were lots of questions on this, and I
often struggled on the details of these. There were also a lot of question
on accessing remote Web Services, so make sure you know exactly how to do
this. Lastly, there was a few giveaway questions on Deployment. These are
great because the topic is pretty simple and once you know it, you can
answer the questions easily. Of course there were also plenty of ADO.Net
questions, mostly related to retrieving a dataset from a web service,
updating it and then sending back the changes.
One thing I did notice on this exam was that many of the questions were
extremely long, much longer than any of the other exams. I found it
difficult not to be intimidated by the amount of detail given in a question
but the truth is that often this was just 'scene setting' and did not
actually impact the answer.
A good approach would probably be to build a simple web service that returns
a dataset in response to a database query. Then write a shared assembly
which you should strongly name and install in the GAC. This shared assembly
should include all the logic to access the web service and retrieve the
dataset. Then write a web front end with lots of data bound controls to
display the contents of the dataset (preferably hand-coding all of the html
rather than dragging the controls onto the page). Add some validation to
individual controls and a facility to send back the database changes. Build
a deployment project for the web front-end and the shared assembly.
Regards,
David.
I have post one topic here about a small report analysis project on which I
do not really know how to approach it fro my final user.
Would it be possible for you to check my post and may be give me an idea of
solution ?
The post is named : Help me too choose
The 3rd topic below yours
Thnaks agin
Regards,
David.
AP
In an earlier discussion on this newsgroup, a number of people were debating
whether certification was good for your career. I noticed that a couple of
people mentioned that, as recruiters, they would regard it as a negative
point if someone just scraped a pass and they would have been better off not
mentioning it at all.
Regards,
David.
I took recently the 70-315 exam, and I didn't pass it with shining scores,
however, I have a live website running under ASP.NET for one of my
customers, and at the same time, I'm migrating (aka rewriting) the ASP
project into ASP.NET, and I can defend my point, that if a developer can
demonstrate what he claims to know with live websites, or software projects
developed, who the hell would care about your score?
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I guess the point that I was making is that if there is a trend for at least
some employers to look at your score, you should attempt to make life easier
for yourself by aiming for the highest possible score rather than just a
pass in the shortest time possible. Personally I believe that once you have
a track record, the certification should not matter too much, except perhaps
to show that you have a good allround technical understanding, and that you
have kept your skills current.
Regards,
David.
"David Kavanagh" <david.k...@contension.com> wrote in message
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On the subject of braindumps, I never even knew they existed, or at least
wouldn't have believed they contained genuine questions, if it wasn't for
the number of people complaining about them on this newsgroup. Every time
they are mentioned, this becomes a great advert for them!
David.
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So as it turns out I only studied for Web apps for about a week (full time)
and passed the first time which has not been the case for any of the other
exams given I dont have any real life experience. The windows exam I studied
a TON (6 full times weeks I think) so much of what I learned there spilled
over to the web apps test. Pure luck on the questions I had.
Someone green (like me) can understand what something IS, but its also
helpful to understand what something IS NOT. Surprisingly that is not as
intutive as one might think.
Furthermore, firms use their employees as their "resume" for clients and the
more certified people you have on your staff the better. So if I am looking
to fill a position that requires X years of experience I would perfer
canidates at that level to be certified rather then not regardless of the
score.
I am a HUGE advocate of cerifications but in no way do I think they replace
experience. They just give candidates of same given experience an advantage
(or at least should).
The question I have for naysayers of certs is this "give the same level of
experience what should a canidate of that level do that shows a competive
edge against others of the same level"?
Perhaps why there are so many naysayers of certs is becuase they are being
given positions higher up then what reflects their job experience and if that
is what has been going on I can understand the resentment. I do certs just to
compete among people in my same level of experience.
Unfortunately, certifications are not viewed very highly in some
organizations. I suspect this might be because those doing the recruiting
often do not have them and so either do not know how difficult they are, or
feel insecure. I've noticed similar behaviour with those with college
degrees - if they have one, they insist that everyone has one, if they
don't, they think they are worthless.
David.
Although I've never seen them, I believe that when people refer to
braindumps, they are not referring to practice questions, but to the actual
questions that have somehow been smuggled out of the exam and published,
together with supposedly correct answers. Whether they are real or not I
wouldn't know, but if they are then this is cheating.
David
First of all: congrats!
I find it reassuring that an experienced developper can pass the exams
with the knowledge he acquired on the job.
I confirm the observations you made about the exams. You have to know
your stuff, but there is also a question-solving strategy you must
follow to be really succesful on your exam. Your post details this
strategy far better than I ever could.
70-300 is a case study exam. The case studies (3 in total) are several
screens long, and you have around 10 questions.
This is my strategy:
1) Read the case study twice to understand the requirements before you
start reading the questions.
2) Read and answer each question while refering back to the relevant
portions of the case study (you'll have a global understanding of it
after having it read twice and remember where to find the details
relevant to the question)
3) Some of the questions will have more than one technical correct
answer. You'll have to take the requirements into account to select the
best answer. For example, the case study could mention that you don't
have the budget to buy a new server. The you know that installing your
web application on a new IIS server is not the correct answer.
4) Mark questions that give you a problem for review and move on to the
next question
5) Reread the full case study and review your marked questions.
If found that a lot of questions could be answered by careful reading
of the case study, without the use of any other knowledge you might
have.
And you don't need to know MFS to pass this exam. I had a few
methodology questions, but they were so general that common sense and
experience with multi-programmer development projects was enough to
know what to answer.
I've also applied this strategy with success on exam 70-298.
DST
I do have a couple of questions:
Did you prepare specifically for this exam, or was your on-the-job
experience sufficient?
Did you find time to be a problem in this exam? I've seen this mentioned a
couple of times.
Thanks again,
David.
Time was not a problem (I think it took me about one hour). But be
aware that I get a "Time extension for non-native English speaker
living in non-English-speaking country" (30 minutes).
I've been writing software for 25 years now (15 years professionaly),
I've worked on small one-man projects and large projects, I've been a
project manager of a team of 10 developpers, I've done projects were
I've only had to program and others were I had the full life cycle,
including the installation and maintenance of servers (IIS, SQL), ...
What I mean is: my experience is broad and diverse, and this helped me
a lot with exam 70-300.
Good luck on your exam!
DST
If you have experience and can provide proof of your work, your
certification gets an individual value at your favor, even if the recruiter
is reluctant on certifications.
If a developer has experience, it doesn't have to be hard to write the code
required to solve a business problem and if the developer has certification,
this gives more credibility and respect for himself/herself and coworkers
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