Planning to clear MCSD.Net

Hello everyone! Can someone guide me to clear 70-305/306/300 & 70-229.
Your invaluable guidance will be highly appreciated.



Frankly, with no source of information and at present working in Abu
Dhabi i've almost no source of info for this. I'm planning for vacation
in near future and would like to clear MCSD.Net in that time.


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aliFiroz

>Frankly, with no source of information

What's wrong with the product documentation and the prep guide??

Kline Sphere

There is no product documentation for 70-300 because there
is no single product that the test covers. The test
involves Design, Requirements Analysis, and
(supposedly) .NET Architecture. Also, the Microsoft Prep
Guide is nearly useless....in fact I wish I had not
devoted so much time to reading it, and the other books on
UML referred to in the study guide.

I passed this test about a month ago...here's what I would
do if I had it to take all over again: Get the Exam Cram
book for 70-300. Read it thoroughly. It covers a wide
range of topics ranging from design and analysis
techniques to deployment strategies to standards to
security.authentication. It's a whole kettle of fish.
Then, if there's any topics you do not feel you know very,
very well...read MSDN articles - and whatever else you can
get a hold of - on those specific topics.

One caveat: I noticed a few details in terms of the
Microsoft Solutions Framework, where the Exam Cram book
didn't completly agree with the MSDN stuff....things like
what types of deliverables or milestones are involved in
which project phases, etc. Obviously, you want to go with
the MSDN version for anything that comes up on the test.

Good Luck!
>-----Original Message-----
>>Frankly, with no source of information
>
>What's wrong with the product documentation and the prep
guide??
>.
>

Rich

>I passed this test about a month ago...here's what I would
>do if I had it to take all over again: Get the Exam Cram
>book for 70-300. Read it thoroughly. It covers a wide
>range of topics ranging from design and analysis
>techniques to deployment strategies to standards to
>security.authentication. It's a whole kettle of fish.
>Then, if there's any topics you do not feel you know very,
>very well...read MSDN articles - and whatever else you can
>get a hold of - on those specific topics.

The 70-300 'should' be simple for anyone who works in software
development within a microsoft dot net environment. The case studies
contain the answers within, and can be deduced by anyone who has ever
sat down and asked a customer/client 'what do you want?' and took the
results, refined them and produced design[s] from the information
gathered. The other questions relating to dot net simple require a
[fairly] basic understanding of a number of the tools, technologies
etc within dot net, windows & vs environment.

>One caveat: I noticed a few details in terms of the
>Microsoft Solutions Framework, where the Exam Cram book
>didn't completly agree with the MSDN stuff....things like
>what types of deliverables or milestones are involved in
>which project phases, etc. Obviously, you want to go with
>the MSDN version for anything that comes up on the test.

People seem to put to much emphasize on the msf. The msf is
microsoft's own process model based around the spiral model and should
not be seen as a 'one size fits all' model. In the real world
companies would develop there own process models which would be used
depending on the type and nature of the problem to be solved.

Kline Sphere

Thanks for your invaluable tips and guidance Rich and others. Can u
tell me the approach/books/study materials for other exams namely 70-
305,306 and 229.



I'm working for last 5 years with VB/COM etc, this .Net has again
uprooted me. Although good grip of OOPs and Java basics I'm finding
VB.Net much easier and systematic.



Thanks in advance.

Ali



Originally posted by Rich

> There is no product documentation for 70-300 because there

> is no single product that the test covers. The test

> involves Design, Requirements Analysis, and

> (supposedly) .NET Architecture. Also, the Microsoft Prep

> Guide is nearly useless....in fact I wish I had not

> devoted so much time to reading it, and the other books on

> UML referred to in the study guide.

>

> I passed this test about a month ago...here's what I would

> do if I had it to take all over again: Get the Exam Cram

> book for 70-300. Read it thoroughly. It covers a wide

> range of topics ranging from design and analysis

> techniques to deployment strategies to standards to

> security.authentication. It's a whole kettle of fish.

> Then, if there's any topics you do not feel you know very,

> very well...read MSDN articles - and whatever else you can

> get a hold of - on those specific topics.

>

> One caveat: I noticed a few details in terms of the

> Microsoft Solutions Framework, where the Exam Cram book

> didn't completly agree with the MSDN stuff....things like

> what types of deliverables or milestones are involved in

> which project phases, etc. Obviously, you want to go with

> the MSDN version for anything that comes up on the test.

>

> Good Luck!

> >-----Original Message-----

> >>Frankly, with no source of information

> >What's wrong with the product documentation and the prep

> guide??

>.


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aliFiroz

Hi,

I would suggest the official curriculam for the rest of
the exams other than 70300. Also, refer to code snippets
and architecture documents on MSDN.

70300 i beleive is a piece of cake. I am thinking that MS
exams are getting more and more predictive day by day. It
feels like its a Marketing strategy by MS where only
things that refer to MS technologies are correct rest
everything is wrong!!

Sarang

Thanks everybody here.



I'hv started with downloading and reading materials from different
websites. All these reading uptil I come across any book(s) which is a
complete reference for the said courses.





Thanks.....


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