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I will be finishing my Masters in CS in May 2006. I have 3 yrs of coding
experience during which I have worked on VB 6.0, VB.NET and JAVA. My next aim
is to crack MCAD...and want to start planning for that right from now.

1) How long would it take to on an averagre for a person whol has VS.NET
coding experiene for 2 yrs...to pass the exam. Just an approximation

2) I have heard that if you pass the exam with C#...its more beneficial,
since it resembles JAVA and eventually C# is going to rule...IS THIS TRUE.


Thanks,

Vishal Modi

> I will be finishing my Masters in CS in May 2006. I have 3 yrs of coding
> experience during which I have worked on VB 6.0, VB.NET and JAVA. My next aim
> is to crack MCAD...and want to start planning for that right from now.
>
> 1) How long would it take to on an averagre for a person whol has VS.NET
> coding experiene for 2 yrs...to pass the exam. Just an approximation

i'm just about to finish last exam in mcp-->mcad-->mcsd route.

personally, i like to spend at least a month (full time) on each exam;
ideally 2, but i am quite a slow reader. as a general heuristic, i'd
quantify that to one month per study book used. i found the MS Press
books poor, but Amit Kalani's superb. spending a month on each book,
completing all exercises, etc should give you good grades, esp if you
have 3 yrs s/w exp (providing this is from doing a day job rather than
from your master's).

> 2) I have heard that if you pass the exam with C#...its more beneficial,
> since it resembles JAVA and eventually C# is going to rule...IS THIS TRUE.

a philasophical question. who knows? it certainly seems plausible, the
way things are going.

good luck with it all

mark

Thanks Mark. I really appreciate your feedback.



Mark wrote:
> *> I will be finishing my Masters in CS in May 2006. I have 3 yrs of
> coding
> > experience during which I have worked on VB 6.0, VB.NET and JAVA.
> My next aim
> > is to crack MCAD...and want to start planning for that right from
> now.
> >
> > 1) How long would it take to on an averagre for a person whol has
> VS.NET
> > coding experiene for 2 yrs...to pass the exam. Just an
> approximation
>
> i'm just about to finish last exam in mcp-->mcad-->mcsd route.
>
> personally, i like to spend at least a month (full time) on each
> exam;
> ideally 2, but i am quite a slow reader. as a general heuristic,
> i'd
> quantify that to one month per study book used. i found the MS
> Press
> books poor, but Amit Kalani's superb. spending a month on each
> book,
> completing all exercises, etc should give you good grades, esp if
> you
> have 3 yrs s/w exp (providing this is from doing a day job rather
> than
> from your master's).
>
> > 2) I have heard that if you pass the exam with C#...its more
> beneficial,
> > since it resembles JAVA and eventually C# is going to rule...IS
> THIS TRUE.
>
> a philasophical question. who knows? it certainly seems plausible,
> the
> way things are going.
>
> good luck with it all
>
> mark *



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