Sasha Sydoruk

I passed this exam a month ago, just didn’t have time to write about it. This is my second exam in the .NET certification route and that means that I am officially MCTS now. Fear my power!

I was pleasantly surprised by the study guide and the exam itself. I have been doing asp.net for 5 years now and I still learned some new stuff.

Which proves that everybody should get certified and not for the official MS welcome kit, which is really lame, but to make sure that one has good understanding what .net and asp.net have to offer and not to reinvent the wheel.

Well, a couple of months back I passed 70-510. It took me around 20 days to prepare for it.

The exam is pretty difficult with a lot of focus on command line tools. By the way, talking about command line tools in TFS - Did MS really intend to make command line arguments different from one tool to another? What a mess, impossible to remember… I hope the vNext will resolve this absurdity and we all will move on with our lives. TFS team needs to hire a command line tool syntax usability expert.

To sum it up - I am really glad I took the exam. TFS is an awesome tool and studying for the exam really helped me understand how great TFS is. Too bad I don’t use it at my new place.

On November 19th, I took and passed 70-536 exam. The exam was not very difficult. Of course there were some questions that made me think for a while, but other than that the exam was quite good. The question breakdown from MSDN was quite accurate; so make sure that you pay good attention to security, data compression, file IO and serialization.

For my exam preparation I used the following materials:
1. The book
2. Transcender
3. A lot of hours reading MSDN. A lot of the information can be found only there.

My next step is 70-528. I already have the book and already past chapter 2.