5/15/2007 Now, I'm a "MCPD - Enterprise Application Developer for .NET 2.0"

Posted at: 5/15/2007 at 6:58 PM by saravana
I recently obtained my MCPD (Enterprise Applications Developer) credentials. I'll admit probably this is one thing which stayed in my TODO list for more than a year. Microsoft re-organised their certification program after the release of Visual Studio 2005, .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. Not everyone is aware of this new certification model and its requires some explanation here. According to new certification model, the two main categories of certification for people on Softwar... [More]
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3/7/2007 Passed 70-235. Here is my Exam Preparation Diary.

Posted at: 3/7/2007 at 12:20 AM by saravana
TS: Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 was in my TODO list for a very long time. My last exam  was 74-135 BizTalk 2004 Exam way back in April 2005. So I decided to write the exam on 5th of March 2007. I did some search to gather as much information as I can to prepare for the exam. For this exam I need to pull materials from variety of sources like MSDN, Blogs, WebCasts, Books, MS e-Learning and Product documentation. It too... [More]
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4/18/2005 Intersting tips I came across while preparing for the exam.

Posted at: 4/18/2005 at 4:20 AM by saravana
Here are some of the intersting points I came across while I was preparing for the Biztalk sever partner competency exam: Point 1: If you performed a custom installation including Development-only or Administration Tools-only, you must Join rather than Create a BizTalk group during configuration Point 2: You can upgrade from Partner to Standard, Partner to Enterprise, Standard to Enterprise, and Evaluation to Enterprise. You cannot upgrade from Developer to Partner, Developer to Standa... [More]
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4/8/2005 Passed 74-135 Biztalk 2004 Exam

Posted at: 4/8/2005 at 4:41 PM by saravana
Took the exam this afternoon and cleared it. Phew! One of toughest MS exams I've taken. Just theoretical knowledge will not help to pass this paper. I feel some of the questions are really easy ones, which you can answer directly without thinking too much for example, having a key file to deploy the assembly (I'm not sure whether its counted to the final score, because in the beginning they gave me this warning saying some of the questions are dummy and doesn't add any marks to th... [More]
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