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My Experience

Learning new technologies is the great thing, exploring the knowledge is the great way to proof your skill.

Nowadays jobs are really really need the real and well trained people to work on them, you don't really need to sit and join all short courses, University classes, and any. You can also learn from home, reading books, use your working experience base on your specialist subject, and when you feel you are good enough and want to proof your skill, you can!!!

You can Take any Exam base on your specialist subject, for example Building WPF Application with .NET 3.5 ( MCTS: 70-502) WCF (MCTS 70-503)...

You can learn more about its benefit here: Microsoft MCP

Or get the Datasheet here: Datasheet

Now talking about me, my experience on my first MCTS exam.

What is MCTS? MCTS = Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist,

I won't describe much detail about it, you can learn more about it here

If you are the developer you'll need to take these exams: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5

Each MCTS certification requires Exam 70-536 and one specialized exam.

I took MCTS 70-502, MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Presentation Foundation Applications at ONG institute. and I got 952/1000.

The Full Score is 1000 and the passing score is 700.

This exam requires at least one year experience on Building WPF application, yes I did :-D, but it's not enough.

So What's more? Yes, that's why I want to share my preparation experience to you.

There are many great books and resources about WPF but only a few that can help you to the right place.

First I read this information: MCTS Exam 70-502

Next I read any new blog post Watch Video at : WindowsClient.NET

And finally I read these Great books:

Easy to Read and Easy to Understand

Real Story of WPF, and Build it with Latest Tools (.NET 3.5 SP1)

Ready to Learn about           What are the topics that cover           in the exam and get new tips.

•      Read them step by step, page by page, line by line, word by word, never skip any pages even if you think you are already know it, but you still need to read it again.

  ·     Don't copy and paste the codes from the books, type it one by one.

  ·     Read the books and find out you are really understand about them, before you go to practice it on your PC.

  ·     These 3 books and the web resources above are enough for you to pass the exam if you learn if by heart.

  ·     You should prepare at least 2 months before the exam day,

  And what's my next journey to my Certification?

  I'm planning to take MCTS-70-505, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Forms Application Development.

  Now I'm preparing the learning Materials, I'll update about once I've done,

  And finally, I would like to thanks to Maria for offering me a great MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-505) book from Microsoft Press,

  This is a great book for starting my training for the next exam.

  Hey, are you ready?

  Let's pass exams together.

  Thanks

  Piseth