Hi
I a student in my final term of my Computer Science Bachelor Degree. I really like doing web programming especially with ASP.NET. For the last 2 years I been programming on and off in .Net. Since I am usually taking about 7 courses a semester and not much time to play around with .Net. Every time I had a break like summer break I decided to make some websites to get practice in .Net since my program only offered one course in .Net.
Currently for the last 5 months I been doing nothing but ASP.NET MVC programming with jquery as I have an 18 credit practicum that I must complete to graduate and was able to get a project that uses .NET.
I am subscribed to some Microsoft news letter and I found out they have some promotion called double shot or something like that if you fail the exam you can take it for free again. Now I am not planning to fail but it's good to have anyways, plus I am a student so I get like 50% off any exam ending in "72".
I also heard that my school might even pay for students to take certification exams for free so I want to verify this too but either way I would like to take advantage the student discount.
Now as I described before I been doing .Net on and off and lately only have been doing ASP.NET MVC and as far as I know there is no .NET MVC exam so I am not really sure what exam I should take?
Also I probably going to need to study alot for the exam as I probably don't know much of the stuff on the exam since there are usually a couple different ways to program something.
For instance if they ask anything about .NET Ajax I probably won't know anything about it I used it like once since I rather use Jquery or another example would be the data source. I don't use this very much in the projects. Currently I am tutoring some students in .NET and it seems like for every little thing the teacher wants them to use a data source.
They have a drop down list that needs to be populated. Go drag another data source on the web forms go through the wizard to write the one sql statement it can do and bind it to the data source.
Then the next control down lets drag another data source in to bind it. Yet if I was doing I probably have a 3 tier arch that gets all the records and then bind that way.
So things like this worry me about so I need lots of resources to study so I can learn how Microsoft preferred way is (Even though in the end I probably will still do the way that works for me but at least I might learn some new ways to solve a problem that are better then what I am doing currently).
Sorry for the long post but I just wanted to you guys to know where I am at right now.
To sum it up
- What exam should I start off with?
- Where can I get exam practice questions and other materials to study?
Thanks