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Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Mock Exam for 70-316 Passed (Finally!)

Good news people, I have finally passed the mock for 70-316. Although I am still not 100% confident on passing the thing for real, I am feeling a lot more confident each and every day.

The new job is really helping and paying dividends, I am no longer having to "translate" code in my mind when at work and at home. Sounds like no big deal, and I guess in many ways its not.. But it IS helping. I guess its like any language, be it code, vocal, written whatever, the more you use it, the better you get with it.

The mock did highlight some weak areas which I still need to work on:

Data Access
Seems I am still having problems, I think this is probably because I haven't done a great deal of DAL design and implementation at this stage. I am still getting caught by the odd red-herrings thrown into a question to throw you off (i.e. DataAdapter.Update or DataTable.Update).

Code Access Security
Keeps god damn getting me, and the annoying thing is, pretty much everyone I asked who I am in touch with in the dev world say they never use it! Grrrr!

Oh well, its all fun and games really =)

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