Microsoft Exam 70-536 : Passed!
I took my second Microsoft cert today, the 70-536 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Application Development Foundation, and passed with a score of 1000. I’m pretty chuffed again. This exam was much more difficult and more than the 70-547 I passed before Christmas. There were lots of questions that you either knew the answer to, or you didn’t. I had spent a lot of time revising constructors and overloaded constructors to common .Net classes and it certainly paid off. I revised quite a bit of the holiday period using the Microsoft training kit mentioned in my previous exam post.
So only one exam to go until I am MCPD and it seems to be the easiest exam of the set, so I am not going to revise at all and just take my chances on the day. I am planning to take it this time next week and will update here on my progress.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
hi
i am going to give my 1st exam 70-536
i studied on microsoft training kit, dumps from cd & actual test question.
is it sufficient to clear exam
what is the diffuculty level ?
pls. guide
January 16th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Congratulations on passing the exam
My manager has set me the task of taking and passing the exam within 2 months.
People I have spoken to say this is too short and an unreasonable objective. What’s your view on this / How long did you study for? I’m trying to find out if I should go back to my manager saying it’s no possible.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Hi Richard, Thanks for the comment
I studied for these exams while my daughter was very young, so I spent days and nights with her in one arm and a book in the other as I really couldnt do much else. As I was able to dedicate a large uninterrupted block of time to the study the learning process was quite smooth and I went from study to passing in about a month.
If you work daily with ASP.NET and are confident in your abilities and you dedicate all your spare time to study as I did, 2 months is not entirely unreasonable. The main thing is to be aware of the skills you have, the skills you need and the time you think it will take for both levels to converge. Only you will know if that will take 2 months or not.
This exam was the hardest out of the 3 I took but with the right amount of dedication you should breeze it.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Thank you for the reply
I appreciate the comments and it helps to get some advice from someone who’s been there, done that, got the t-shirt (nearly).
I’ll carry on with my studying and hope that my couple of hours a day for a few days a week is sufficient to pass. Good luck with any other exams you’re planning to take!