Tuesday, April 3, 2007 9:00 AM by Michael Paladino
Since one of the main purposes of this blog is to serve as a record of my studies towards Microsoft certification, I thought I would talk a bit about the certification process as I understand it. My goal is to become a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Application Developer. In order to acheive that, I will need to pass 5 exams earning certifications as a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in the following areas along the way: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications, Web Applications, and Distributed Applications. The image below shows which exams I will be taking and which certifications I will receive after passing each:
My first exam will be Exam 70-536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Application Development Foundation. I have purchased the following Microsoft recommended books:
I will be reading these books and going through the included sample exam questions. After finishing those, I will evaluate whether or not I need to do further training before taking the exam. I've done a lot of .NET programming over the last three years, but have not covered nearly the breadth of information included in these exams. I've committed to spending 4 hours a week studying. That number may have to be adjusted to get through the material a bit quicker. This should be fun!
