MCTS in WCF

Published Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:55 PM

So a little while ago, I mentioned that I did a WCF beta exam for a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist. Its been a long time since I did that and I had kinda forgotten about it, but today I received the good news that I am now a MCTS in WCF!

WooHoo!

I really thought I had bombed that exam due to the very little prep that I had done, but fortunately that is not the case.

I would love to hear from anybody else (particularly any fellow australians) who have also done the beta exam and received their congratulatory email.

by Glav
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# Grant said on Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:02 AM

Congrats Glav! I remember you thinking that one was a little tricky :)

# Glav said on Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:40 AM

Thanks heaps Grant.

# Iain said on Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:07 PM

Hey mate,

Well done! They sure took their time for the results to come out!

Im from melbourne and had the same pleasent suprise just yesterday. Likewise I thought there was good chance of bombing it due cramming for it only a week or so before the exam. No complaints with a pass though.

Do you know if they (prometric) send out scores out to us by mail?

Curious to see how close to the mark I came, I know there were some obvious questions I screwed up due to exam brain explosion! ;-)

# Glav said on Monday, April 21, 2008 1:28 AM

Hi Iain,

Thanks for the kind words and congrats to yourself as well.

To be honest I have no idea if they mail out the scores or not. I would also love to find out where I did good and bad. Given they took a fair while for the results and the beta's are more self managed than normal exams, I wouldn't be surprised if we dont see them tho.

# Eileen Rumwell said on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:34 AM

Hi Glavs - Why did you take the WCF exam?  What got your interest?  I work on product management at Microsoft (for WCF) and would love to know more about what led you to the exam and interest in WCF.

# Glav said on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:01 PM

Well WCF is something I am very keenly interested in. The beta exam in particular was free and thought it was a good learning opportunity if nothing else. It gave me an idea of what is required, and I didn't expect to pass the beta exam as it was a quick decision to do it at the time. So, to answer your queston properly, it was the learning experience first and foremost. Actually passing it was a big bonus ofcourse. WCF is of particular interest because I think its one the better pieces of technology to come out of Microsoft in terms of design and functionality and a key piece og building applications in the future.

# rohit said on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:04 PM

Hey Glav,

Do you have some kind of practice papers or other related stuff for the same as i am also preparing for this exam(MCTS in WCF)

Thanks in Advance

Rohit

# Glav said on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:51 PM

Hi Rohit, I just used the recommended information that MS provides on their site describing the certification. I did a lot of reading of various books by Juval Lowy and Justin King as well. Make sure you know claims reasonably well.

# caral amie said on Sunday, June 14, 2009 4:35 AM

nice main very good information i was looking for my exams training,i found many post but your's is very useful, Hay i found http://www.testkingdom.com also very useful site, i get training from them and pass my certification on the first attempt.

thank you  

# hannan said on Friday, October 16, 2009 4:54 AM

in my opinion, the key to pass the microsoft certification is to get a good book and do practice and practice ,practice .

some online resoures from www.microsoftebook.com

or microsoftpdf.com ,could be useful for u.

# King said on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:28 AM

Oh ,well done!!

In my opinion, some advice or experience from the microsoft certfication blog such as microsoftkit.com or weblogs .com  is very useful for us,which can help us better prepare my exam.

SO,please share us your experience ,Glav.

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