Friday, August 29, 2008 9:34 AM
Finally I was able to button up my MCPD Enterprise. I have been sitting around with the need to take that one last exam and get everything all buttoned up, but with the amount of work I have been doing over the last year or so it has been virtually impossible to get my certification taken care of. As luck would have it I have run in to a quiet period between contracts and was able to on a whim go to a testing center and get the test over with.
I will say that I was not overly impressed with the test. I took 70-549 Design and Architecture exam. I was really hoping to see more design questions. I guess I like the thrill of the puzzle, but I only encountered a couple of questions that I considered actual design questions. Otherwise the rest was more technology focused, meaning that the questions were more like select the correct technology to perform this task.
I was surprised however by the fact I did run in to a couple of blatant trick questions. I actually laughed a couple of times when I ran in to them. Just because if you are one of those speed reading test freaks you probably would have totally breezed past the key parts of the question and answered it incorrectly. I am not quite the speed reader which I am sure what saved me.
Overall, the test is a good test. It definitely is challenging, but I would have liked to see more design questions on it.
Michael MCPD