After about a week’s time of reviewing and studying, today I took my first step towards getting my MCxD (x = A or S, Microsoft Certified Application/Solution Developer consisting of 5 different exams) certification by passing an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) exam in Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET . I have been planing to do this for some time, but you have to know the subjects fairly well in details before writing such an exam and on a day to day basis, you don’t wonder around the entire .NET framework exactly.

Going to the exam this morning I didn’t feel too hopeful after another late night study having not passed the practice exam, even though I felt I knew the subjects well. The real test didn’t start too well either with the four first questions being completely vague and difficult to understand what I was being asked about. Past that though it was nice and smooth until I went back to review the four first questions before submitting. Once I pressed the review button, I got an I/O disk write delay and failure followed by the crash of the exam application. Not a nice feeling after 2 hours of answering questions. So after the help of the staff of the Mediatek test center here in Haifa, thankfully, the application was keeping the state so I could continue where I left off with 10 minutes to go. And the score, 870 out of 1000 where 700 was needed to pass. You can even authenticate my passing here