MCAD
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I have 9 months experience in VC++. I'm planning to do MCAD certification. Is this a correct decision? Can someone give me better suggestions? How much of experience do I need for MCSD? Thanks, Dipeka:confused: Dipeka.A.J
Well the exams will be using VB.NET or C# and not C++ at all. So definately be comfortable with the other languages (whichever one you choose). As for the MCSD, there is am exam that alot of people find difficult, 70-300. Alot of people fail this on their first time because they re unprepared for the topic. If you are good at requirements analysis and databases, then this exam might be ok for you. But I think that at only 9 months of experience, that the MCSD is something that you might not want to go for just yet. As MS makes the diiference between the two is that the MCAD is a developer of a project, a MCSD is the software engineer or architect. For MCSD you focus on all phases of a softwares lifecycle where for MCAD you might only focus on development and afterwards and not the analysis and design. Hope this helps. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD
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Well the exams will be using VB.NET or C# and not C++ at all. So definately be comfortable with the other languages (whichever one you choose). As for the MCSD, there is am exam that alot of people find difficult, 70-300. Alot of people fail this on their first time because they re unprepared for the topic. If you are good at requirements analysis and databases, then this exam might be ok for you. But I think that at only 9 months of experience, that the MCSD is something that you might not want to go for just yet. As MS makes the diiference between the two is that the MCAD is a developer of a project, a MCSD is the software engineer or architect. For MCSD you focus on all phases of a softwares lifecycle where for MCAD you might only focus on development and afterwards and not the analysis and design. Hope this helps. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD
Steve Maier wrote: But I think that at only 9 months of experience, that the MCSD is something that you might not want to go for just yet. Agreed. I had 5+ years of experience with MFC before I took my first MCSD exam. I did well on all questions except the two that were specific to GDI. I think they had something to do with mapping coordinates and drawing shapes, neither of which I had done, nor have I done them today.
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Well the exams will be using VB.NET or C# and not C++ at all. So definately be comfortable with the other languages (whichever one you choose). As for the MCSD, there is am exam that alot of people find difficult, 70-300. Alot of people fail this on their first time because they re unprepared for the topic. If you are good at requirements analysis and databases, then this exam might be ok for you. But I think that at only 9 months of experience, that the MCSD is something that you might not want to go for just yet. As MS makes the diiference between the two is that the MCAD is a developer of a project, a MCSD is the software engineer or architect. For MCSD you focus on all phases of a softwares lifecycle where for MCAD you might only focus on development and afterwards and not the analysis and design. Hope this helps. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD
On a side note, going for your MCAD will lead you to the MCSD....the MCSD and MCAD certifications share several exams, 2 of which in the MCAD core requirements are also core requirements for the MCSD.