I just certified brainbench in sql server 2005 programming and asp.net
2.0 Today. An recruiter requested that I take the those two and
VB.NET. I passed both exams easily just on working knowledge.
However, looking that the outline for vb.net, I think I'm going to be
in trouble. Seems real heavy in OOP and I anticipate lots things I
just don't store in my head. When it comes to vb.net, i have a huge
personal library of scripts that seem to cover most everything Ive
been doing for the last 3 years so I find myself mostly slapping code
together.
Any suggestions on how might be able to prep for it? Also, FYI, I've
got zero work on Winforms and Remoting. And I'm pretty sure my style
of debugging is not textbook. One observation about Certs (and I'm
also MCAD), If you are a solid developer with numerious application
developed under your belt in the technology, it's no guarantee you
will easily certify without hitting the books. However, the mere
effort to certify after real world experience can be a real eye opener
to technology you thought you really knew . I am proof you can build
real great systems by virtue of experimenting and prototyping alone.
BrainBench gives you 3 minutes a question. Which might not seem like a
lot, but I can usually find my answer online in 1 minute. Usually you
can discount multiple wrong answers by searching for them. A few times
I found the answer with less than 10 seconds to go. I do like the
brainbench format. Given the items below, where would be a good place
where I could enter something like "Garbage Collection" and expect to
see all the critical English that if I were brainbench I would want to
source my question from. I would imagine MSDN, but many of their
questions that seem official in nature did not come from those pages.
Here's the outline:
Number of questions = 40
Approximate completion time = 50.0 minutes
Test Type
Knowledge and Skills
Test Outline
Cl*****/Inheritance
Class Access Modifiers
Constructors/Finalizers
Garbage Collection
Inheritance
Interfaces
Polymorphism
Static vs. Instance Members
Consuming Resources
COM Interop
Global Assembly Cache
Threading
Using .NET Components
Using Web Services
Windows Native Calls
Data Access
ADO Providers
Data Adapter
Data Binding Controls
Data Command
Data View
SQL Server Access
XML Access
Debugging
Command Window
Configuring Debugging
Correcting Errors
Setting Watches
Tools
Tracing
Distributed Applications
Asynchronous Calls to Remote Components
Distributed Deployment Methods
Security
Language Fundamentals
Arrays, Collections, and Enumerations
Assemblies
Comparison
Error Handling
Functions
Loops and Branching
Operators and Operator Overloading
Properties
Scope
Types and Type Conversion
Web Forms
DataBinding
Dynamic Controls
HTML Controls
Intrinsic Objects
Web Controls
Windows Forms
Controls
Dialogs
Dynamic Controls
Thanks for any help or information.
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