Good to get MCSD for MS.NET, after started working on .NET 2 years ago(incl. Beta period). Marius, Thank you my friend for all the guidance.
The order I've taken :229, 315, 320, 316, 300. I felt 229 & 320 hard. I can understand 320 b/c I've little experience with Remoting, but surprisingly 229 toped my list.... after considering the fact that I am reasonably good at databases. :)
Books/resources that i've read(also useful for the Exam). (Apart from msdn..).
Applied MS.NET Framework(Jeffrey Richter), (.NET componets(Oreilly - Juval Lowy), Prof ASP.NET Webservices(wrox), Prof. ASP.NET(wrox), ADO.NET(David Sceppa), Advanced .NET Remoting(Ingo Rammer).
Found ADO.NET, Building, Deployment, Debugging, Security topics repeat on different exams, so if you read thoroughly once, it'll be taken care for all other exams.
Happy Prog'g !
You can request Betas from MS here...
http://www.betaplace.com/betaplace/content/AboutBetaPlace.htm
It looks like there are too many of them requesting..... but hey ... who knows you'll be testing Yukon/Whidbey/Orcas... ;)
Pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaase drop me a note, if you know a better way of getting into Beta Testing.
First things First !
Donny, Thank you so much for setting me up with a web log, just within 30 mins of my request - Amazing ! But I didn't think that I'd be the first (well second) to sign up here ;) ..
I am sure that this will evlove into a very good SQL community.
Welcome and Good Luck to one and all !