{"id":909,"date":"2004-01-21T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-909.html"},"modified":"2005-08-28T00:26:38","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T00:26:38","slug":"exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/01\/21\/exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just passed the Microsoft exam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/exams\/70-315.asp\">70-315<\/a> this morning.  This is the second of five exams I need under my belt to gain the MCSD.NET (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/mcp\/mcsd\/\">Microsoft Certified Solution Developer<\/a>) certification.  I qualified as an MCSD on the old Visual Basic 6 track back in 2000, but the new .NET track will certify me on all the juicy goodness in C# and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/net\/\">.NET framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know my .NET stuff already, but as an consultant\/contractor, the MCSD certification provides potential clients with some evidence of this ability.  On the other hand, it looks like I&#8217;ve just landed a contract (due to start in February), so the absence of the certification certainly isn&#8217;t a barrier to getting work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to take some of the last three exams in the next few weeks, but with the new baby due this Saturday (!), I&#8217;m not sure quite how much study time I&#8217;m going to be able to put in&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just passed the Microsoft exam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/exams\/70-315.asp\">70-315<\/a> this morning.  This is the second of five exams I need under my belt to gain the MCSD.NET (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/mcp\/mcsd\/\">Microsoft Certified Solution Developer<\/a>) certification.  I qualified as an MCSD on the old Visual Basic 6 track back in 2000, but the new .NET track will certify me on all the juicy goodness in C# and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/net\/\">.NET framework.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}