SYNOPSIS MCAD .NETvs MCDBAvs MCSD .NETvs
Microsoft’s
exam 70-315 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual
C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is a core requirement for the MCSD
(Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) for Microsoft .NET certification and
is a core or elective requirement for the MCAD (Microsoft Certified Application
Developer) certification. It is designed for candidates who work on a team in
a medium or large development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET, Enterprise Developer Edition. There is no specific prerequisite for this
exam but Microsoft recommends that candidates have at least one year of
experience developing Web-based applications and have a working knowledge of
Microsoft Visual C# .NET.
Exam 70-315 is also
an elective for this other certification: MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database
Administrator) on SQL Server 2000 on SQL Server 2000.
The
domains covered by this exam include:
Creating
User Services
Creating
and Managing Components and .NET Assemblies
I wrote this after writing 70-320. I used Kalani's books for both exams. The exam was tough, but all but 5 (out of 55) questions were from Kalani's book.
There's a lot of overlap between 70-320 and 70-315 (and 70-316, for that matter).