Exam 70-315, Whoops, forgot about my test, and didn't study!

So here's how the story goes. Back in May I signed up to take the exam 70-315 (Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET), I signed up for a test date in July. I had never taken an MS exam, or even looked at a sample question, so I posted the following thread.

http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/archive/2005/06/28/416289.aspx

While there were some good sugggestions, I ended up postponing my test date to 8/23 because work was extremely busy (still is) and I hadn't prepared for the test at all. Fast forward to 8/22 at 9pm. I leave the St. Louis Indigo Road show, and look down at my phone, I get a notification that I have an appt the following day, my C# test at 1pm. Oh crap, that's right, I completely forgot about it. I had intended to reschedule again because of the major projects at work, but it was now too late.

I emailed my boss, told him I'd f'd up, was going to fail this test if I even went to take it, not knowing if I'd be able to even go due to the work load right now. I called the proctor for the test, he said I could come in anytime before 5pm, so I could make it to the 1:30pm meeting at a client site that had been scheduled at 11am that morning. I went from the client site, still, having not prepared, with no clue what I was about to get into.

I got there at 3pm, and had 2 hours to take the test. 59 minutes later I was done. I thought, oh well, good practice at least, and I'd get to use the free retake of the test that MS had been offering when I signed up.

I pressed done, and boom, "Congratulations you've passed!" Needless to say, I was a bit suprised, but stoked none the less.

So, 1 test down, 2-4 more to go. Now, I think I'll definitely study for the test of them!

8 Comments

  • Wow, talk about lucky! Grats on your test, guess perhaps you know more than you thought?

  • Guess, it goes to show that those test don't really mean anything. You didn't study and passed, probably because you know the material very well. Someone else goes to a braindump and passes because they memorized the answers.



    Honestly, why would you pay for that?



    Any honest employer would give you their own test to weed out the cheats any way.

  • You can say the same thing about college degrees, or anything really. There will always be people trying to cheat and there will be those who succeed.



    Say what you like about MCAD or MCSD's, but I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that a person with an MCSD has an advantage walking into an interview over someone without a cert.

  • Man. You're good. ;)

  • I agree with Dave, I took that exam and it was such a joke, it was so easy and promoted poor practices (it was an ASP.Net exam asking about database access layer stuff, wtf??) that I simply cancelled the others ones I had schedule. A job's a job and any advantage you can get is worth it, but I'll bet that an employer that does a google search on you to see what your thoughts are on software development will be a better person to work for than someone who takes something into account without really understanding it.

  • Omg, ironically, I remember I have an exam too today after reading your post. By the time, its around 11pm...faint!!!

  • even i require such amiracle. did u have a good working experience? if so then it made the difference.

  • I took it and failed the first time, then i was going to take it again and canceled it (things at work), but now im going to take and they are saying that i took it already :@ 2 times!

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