{"id":2683,"date":"2013-10-13T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:03:19","slug":"im-certifiable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/im-certifiable\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Certifiable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I went on my second training course in Manchester, of which I&#8217;ll write later. The second was to a course on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qa.com\/browse\/courses\/\">Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications<\/a>. The purpose to then sit the exam and achieve <acronym title=\"Microsoft Certified Professional\">MCP<\/acronym> status.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I passed the exam and became a Microsoft Certified Professional.<\/p>\n<p>This is also me a third of the way to the <acronym title=\"Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer\">MCSD<\/acronym>: Web Applications and a quarter of the way to the <acronym title=\"Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer\">MCSD<\/acronym>: SharePoint Applications specialisms. The first course was on Sharepoint so the possibility is there to sit the other mutual exam and then do 3 more to achieve two more qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>It was really weird as I never had many exams at uni so jumping into one again was a bit of a culture shock. Unfortunately there is an <acronym title=\"Non Disclosure Agreement\">NDA<\/acronym> around the exam or that and the place you sit it would make an interesting post.<\/p>\n<p>The culture shock was such that I actually had to resit. Thankfully another chunk of time spent revising meant I then passed.<\/p>\n<p>There is an overwhelming amount of information out there so the studying I did was around the following areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/credentials\/support\/help\">Book for 20486<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/training\/#fbid=WNpusvkVajY\">Microsoft Virtual Academy training and questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dotnet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/apps\/aspnet\/mvc\">Sample Projects<\/a> &#8211; built the Facebook integration ones which was interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/survey-smiles.com\/\">Someones study guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I went on my second training course in Manchester, of which I&#8217;ll write later. The second was to a course on Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications. The purpose to then sit the exam and achieve MCP status. Last week I passed the exam and became a Microsoft Certified Professional. This is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[721,303,722],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-mcp","tag-microsoft","tag-mvc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}