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Information on MCSD

  • 22-08-2005 9:57am
    #1
    TowerMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭


    Hi,

    I am looking for information on doing the MCSD course, have anyone done it and if so was the learning curve high and would you need to have a number of years developing experience to have any chance of passing it? Also is it expensive to do the course without company sponsorship?


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  • #2
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    TowerMan wrote:
    Hi,

    I am looking for information on doing the MCSD course, have anyone done it and if so was the learning curve high and would you need to have a number of years developing experience to have any chance of passing it? Also is it expensive to do the course without company sponsorship?

    Hi,

    Here is the MCSD home page if you don't already have it.

    The first step is to become a MCAD (Application Developer). This is three exams, and I think you specialise in either Windows or Web development, and then in either VB or C#. Once you have done these three exams (I think these are elective subjects), you can then do another two to become the MCSD.

    It is possible to learn on your own, but the books alone will probably set you back a couple of hundred euros, and the exams probably cost well over E100 each.

    If you are able to get work to pay for a course in .net development, this will probably cost 2-4K for a 3-5 day course. You will also need the .net development software to practise with. I have no idea of what this costs, but a quick search on the web should find this for you.

    What is your experience to date? If you have a good grounding in VB6, then you will probably find the .net easy to pick up. If you have more of a scripting background (ASP), then you will have to adapt to a more control-orientated web-development environment.

    hope this helps,

    Eoin


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