70-451 - how much more advanced than 70-433?

  • Hi SSC's

    I passed 70-433 on Friday (score 800, dropped a couple of stupid ones I should have known πŸ˜‰ )

    I read the MS Training book and "The Real MCTS 70-433 Database Design and Development" book.

    I found both to be very easily readable but somewhat inadequate for the exam - at least the practice questions included in the MS book. For this reason, I ended up doing a lot of research on BOL - I'm wondering if I've over-prepared for 70-433 and may be well on my way (but not completely) to the level required for 70-451.

    Does anyone have experience of 70-451 and the increased knowledge it builds on from 70-433?

    I can see that you need to know the subjects more in-depth, but have read posts that imply "its just a couple more weeks of revision" - is this accurate? For example, the questions on CLR in 70-433 are very basic, but I've also read that for 70-451 you need to know them pretty much inside out - e.g. how to write and debug CLR aggregates, etc.

    TIA - grateful for any advice / experience offered

  • Hi there

    I undertook 70-433 and 70-451 in July 2009. With a little more study you will find yourself ready for 70-451 quite quickly, it is essentially more of the same.

    However, you have a shorter time span and there are some extra subjects, such as the Entity Framework.

    I wrote an article on the exams after completing them, you can find it here and it should give you the info you need:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2008/67599/[/url]

    Good luck!

    Regards,

    Mike.

  • @mike-2 --

    Really a Nice article.

  • Mike,

    Many thanks -exactly what I was looking for....

  • Hi

    Thanks for the article. A really good read and will help me focus on what I need to cover for the exams.

  • Mike,

    That was an amazingly complete article. Thank you!

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  • Thanks for writing up this info on the cert process.

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  • Thanks for the kind words guys.

    I passed 70-432 a couple of weeks back and am taking 70-450 in July, so hopefully there will be an administration certification exam article to compliment the development one coming up!

    Mike.

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