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

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

Jedi Ninja

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March 6, 2011 at 9:14 am

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Hi SSC's
I passed 70-433 on Friday (score 800, dropped a couple of stupid ones I should have known 😉 )
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

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Mike McQuillan SSCertifiable Points: 6000 More actions · Answer 1

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.

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March 7, 2011 at 8:25 am

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@mike-2 --

Really a Nice article.

Jedi Ninja SSC Enthusiast Points: 137 More actions · Answer 3

Mike,

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

terrykzncs Ten Centuries Points: 1324 More actions · Answer 4

Hi

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

jarid.lawson SSCrazy Points: 2953 More actions · Answer 5

Mike,

That was an amazingly complete article. Thank you!

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

Thanks for writing up this info on the cert process.

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Mike McQuillan SSCertifiable Points: 6000 More actions · Answer 7

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.