On Thursday I took the Microsoft Technical Specialist certification exam for Windows Presentation Foundation. It was a very tough test. I think it was tougher than the .NET 2.0 Foundation exam which I took last year. I was interested in taking the exam to see if I knew as much as I thought that I did, and I thought that it would be a good marketing thing for the Phoenix Neudesic office to be able to claim at least one WPF-capable consultant in the office. I got an 88% on the test which is a lot better than I thought that I did.

When I take tests like this, where all of the questions are multiple choice, I usually write down the questions that I want to review because I wasn’t sure of the answer, or that I knew that I used the wrong answer for. Then at the end of the test, I’ll circle back around and correct the answers or review the questions in more detail. With 51 questions, I knew that I could miss 14 and still pass, but after my initial pass through the test, I had at least 21 questions marked down to review. I was sweating bullets. Fortunately, upon further review, most of the questions had the correct answers, so there wasn’t much to worry about. I’m guessing that I missed 6 questions from my score. I did get all of the ClickOnce questions correctly which surprised me.

Next up, studying for the Workflow Foundation certification test.