My MCTS (70-515) Preparation, Score Sheet and Certificate

The exam would cost you USD 50. I paid INR 2350 for this exam. I booked it on 15th, Dec and took exam on 18th Dec. For more details about my experience with exam, please read my blog on that.

Regarding preparation, I knew it would be difficult considering the content of the exam and lack of information about the exam. So I took my own time and used the following material. Here are my suggestions. 

• First of all, get full objectives of exam
• Thanks to Niall Merrigan who has posted a detailed listing of objectives along with available resources. Its a great resource. He divided the objectives into five parts. All of them are there.
• You get to see some sample questions here. I couldn't see all questions. Check out questions related to exam 70-562 also.
• Of course MSDN is the best resource. Many links refer to MSDN. I also needed to search Google for many topics and landed eventually in MSDN. Of course there are some blogs by a few individuals. But as you search, you come across all of them.
• I read a book related to 70-562 (ASP.NET 3.5 exam). But some topics like Mobile apps etc. are no longer relevant. So you better read Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-515): Web Applications Development with Microsoft.NET Framework 4. This book was not available to me. It must be available by now.
• Above all don't hesitate to write code and test each thing on your own. Nothing compares to writing code. After all the aim of getting certified is  "getting to know the technology".

Score Sheet

Certificate