Code Camp Auckland 2009 – Feedback from attendees

Over on Kirk Jackson’s Page of Words, he gives an overview of the feedback from attendees.  All very positive.

He also released individual speaker’s performances privately to each one of us speakers.  Here’re mine:

Becoming Certified. James Hippolite:

• Dissatisfied: 1 (3%)
• Satisfied: 11 (28%)
• Satisfied++: 19 (49%)
• Very satisfied: 8 (21%)

It was difficult to follow the structure in the Becoming Certified talk and the Secure Coding Practices talk.

I guess that’s because I had 1/2 an hour to cram 1 hour’s worth of presentation.

Kirk indicated that responses were on average about 50% of attendance, which implies I had 80 people in my talk.  Not bad, woo hoo!

Exam 70-300

Exam Number	070-300
Title	Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures for Microsoft .NET
Date	Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Candidate ID	DT1645310
Passing Score	700
Your Score	875
Result	Pass
Sectional Results (Approximate)	Envisioning the Solution, 100% Gathering and Analyzing Business Requirements, 100% Developing Specifications, 100% Creating the Conceptual Design, 80% Creating the Logical Design, 80% Creating the Physical Design, 60% Creating Standards and Processes, 100%

Exam 70-442

Exam Number	070-442
Title	Designing and Optimizing Data Access by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Date	Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Candidate ID	DT1645310
Passing Score	700
Your Score	740
Result	Pass

Sectional Results (Approximate)

1. Designing Efficient Access to a SQL Server Service, 70%
2. Designing a Database Query Strategy, 55%
3. Designing Error-Handling Routines, 100%
4. Designing a Transaction Strategy, 90%
5. Performance Tuning a Database and a Database Application, 88%

Exam 70-441

Exam Number	070-441
Title	Designing Database Solutions by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Date	Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Candidate ID	DT1645310
Passing Score	700
Your Score	850
Result	Pass

Sectional Results

1. Designing Database Testing and Code Management Procedures, 86%
2. Designing an Application Solution for SQL Server 2005, 87%
3. Designing Database Objects, 85%
4. Designing a Database, 84%
5. Developing Applications That Use SQL Server Support Services, 84%

Exam 70-431

Had a great exam yesterday.  Took me the full 2.5 hours.  I've never done Simulation questions before.  They were... interesting.  I found them quite easy.  The simulator only allowed certain actions to be performed in the SSMS IDE, so finding the right sequence was relatively simple.
35 ordinary questions and 12 simulations.
My study technique this time worked really well.  Each number below stands for the date in February:

1. Picked up the self-paced study kit on February 1st.  Completed Chapter 1: Installing SQL Server 2005
2. Chapter 2: Configuring SQL Server 2005
3. Chapter 3: Creating Tables, Constraints, and User-Defined Types
4. Chapter 4: Creating Indexes
5. Chapter 5: Working with Transact-SQL (very light)
6. Chapter 6: Creating Partitions
7. Chapter 7: Implementing Views
8. Chapter 8: Managing XML Data (very important)
9. Chapter 9: Creating Functions, Stored Procedures and Triggers
10. Chapter 10: Working with Flat Files
11. Chapter 11: Backing Up, Restoring and Moving a Database
12. Chapter 12: Using Transact-SQL to Manage Databases
13. Chapter 13: Working with HTTP Endpoints
14. Chapter 14: Working with SQL Server Agent Jobs
15. Chapter 15: Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server Performance
16. Chapter 16: Managing Database Snapshots
17. Chapter 17: Implementing Database Mirroring
18. Chapter 18: Implementing Log Shipping
19. Chapter 19: Managing Replication
20. Chapter 20: Working with Service Broker
21. Chapter 21: Creating Full-Text Catalogs
22. Concentrated (using practice exam questions) on Exam Objective 1: Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2005
23. Objective 2: Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery
24. Objective 3: Supporting Data Consumers
25. Objective 4: Maintaining Databases
26. Objective 5: Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server Performance
27. Objective 6: Creating and Implementing Database Objects
28. On February 28th sat the exam

Name: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Implementation and Maintenance
Required score: 700
My Score: 876