I like the new look of this site. To update on the problem I had posted, it works fine now. I had somehow missed turning off the debug mode in production, had to make it “false” in index.php. Thanks a lot for pointing it out.

~Jayz

This works well for me in dev, but has no effect in production environment when I upload files to my shared host. Any pointers?

Jayz

Errata for 70-547: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941491

I read the book, did the labs (but not the extra practice suggestions), and used the practice tests that came with the training kit to prepare. I was glad that the practice tests gave me an idea of which of the 7 subject areas I needed to improve.

This was my first Microsoft exam so I didn’t know quite what to expect. A few small surprises:

• the real questions were not any better quality than the practice questions. There were several that were unclear. There was one where none of the code samples in the answer strictly matched the description in the question, and another where I was pretty sure all the answers were broken (but I may have just been ignorant).

• I did well on the real exam in areas where I knew I was weak, and did less well on areas on which I was strong in the practice tests. Huh.

• The questions requiring more than one answer on the real exam had the number of answers (“pick two answers”) clearly spelled out. That made them (seem) easier than the ones on the practice test where I would sometimes click two obvious ones and forget a third or something.

• There were some differences in emphasis. My real exam, if I remember correctly, didn’t have any questions about regular expressions, though the practice tests covered them heavily. Too bad that was one of my strong suits.

But anyway, I passed. On to the 70-528 course.

Another essential: There are 4 pages of errata, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935218/