I just scheduled my first soaschool.com exam for December 30, just in time to keep on track with my planning to do one exam this year :-)

I've read the book SOA: Principles of Service Design completely, read the self-study material and I tried the sample questions. Until D-day I'll probably listen to the the CD's with podcasts and review the most important chapters of the book that concern the first exam.

Once I took the exam I'll let you know what it was like.

UPDATE: Because the exam center unexpectedly had to close last week I was forced to reschedule my exam to January 21.