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Tag - soa certification
Wednesday 1 September 2010
Follow my SOA certification studies on Twitter
By Steven Hillaert on Wednesday 1 September 2010, 21:40 - SOA
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Passed Exam S90.03: SOA Design & Architecture
By Steven Hillaert on Tuesday 31 August 2010, 12:47 - SOA
Finally I had the time to take the S90.03 exam (SOA Design & Architecture ), I know you've all been waiting for some info on this.
For the moment I don't have the time to go into detail about it but I'll give you the general idea of the exam:
It goes more into detail about the principles of service design, the relation between the different principles, how they are related to the SOA goals and the place of SOA in the enterprise. Specially service composition seems very important in the exam.
For my eager followers, you won't have to wait very long for some info on exam S90.04, I scheduled the exam for September 27.
Monday 29 March 2010
Passed Exam S90.02: SOA Technology Concepts
By Steven Hillaert on Monday 29 March 2010, 13:20 - SOA
Today I successfully passed exam S90.02 and with that I earned my Certified SOA Professional rank :)
The exam format is the same as S90.01, 50 questions (true/false, single choice or multiple choice questions), 1 hour to finish and the pass rate is 78. 45 minutes should be enough to answer all questions and review them a second time.
What do you need to know to pass? Basically what the title of the exam says,
the concepts of the technologies behind SOA:
- WSDL, SOAP
- contracts
- XML, XML Schema
- Service roles
- REST
- ESB
- WS-* specifications
So you have to understand what they are used for and how they relate but not how to implement them.
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Scheduled exam S90.02
By Steven Hillaert on Tuesday 2 March 2010, 09:53 - SOA
I've scheduled the second exam, SOA Technology Concepts, in my pursuit of becoming a Certified SOA Consultant for March 29. This exams covers the basic technologies to implement a SOA solutions, specially through the use of web services.
To prepare for this exam I've been reading chapters 5-6-7-13-16-17-18 of the book SOA: Concepts, Technology, and Design, I went through the course booklet and I've been listening to the cd's with the module overview, exam preparation and podcasts on different web services related subjects.
Monday 4 January 2010
Scheduled exam S90.01
By Steven Hillaert on Monday 4 January 2010, 16:31 - SOA
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.
