Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

Shortly after my last post (on January 24th, yikes) I left with the 3 other NG’s for Prague. We were going to particpiate in MACH Intro School for EMEA. I wrote about about the connection between NG and MACH in a previous post. The Intro School is the first chance to meet your peers in your closest region. Denmark belogs to Western Europe (WE) which is part of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). This meant that there were a lot of different cultures and languages convening in Prague. The purpose of Intro School is to give you guidance and skills to tackle your work life at Microsoft, and networking. Actually the latter should probably be written as NETWORKING! And so we did I had a blast talking and just goofing around with the other MACH hires. Plus 2 weeks in Prague doesn’t kill you either. They’ve got good beer and good food. Awesome!

After Prague I started prepping for the exam Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Distributed Application Development (70-529), and deals with Web Services, Remoting, WSE 3.0, Enterprise Services, and MSMQ. My strategy was the same as for the other exams, read the book, do practice tests, iterate on my weak points. And sure thing it worked! I passed on the 15th with a score of 965. Pretty cool.
This means that I’m now a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Web Apps, Windows Apps and Distributed Apps. But more importantly I’m on track to become a Microsoft Certificed Proffesional Developer in Enterprise Applications Developer. I need one more exam – the PRO: Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (70-549) - to achieve the title. So that’s definitely my goal to accomplish that within the coming couple of months.

Followers of my Delicious feed will notice that I do a bit of work on Forefront, which is Microsoft’s Anti Malware software suite.

Last week I attended internal training on Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), which is Microsoft’s model for delivering solutions be it software development or infrastructure setup. It was good because it conveyed the language used internally when talking about which phase a project is in, or what milestone has been reached. I’ll definitely benefit from it.

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