MCP Exam for VFP Desktop Applications

[samoody]

I am scheduled to take this exam at the end of this month.

I have been developing in FoxPro and Visual FoxPro in a business environment for 5+ years. I have gone through the VFP Certification book published by Henztenwerke. But, I am still worried that I may not be fully prepared. I read the post 'Cert book to look forward to...' in which 'danceman' indicated that the VFP cert book was not as much help in perparing for the fox exam.

If anyone could give me some advice on other sources of information or other preparations that I could take
for this exam, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[jonscott8]

Start with the suggestions in thread718-29724

You can also refer to

http://fox.wikis.com

where a study group documented it's process. The authors of the book you refer to actually participated in that study, so you'll see similar concepts presented.

IIRC, this question has been posed many times in the VFP forum, review those suggestions. Forum184

The unfortunate bottom line is that 1) there weren't very many people taking the VFP exams and 2) VFP has not been carried forward with the MCSD since the release of .NET, so there haven't been many materials developed to help assist test takers.

With 5+ years experience, provided you've made an effort to follow recommended programming practices and have interfaced with other technologies (SQL Server, COM, ActiveX, Object modeling, etc..), you should have no problem with the exam.

Also, I've reviewed the VFP Cert. guide, and I think the important thing to remember about it is that it's a guide, not a learn-it-all book. It doesn't go into extensive detail on each and every topic, but it does cover most all the concepts presented on the exam. IE, the guide itself will NOT allow a non-VFP developer to pass the exams, you need some VFP experience.

Jon Hawkins