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title: "Attack of the certified"
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published: "2003-02-25T06:04:00"
updated: "2003-02-25T06:04:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "\"Oh, this exam makes me an MCAD. So right now I'm an MCT, MCSD for VB6, MCAD for Microsoft .NET. By wednesday I hope to have MCSD for Microsoft .NET, and by friday perhaps I'll be ready for the Win2k Server exam so I…"
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# Attack of the certified

By Roy Osherove February 25, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published February 25, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

_"Oh, this exam makes me an MCAD.  So right now I'm an MCT, MCSD for VB6, MCAD for Microsoft .NET.  By wednesday I hope to have MCSD for Microsoft .NET, and by friday perhaps I'll be ready for the Win2k Server exam so I can get my MCDBA.  "_

_\[via [Phil Scott](http://dotnetweblogs.com/pscott/posts/2894.aspx)\]_

I feel so small and uncertified ... :(

perhaps some day i could be a TitleBitch too.. ;)

 ( no offense intended - just a thought about a new slang word for Title throwing...)

don't you mean _"Oh, this exam makes me an MCSD", btw?_

P.S - that XML web services exam sounds like a bitch. I am currently studying for the Winforms exam, but it looks to be much easier..


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
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