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title: "Passed MCP 70-316"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Today was a good day. Got up at 7am(on a Friday - that's a Saturday for you US folks) and drove Tal to her university course, and I myself headed over to “John Brice” IT schools HQ and took my first MCP exam related to…"
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# Passed MCP 70-316

By Roy Osherove September 19, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 19, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Today was a good day.

Got up at 7am(on a Friday - that's a Saturday for you US folks) and drove Tal to her university course, and I myself headed over to “John Brice” IT schools HQ and took my first MCP exam related to .Net - 70-316 (Windows apps with C#). **Passed the exam with a 915 score**. Yey! It ended up easier than I thought. If you have enough experience, the answers to most questions are simply logical conclusions, denying the applicability of the other answers possible answers..

The test itself was more relevant for today's developer than the VB6 tests I took back at 1999. The questions seemed to be more measuring real world experience(sure there are those pesky syntax questions but not all of them), which I like.

So, Next up is web applications I think. Though this will be harder, since I have far less experience with that area. Still, a good day :)

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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.

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