XML Master Success Story : Lloyd Hand
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| What was the purpose of your taking the exam? |
| As a Business Analyst IT, it is important to be conversant in the widest possible range of technology solutions. XML and related technologies are fast becoming mainstream and I wanted to understand its applications. |
| Did you have any experience with XML prior to taking the exam? |
| None |
| How much time did you put into studying for the exam? |
| 2 Months. |
| Let us know about any books, seminars or other preparation tools you used to study for the exam. |
| To study for this exam I used: 1. The study material supplied by your site. 2. O'Reilly XML & XSLT Pocket reference guides. and 3. W3C publications: XPath, XSLT and Namespaces. |
| Please share any post-exam thoughts or advice for those who will be taking the exam. |
| I am not a programmer, and for me the biggest problems in the exam were: 1. Time. Without significant previous exposure to coding, I found it necessary to read each line presented in the questions and exhibits very carefully. There isn't much time for each question. The solution to this problem is exposure - review and write as much code as possible before taking the exam, as familiarity will save lots of time. 2. Working style. My habit is to print code and work with it on paper. This style is completely incompatible with the style required by the exam where it's important to be comfortable working on the screen in front of you and in your head. 3. Make use of the 'mark for later review' option. My approach was to go sequentially through all questions. This was a mistake for me since lengthy, code samples take a long time to review, where shorter questions tend to be answerable quicker. |
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