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regarding the new Visual Studio 2010 MCPD. Is there going to be a Enterprise Application Developer track like the MCPD 3.5? Currently, I'm studying for the Web Developer track (My employer require it and they provided e-books) but I can't find any free practice exam. Does anyone know where I can find practice exam or questions online? (prefer free if possible)

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I'm a consultant and the company I work for uses Trancenders for all our practice tests and training. They aren't free (usually run around $100 per exam) but they do have a good money-back guarantee that if you score 100% on their practice exam and you don't pass the real exam you get your money back.

So far I've used both the 70-515 - TS: Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and 70-513 - TS – Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.

I will be taking the web 70-515 exam hopefully next week.

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" if you score 100% on their practice exam and you don't pass the real exam " - so basically there's no money back policy? – BlackJack Jul 13 '11 at 20:30
@BlackJack that's a fair policy considering some training services don't have any money back policy. The real exams can be quite difficult and have a high failure rate. If you buy their training and use it once without even getting a passing score on the test exam and then fail the real exam do you think it's fair to expect them to refund your money? – AlanBarber Jul 14 '11 at 12:58
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But how many people score 100% on a practice exam that's supposed to replicate an exam that is "quite difficult." I'd understand if the policy was "If you pass our practice exam with 80%" or something like that, but 100%? That's a perfect exam, and I highly doubt many people can score that. – BlackJack Jul 14 '11 at 13:59
It is my experience that the WCF exams are the hardest ones. To learn the fiddly configurations needed for some of the exam questions, you'll need to set up a test environment with MSMQ and HTTPS at a minimum. – Tangurena Aug 12 '11 at 22:25
I'm going to try your suggesction and go with Transcender because I have used Measureup.com provided by my company. I've scored passing grade on the cert. mode 3 times but I still failed the actual test. Measureup keep showing the same questions so I think that's the part of problem. My company only pay for two vouchers so this last one is on me. Thanks for the info. – Jack Jan 28 '12 at 8:03
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I've used testking in the past and they seem to have accurate practice questions. I passed on my first try. I think it is a crap-shoot as to if they support the test you are interested in.

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Microsoft has stated that there will not be a further "Enterprise" MCPD certification. In 2009 they said:

MCPD Enterprise in my opinion is still a non-defined audience. I don’t feel we are positioning this exam correctly and we need more market research into what an “Enterprise Professional Developer” really is.

Source.

There has been a large turn over in staff in the training/certification area, so almost no one who posted things before mid 2010 is still at MS. This is why stuff on the certification pages is out of date and exam retirement announcements sometimes come with only 2 weeks notice before an exam is retired (it used to be 12 month notice, but some last minute surprises were sprung on us in June with only 12 days notice).

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