I took the beta of the second exam to upgrade my MCSD.NET to the version 2.0 certification today. Just like the test on Monday the things that seemed to mess me up were the syntax questions. Today it was the XML format for doing remoting and WSE 3.0 stuff. To be honest I just open the help and copy the XML snippet or use the WSE 3.0 configuration tool from Visual Studio and change values so I wasn't 100% sure what all the XML tag names were. I felt I was better prepared for the test today but I am not 100% confident that I passed.

I understand that Microsoft wants to see if I really know what I am doing but I felt that asking about the XML I would have to manually type when there is a tool to do it for me automatically seemed a little picky.