{"id":36674,"date":"2017-05-15T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/?p=36674"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:28:06","slug":"on-passing-the-xamarin-mobile-developer-certification-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/on-passing-the-xamarin-mobile-developer-certification-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"On passing the Xamarin Mobile Developer Certification Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is from Premier Developer consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joe-healy-78848\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Healy<\/a> who recently became a <a href=\"https:\/\/university.xamarin.com\/certification\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer<\/a>.&nbsp; Congrats Joe!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microsoft likes us to have some technical certifications.&nbsp; Personally I enjoy the challenges of the tests.&nbsp; This year my goals were the Windows 10 UWP Developer exam ( Developing Mobile Apps 70-357 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-357.aspx\">https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-357.aspx<\/a> )and the Xamarin Certified Developer accreditation ( <a href=\"https:\/\/university.xamarin.com\/certification\">https:\/\/university.xamarin.com\/certification<\/a> ).&nbsp; Earlier in the year I passed the UWP exam, so up next was the Xamarin Cert. <\/p>\n<p>Cutting it short, I passed the Xamarin exam Saturday.&nbsp; Good to go.&nbsp; Check it at the Xamarin site <a href=\"https:\/\/university.xamarin.com\/certification\">https:\/\/university.xamarin.com\/certification<\/a>.&nbsp; You can search for me by name \u2013 Joe Healy. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/university.xamarin.com\/certification\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/05\/xam-cert1-300x124.png\" alt=\"Xamarin Certification\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36675\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of Joe\u2019s advice for Xamarin certification seekers at his blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devfish\/2017\/04\/17\/on-passing-the-xamarin-mobile-developer-certification-exam\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is from Premier Developer consultant Joe Healy who recently became a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer.&nbsp; Congrats Joe! Microsoft likes us to have some technical certifications.&nbsp; Personally I enjoy the challenges of the tests.&nbsp; This year my goals were the Windows 10 UWP Developer exam ( Developing Mobile Apps 70-357 \u2013 https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-357.aspx )and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":37840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5729],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xamarin"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This post is from Premier Developer consultant Joe Healy who recently became a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer.&nbsp; Congrats Joe! Microsoft likes us to have some technical certifications.&nbsp; Personally I enjoy the challenges of the tests.&nbsp; This year my goals were the Windows 10 UWP Developer exam ( Developing Mobile Apps 70-357 \u2013 https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-70-357.aspx )and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}