.NET is already impacting salaries in the MCSD marketplace. This is the one core exam that is required and is designed to establish the candidate's skills in first evaluating a business's requirements and then planning the appropriate solution. -- Complete coverage of all exam objectives provides the reader with focused study material. -- CD-ROM includes self-assessment opportunities that will familiarize the reader with not only the question types and difficulty levels, but the experience of electronic testing. -- Written by experts with real-world experience in addition to being experienced authors. -- Exam Watch, Step-by-Step, and On the Job notes combine to provide readers with exam and real-world information.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Great intro to VB.Net but poor certification prep:
If you are new to Visual Basic.Net then this book is great for getting a basic understanding of the language. If you are using it to introduce yourself to the language then I would highly recommend it. However, this book miserably fails its' title in preparing for the 70-306 exam.
The best thing the book does is to provide you an outline of what to study for the exam but you will need to do further research on the topics with MSDN. Plus, as other reviewers have stated, there are a few errors throughout... more info
Frustrating:
This book is chalk full of errors. I am not at all convinced that anyone went back through and actually tried to reproduce the examples and assignments found in this book. If you like a challenge and enjoy debugging someone else's code, this is the book for you. If, however, you feel that your time is better spent actually studying for the exam I would skip this book.
OK:
This book is alright, but it does not take into consideration all OS's on which the code might be running (xp users beware on the globalization chapter) and some of the end of chapter questions don't even seem to be based on data discussed in the chapter. That all being said, there aren't many other options exam prep books for 70-306 and this one is at least easy to follow along with although I don't think it is in depth enough for the exam.
Excellent Cert Book!:
This is an excellent book to be used for your certification. It comes loaded with examples, exercises, exams, and plenty of explanations on the answers to the Self-tests on why they are correct AND why they were incorrect!
One bad thing: You will need to watch the syntax on some of the exam watches and self-test question and answers. I highly recommend downloading the errata for this book before you start from [a website]. I have found a handful of important editing errors but they were pretty obvious.... more info
