If there were more books available, my rating would probably be a little different. However, I would say that this book was pretty good. I went through the entire book and obtained a pretty good overview of the material that would be on the exam. I believe that it was quite helpful to me and would be to others. I would recommend that you purchase Transcender practice exams (...) along with this purchase as they provide...
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This book is an excellent study guide for the MCSD exam. I passed the exam easily with this as my only resource. But...(there's always a but), this guide doesn't go into depth on the inner workings of InterDev or teach you how to use it. If you want to lean Visual Interdev 6.0, get a different book. PROS: If you need to study for the MCSD exam, get this book. The MTS section is excellent! The ADO and RDS sections are also...
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I passed the exam, so I can't complain. There was plenty of ADO in the book, and that really helped on the exam. The MTS coverage also helps. The book was a little light on IIS objects (Session, Application, Response, etc), but with a working knowledge of IIS, you can pass the exam after studying this training kit.
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Overall this book gives you the baseline for the requirements of exam 70-152. I found this book somehow inconsistent in its level of technical difficulties presented. It doesn't worth its price tag until the book goes on to MTS. Poor ASP, DHTML programming. But presentation on MTS technology is thoroughly clear, in-deep and precise. Well, at least, better than my exam preparing VB distributional books. However,...
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70-152 is a test that at a high level comprises of 2 main categories of questions. These are the development & implementation oriented [ ASP, ADO, MTS, HTML, DHTML, FP Server extensions, Web Security etc.. ] questions, and the web application/project analysis and design oriented questions. The splitup of questions [ based on the test that I took ] is roughly around 70%-30%, 70 being the programming/development questions...
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