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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0
Don't believe all you read This is the first review I've ever written but felt it was important to after reading the previous reviews on this book, since they nearly stopped me from buying it... I have just passed 70-548 and despite the bad reviews I stuck with my tried and tested method of preparing for previous microsoft exams, by just reading the recommended text - I can't stick reading MSDN!!! I've got to say that compared with the previous prep guides I've read for the 70-536 and 70-526 exams IMHO this was much better... more info
Interesting, but not helpful for the exam I actually found the book generally pretty good, but some chapters were definitely better than others. A few, I felt, were very good, such as requirements gathering and use cases, modelling the application, and so on - but many of the later chapters were less useful. There seemed to be an inverse relationship between how many code examples there were, and how good a chapter was. I think that the chapters with little code assumed that if you were through to doing the MCPD exam, you can probably work the code... more info
test worthy (70-548) or not test worthy? Luckily I did pass the test but I would in no way attribute it to the book. I'm still not sure if some of the authors actually knew enough (in one case anything?) about the topic they were writing on (don't extend this to all authors (only a few)!).
The test questions were helpful showing again, that MSPress books and MS tests do not fit together (having passed other tests this should be (-come) common knowledge...)
I hope MS will try out new authors or let people like Jeffry Richter write more... more info
A book as badly envisioned as the exam syllabus I've read this book twice now and by the end of it I'm feeling the same schitzophrenic dizziness the 9 authors (yes 9) must have felt whilst writing this god awful mess. Chapters contradict chapters, authors contradict authors, the end of lesson Q&A sections contradict the chapter's lesson (nothing new here MSPress), the methodologies chosen don't work well together and authors even contradict themselves within the space of several paragraphs (again another MSPress speciality).
