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Summary: Passed the 70-305 test - First Try!
Review: Great book! Concise, logical flow and division of material, good exercises, good and lots of real-world test questions: Preliminary book and chapter test questions, end of chapter questions, a total of 4 separate sets of questions available in the testing software on the CD. (More questions overall than Transcender provides and I like Transcender). Having taken the test, I am really happy with the number and variety of the real-world test questions as that is what is primarily on the test. And of course this provides the background info for me to make better decisions within my apps.
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Summary: Passed the 70-305 test - First Try!
Review: Great book! Concise, logical flow and division of material, good exercises, good and lots of real-world test questions: Preliminary book and chapter test questions, end of chapter questions, a total of 4 separate sets of questions available in the testing software on the CD. (More questions overall than Transcender provides and I like Transcender). Having taken the test, I am really happy with the number and variety of the real-world test questions as that is what is primarily on the test. And of course this provides the background info for me to make better decisions within my apps.
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Summary: All you need for both exams!
Review: I found this book to be an excellent resource in preparation for 70-305. Before reading this book I had done some reading on .net, and some light coding. I would say I knew enough to be dangerous, but not enough to accomplish anything productive.That being said, this book covered exactly what I needed to get jump started in the language, and pass the test on my first try the next week. I was very happy with the speed that this book covered the concepts needed for the test. Although the book covers a very broad range of topics, I felt like the concepts were presented in a way that let me put it all together. Starting with language basic concepts, and data, the book then branches into windows forms, and then web forms. Security, optimization, and deployment are also covered in a good amount of detail. I would highly suggest this for the beginning to intermediate vb.net developer looking to prepare for either of these tests.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I found this book to be an excellent resource in preparation for 70-305. Before reading this book I had done some reading on .net, and some light coding. I would say I knew enough to be dangerous, but not enough to accomplish anything productive. That being said, this book covered exactly what I needed to get jump started in the language, and pass the test on my first try the next week. I was very happy with the speed that this book covered the concepts needed for the test. Although the book covers a very broad range of topics, I felt like the concepts were presented in a way that let me put it all together. Starting with language basic concepts, and data, the book then branches into windows forms, and then web forms. Security, optimization, and deployment are also covered in a good amount of detail. I would highly suggest this for the beginning to intermediate vb.net developer looking to prepare for either of these tests.
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Summary: All you need for both exams!
Review: I just passed 70-305 and the only resource that I used was this book and VS.NET! I've written some basic programs using VB 6 and this book was great. The practice questions were immensely helpful and certainly indicative of the actual exams from Microsoft. If you are pursuing .NET certification, this book is a must have!
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Summary: It worked!! Can't complain!! Passed First Try!!!
Review: I rarely give a book perfect score and this book will not break that rule. I took the 70-306 exam and passed on the first try, but I would be lying if I told you this book was the sole reason. I did Transcender and thoroughly devoured this book (chapter #1-12).This book covered perhaps 70-75% of the test I took.
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Summary: only book needed for vb.net!
Review: I'm going for my mcdba and I found this book to help me pass the 306 exam. All i can say is - WOW! I do have quite a few other .net books but this one leaves NOTHING out! The authors present the material in plain english and the questions at the beginning and end of each chapter really show what I need to focus on. There's plenty of pictures so I'm not left wondering what I should be clicking on and the web sites they reference are actually very useful! The authors even put in tips to avoid a sql injection attack and they have the best explanation of the web.config file I've ever seen! Get this book!!!!
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Summary: Helped me to pass 70-306 & 70-305
Review: This book manages to cover the main subject matter for both exams.... having passed both 70-306 and 70-305 in October 2004, I can personally vouch for the teaching style this book offers. Although I agree that the content is somewhat light for 70-305, I believe it is because there is significant overlap on certain topics for both exams (especially with ADO.NET concepts). If you are a strong .NET developer, you may get away with simply using this book as a means to prepare for the exams. For most of us, however, building a foundation in VB .NET/ASP .NET with 1-2 other books (particulary those offered by O'Reilly, WROX(Wiley) or APRESS) is the best way to go prior to picking up this book. Moving forward to 70-310, I can only hope the "Sybex" approach continues to prove effective.
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Summary: OK book for 70-305
Review: Used this book along with other materials to pass 70-305. This is an OK book, but it is not written at the beginner level. The reader needs to be fairly advanced to pick up the information the way it is presented. Read another book first to get the concepts and high-level picture of ASP.NET and then start reading this book to focus on the test.
The sections in this book on the web.config file and debugging/tracing are well done as these topics are hit heavily in the test. The end of chapters review questions could be better, but they are decent.
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Summary: Best book for 70-305
Review: Want to pass 70-305 first time around ? Use this book and the braindumps (www.braindumps.com) and you're there !
Mind you I did find some errors in the book, but after contacting Brian Reisman I received help within days !
I send my additional errata to Brian, to check and update the Sybex online Errata and later the next edition of the book.
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