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Summary: Book doesn't help you pass the exam
Review: This book presents a very luxurious and impractical software development methodology. No software project, no matter how large, could possibly follow their advice with any degree of fidelity. The book is very fluffy, repetitive, and inefficient, and it says almost nothing about .NET. It is basically a feel-good grab bag of techniques. Don't spend [money]on this book.The book had very little connection to the actual exam. The exam was a set of scenarios with questions afterward. The questions weren't that difficult, but many of the scenarios were too fuzzy, or the questions had fuzzy answers, with a "choose all that apply" format. This was not an objective test. Passing is largely a matter of luck. The predecessor to this exam (70-100) was much more objective. And of course, Microsoft doesn't tell you your score at the end, only whether you pass, so you don't know how much more studying you have to do for next time. ...
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Summary: Excellent study book only not for this exam
Review: This book's content is about 95% Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), though the exam, which I wrote and passed, is about 5% MSF. This book is excellent if you want to write the MSF Practioner exam (74-100) because it covers the material for that exam really well albeit with material that is taken almost verbatim from the free downloadable MSF resource whitepapers at http://www.microsoft.com/msf. I would not recommend buying this book for 70-300 and would suggest that you can probably get by on 74-100 with material you can get for free, if you are interested in writing that. I didn't read any other books but I found the practice exam available from http://selftest.kaplanit.com to be extremely useful.
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Summary: Excellent study book only not for this exam
Review: This book's content is about 95% Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), though the exam, which I wrote and passed, is about 5% MSF. This book is excellent if you want to write the MSF Practioner exam (74-100) because it covers the material for that exam really well albeit with material that is taken almost verbatim from the free downloadable MSF resource whitepapers at http://www.microsoft.com/msf. I would not recommend buying this book for 70-300 and would suggest that you can probably get by on 74-100 with material you can get for free, if you are interested in writing that. I didn't read any other books but I found the practice exam available from http://selftest.kaplanit.com to be extremely useful.
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Summary: Well at least the book now saves you 15% on the exam
Review: Unfortunately, this is the weakest book in the MCSD series. I was not able to even finish this book. Fortunately ExamCram2 has an awesome book which is much better, shorter, and less expensive.
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Summary: Well at least the book now saves you 15% on the exam
Review: Unfortunately, this is the weakest book in the MCSD series. I was not able to even finish this book. Fortunately ExamCram2 has an awesome book which is much better, shorter, and less expensive.
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