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Summary: Required Material
Review: I spent weeks methodically going through the MS press book and picked this up for review five days before the exam. What a shock! The MS book hadn't organized and clearly explained 80% of the material as well as Amit Kalani. The end-of-chapter questions and sample tests clearly pointed out my gaps as well as Microsoft's test question style, which raised my scores on practice tests by 25%. I have experience working with webapps/ADO.NET, but never would have passed the exam without this book.
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Summary: Required Material
Review: Like all the other Exam Crams in the C# series, this book is exceptional. If you had to pick one resource only to prepare this would be it. In fact, I think you could pass the exam simply by reading this book, answering the questions at the end of each chapter, and taking the two practice exams at the end of the book.If you are preparing for 315, you would be making a big mistake by not getting this book.
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Summary: Excellent Exam Prep
Review: Like all the other Exam Crams in the C# series, this book is exceptional. If you had to pick one resource only to prepare this would be it. In fact, I think you could pass the exam simply by reading this book, answering the questions at the end of each chapter, and taking the two practice exams at the end of the book. If you are preparing for 315, you would be making a big mistake by not getting this book.
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Summary: Great resource both before and after the exam
Review: The 70-315 is my favorite. I love ASP.Net. Despite its smaller size than the Training Tuide, the Exam Cram still has plenty of meat. First, read it just before you take the exam, to remind yourself of the key concepts. Second, keep it around as a reference when the Training Guide is too heavy and Google is too light. I also like it because I often switch among ASP, VBScript, ASP.Net, C# and PHP on any given day, and the Exam Cram is a good way to re-ground in the .Net world. The 70-315 Exam Cram is worth a buy.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: The book has a four page card designed for reading right before the test, it has lots of good sample questions, and it summarizes everything nicely. All this for twenty-something bucks: amazing. Experienced ASP.NET developers can pick up this book, go over it in a week's time, and then go pass the exam.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: The book has a four page card designed for reading right before the test, it has lots of good sample questions, and it summarizes everything nicely. All this for twenty-something bucks: amazing. Experienced ASP.NET developers can pick up this book, go over it in a week's time, and then go pass the exam.
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Summary: Fabulous way to prepare!
Review: This book cuts to the chase regarding what you need to know to pass exam 070-315. With a single page, Amit Kalani teaches the same key development skills that require about 6 pages of reading in the counterpart Microsoft Press Book. It's nice to have the MS Press books and VS.NET online help as references to answer questions that arise as you study, but you'll save valuable time with this book! I passed all three MCAD exams on the first try. By the time I got to the third exam, I realized that I only needed to study with this book to prepare and I scored a whopping 90%! NOTE: If you are planning to take the MCAD exams, please realize that nothing can replace real-world experience with VS.NET. Before using this book to cram for the exam, get a solid understanding of C# and ADO.NET. I recommend "Inside C#, Second Edition" by Archer & Andrew Whitechapel and "Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference)" by Sceppa.
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Summary: Best value book, great examples
Review: This book is very good in preparing, and explainging most if not all of the concepts that a developer must know to pass the exam. The book is loaded with examples and they work very well in explaining the concepts.
If you want to study for the exam, and know everything to be expected in the exam, use this book from Que. I would highly recommend!
It comes with a companion CD that contains all code examples and an electonic copy of the book in pdf. You can search through the pdf and jump right into that chapter!
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Summary: Outstanding and Concise
Review: This book must be among the best technical books ever. The book is a recap of the big blue Training Guide for the same Exam and by the same publisher and Author--which is also outstanding. However, this book is a later release so the items in the errata have been included in this book. The differences: The training guide has 95% of the material in this book (often with the same paragraphs, diagrams, samples, questions, etc. so don't buy both books like I did) plus additional practical examples, questions, and answers. For someone with less than a few years of experience with web development and less than 1 year with C# and ASP.NET, I suggest buying the training guide instead of this book. But for the more experienced and busy, this book might be just right. The sample code often only have relavent segments of a program which make the book a lot more compact. If you read sample code on other books, sometime you wonder if these people are trying to impress the readers too much with their 100 line program with only 10 lines of relavent information. Even MSDN is like that very often. There's a few typo's I've found in this book, but that's it. No completely off the wall and difficult to spot errors I've found so far--I'm sure an errata section will be available soon for this book. I'm presuming the reason why his books are better is because the author runs his own Microsoft Certified Training Center. I'd pick Kalani's books over Microsoft Press books any day. Books are cheap compared to other preparation material. So even if you already have a training guide for this exam or even if you already past the exams, I think his books will make great addition as a future reference and/or for supplimental exam preparation tool.
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Summary: Great Exam Prep
Review: This book will cover most of what you will need to know for the exam. I was able to pass the exam with this book as my primary study guide and reading some MSDN. If you don't have any experience at all and are starting fresh, then I would recommend probably the Training Guide. The two practice exams at the end also are a great addition. There is no other better source than this book when looking to prep for this exam.
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