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Summary: Not helpful
Review: Disappointing. I was hoping this book would be useful to refresh my mind of the specific types of items that would be on the exam. Unfortunately, it serves better as a reference book. It contains much more information than is covered on the exam, and yet does not go into sufficient detail to explain the topics. The practice exam on the enclosed CDROM is klunky and most of the questions are much harder than those found on the actual Microsoft exam--it may help you learn, but it will take much more time than necessary.I found Professional C# a much better guide to doing well on the exam.
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Summary: Not helpful
Review: Disappointing. I was hoping this book would be useful to refresh my mind of the specific types of items that would be on the exam. Unfortunately, it serves better as a reference book. It contains much more information than is covered on the exam, and yet does not go into sufficient detail to explain the topics. The practice exam on the enclosed CDROM is klunky and most of the questions are much harder than those found on the actual Microsoft exam--it may help you learn, but it will take much more time than necessary. I found Professional C# a much better guide to doing well on the exam.
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Summary: A must have
Review: Passed 70-316 today with a score of 940. This is the only book that I've used to prepare for exam. This book gives you exactly what you need for this exam in a condensed form. Some of the practice questions in the book were on the actual exam! It can't get better than this :-)
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Summary: Excellent 70-316 resource
Review: The 70-316 tests Windows knowledge. The 70-316 Training Guide and Exam Cram provide a thorough understanding of using Visual Studio, C# and Microsoft .Net for programming Windows applications. Like all Exam Crams, this book is meant as a review. As such, it is more than adequate. Read the Training Guide first for a thorough undertanding of the Windows concepts. Then read this Exam Cram 70-316 as a review before the test.
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Summary: Most Time-Efficient Study Guide
Review: There is no question about it -- the 70-316 is a tough exam. I studied for 2 months, about 10 hours per week, and passed the exam with a score of 900 out of 1000. I used both this Exam Cram book and the "MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-316)" by Amit Kalani. In short, I found that this book was the most efficient study guide and allowed me to learn the most material in the shortest amount of time.
My recommendation for anyone studying for the 70-316 would be to gain a solid foundation through the "MCAD/MCSD Training Guide" but then once you feel comfortable with the basic features of Visual Studio and .NET, ditch the "MCAD/MCSD Training Guide" and switch over to this book. You will learn a lot faster by using this book as a general outline and making up your own examples in Visual Studio and doing your own research on the topics presented in each chapter. If you simply try to memorize everything then studying for the exam will be boring, frustrating, and difficult.
I definitely had fun once I started using this book and working through my own examples. It also helped to work backwards from the practice tests, by going back to Visual Studio and actually writing code to help understand any difficult or confusing questions. The practice tests in this book generally provide a good indication of what the real test will be like, although I found they contained fewer questions of medium difficulty than the real exam. The practice tests contained more questions that were either trivially easy or extremely difficult. On the real exam, most of the questions were of medium+ difficulty. Unlike the practice tests in this book, the real exam had very few easy questions and only a few questions that I would rank as "very difficult."
There were only a few questions in this book (maybe 1-2) that contained mistakes, but this wasn't a big problem, especially if you go back and work through the questions in Visual Studio. I did not use any of the Prep-logic tests included on the CD, but from reading other reviews, I understand that they are of dubious quality. I also didn't particularly care for the way the book displays answers directly under each question. Even if you use a piece of paper to cover the answers while you read the questions it is sometimes possible to slip and "accidentally" see the answer. Overall my complaints are minor and the book still deserves the 5 stars I am giving it.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book gives great over of topics covered on the exam. The practice tests are helpful and offer a sense of the questions on the actual exam. Recommend for seasoned developers, with some experience with C#.
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Summary: Great book and great value!
Review: This book helped me pass 70-316. The book is well written and the two sample exams are close to that of the actual exam. The CD included has a ton of information, including the other QUE book in electronic format and yet another sample exam. I used a few books and this was by far the most beneficial.
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Summary: Used this book and passed the test
Review: This book is just like other Kalani's books!
By reading it a couple of times during 2 months, I passed the exam easily!
Would like to recommend to those who are preparing for the 70-316 test!
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Summary: Great Content, Great Practice Exams
Review: This book was exceptionally helpful in preparing me for the exam. If you want to pass 70-316 and you were only going to have one resource, this is the book you should have. I also studied the MCAD book and the combo was more than adequate (862 on the exam).
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Summary: Great Content, Great Practice Exams
Review: This book was exceptionally helpful in preparing me for the exam. If you want to pass 70-316 and you were only going to have one resource, this is the book you should have. I also studied the MCAD book and the combo was more than adequate (862 on the exam).
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