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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework Application Development Foundation, Second edition

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework Application Development Foundation, Second edition

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Author: Tony Northrup
Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 35 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd Updated, Revised ed.
Pages: 794
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 2.4

ISBN: 0735626197
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780735626195
ASIN: 0735626197

Publication Date: November 12, 2008
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Product Description

Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, you’ll work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

  • Develop applications that use system types and collections
  • Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions
  • Create services and multi-threaded applications
  • Implement code-access security and role-based security
  • Implement serialization to read and write complex objects
  • Leverage legacy code using interoperability
  • Monitor and troubleshoot applications
  • Create applications for a global audience

PRACTICE TESTS Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers?including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Your kit includes:

  • 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/13.
  • Official self-paced study guide.
  • Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
  • 300+ practice and review questions.
  • Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# on CD.
  • Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
  • 90-day evaluation of Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008.
  • Fully searchable eBook of this guide.



Customer Reviews:
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3 out of 5 stars Breadth Not Depth   August 25, 2010
David Richards
There are no other books available that provide the breadth of coverage of the .Net Framework than this book. However the coverage is skin deep and not sufficient to give someone enough of a mastery of the .Net Framework to pass the 70-536 certification exam. For the depth of knowledge necessary to pass an exam I have had to turn to more specialized books on the .Net Framework.


1 out of 5 stars Took exam twice, did not pass   July 6, 2010
Bob Barker (Iowa (USA))
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Some of the material for the exams is not even listed inside this book. I have taken the 70-536 twice now, with 2 months worth of studying--and have still not passed. The second edition is still full of errors.


3 out of 5 stars Decent summary, practice tests lacking   June 10, 2010
Jordan D. Liberman (San Diego, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I haven't taken the test yet, but I felt the book does a decent job of overall summarizing the main topics. My main gripe (and the reason this book gets only 3 stars) is the practice exam questions that come with the book. They are overly specific, often cover topics that the book never addressed, and from talking with other people (and looking into other books/tests) it sounds like these questions aren't particularly indicative of the actual certification exams. The questions that come with the book seem to want me to memorize syntax, parameter ordering, and a lot of other nit picky details, while neglecting to address the underlying concepts -- which I expect are more important to passing the real exam.


2 out of 5 stars Unsatisfactory   May 21, 2010
Einar Waaler Høst (Oslo Norway)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have several issues with this book.

First off, I resent the fact that it is "bi-lingual". As it is, a third of the book is useless to me (i.e. the VB.NET code samples) - a complete waste of dead trees and ink. It's not only superfluous, it is distracting, since I must continually scan for the C# code. Please bother to print two different editions of the book. It should be trivial.

Second, there is too much generic boilerplate text. Each chapter starts with the same kind of generic paragraphs stating that you should have some prior experience with .NET and Visual Studio blah blah blah. Again, I have to scan the text to see where the actual content starts.

Third, I would have liked to see some illustrations! Several topics (such as code access security) would benefit greatly from visual presentations to accompany or replace part of the text. As it is, I have to mentally deserialize the text to build up these images in my head instead.

Finally, a complaint about the exam itself (not the book) is that there are too many questions about random .NET arcana (such as the sequence of parameters to a method call, or whether you pass something to a constructor or set a property after constructing the object, or if there's is a factory method you should use rather than a constructor). A good test would focus on understanding, not on the stuff that Intellisense and MSDN gives you.



4 out of 5 stars good book on extremely broad range of knowledge   February 8, 2010
Ken B. Pierce Jr. (Corvallis, OR United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This was definitely the .Net overview book I was looking for. I learned a ton and was generally pretty satisfied. However, having read each chapter 2-3 times, taken extensive notes, worked through all the questions and some of the labs, I did not pass the exam the first time. I was close. When reading many of the questions I felt as if the topic had only been briefly covered in the text. However I would also have to say, your knowledge of .Net would need to be pretty incredible to pass without having reviewed this book.

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