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EXAM PREP GUIDE
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCPD Exam 70-548—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:
- Build and validate a Windows client application prototype
- Create a consistent user interface using MDI, SDI, and control grouping
- Design, develop, and implement Windows client application components
- Develop mechanisms for data access, exception handing, event logging, and application feedback
- Define, assess, and implement a testing strategy
- Validate a deployment plan to determine readiness
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 12/31/11. Details inside.
- Official self-paced study guide.
- Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
- 400+ practice and review questions.
- Case scenarios and lab exercises.
- Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# code samples on CD.
- 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.
- Fully searchable eBook of this guide.
About the Author
Mike Snell, MCPD, MCSD, is a Microsoft® Regional Director with 20 years of software development and consulting experience. He has written several books on Visual Studio® and .NET.
Bruce Johnson is a 25-year veteran of the computer industry with a passion for system design and development. He coauthored MCPD Self-Paced Training Kits for Exams 70-548 and 70-547.
Brian C. Lanham specializes in developing Windows and Web based applications using the .NET Framework.
I am a Microsoft C# MVP and the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering software and training solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. I am also a speaker on the INEA Speaker's Bureau and have appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. I am the author of the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET", the upcoming "Prescriptive Data Architectures", both for Addison-Wesley as well as co-author of several certification books for Microsoft Press. I have been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel's Rich Client Series. I have enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years.
Sara Morgan, MCSD, MCDBA, specializes in Web-based applications and the author of Building Intelligent .NET Applications: Agents, Data Mining, Rule-Based Systems, and Speech Processing.
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That said, the exam didn't really match up with my expectations, or what was covered in the book. If anything, the exam seemed to be about a lot of the stuff I'd covered previously in the MCTS exams. So neither really hit exactly what I felt I should've been examined on, and the book and exam didn't really cover the same areas. And there are probably better books out there for covering development generally.
I have just passed 70-548 and despite the bad reviews I stuck with my tried and tested method of preparing for previous microsoft exams, by just reading the recommended text - I can't stick reading MSDN!!!
I've got to say that compared with the previous prep guides I've read for the 70-536 and 70-526 exams IMHO this was much better written and much easier to read. Picking up on a previous review, I could only count 4 authors and I couldn't differentiate the chapters each of them had written, which I am pretty sure I could with previous texts - in particular the 70-536 prep guide.
I only noticed one or two inconsistencies, and these were where the book text didn't match up to the answers to the end of chapter review questions. Again comparing this to the other two books I've read, this was a vast improvement.
Another thing to pick up on from previous reviews, is that if you are expecting lots of code samples like you get in the prep guides for 70-536 and 70-526 then this is not the book and probably not the exam for you. The MCPD exam is designed to test your ability to understand the why, where and when of choosing a specific technology. The MCTS exams are designed to test your ability to actually implement the technology.
All in all I think this was an excellent resource for preparing for the 70-548 exam - I passed the exam by just reading it. However, I must say that I would like the chance to review the questions against that appeared in my exam against the book. When I was taking the exam I felt a lot of the questions I was answering based on my 8 years of development experience rather than what I read from the book. On the other hand I did read the book 4 or 5 times before taking the exam so maybe I just learnt a lot without really realising it... ;o)
The test questions were helpful showing again, that MSPress books and MS tests do not fit together (having passed other tests this should be (-come) common knowledge...)
I hope MS will try out new authors or let people like Jeffry Richter write more books.
My opinion: NOT test worthy
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