- Paperback: 2752 pages
- Publisher: MICROSOFT PRESS; 1 edition (28 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735623767
- ISBN-13: 978-0735623767
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19 x 13.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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EXAM PREP GUIDES
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by three required MCPD: Web Developer exams—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.
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.
Maximize your exam performance with preparation for:
EXAM 70-536 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation
- Use types, collections, generics, and regular expressions to manage data
- Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications
- Implement code access and role-based security, and data encryption
- Work with serialization and reflection techniques
- Instrument applications with logging and tracing
- Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke
EXAM 70-528 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development
- Create, trace, configure, and deploy Web applications
- Integrate data into your application using Microsoft ADO.NET, XML, and data-bound controls
- Implement forms authentication, impersonation, and login controls
- Configure user controls and create custom Web controls
- Use themes, user profiles, and Web parts for customizable, personalized Web sites
- Manage server-side and client-side application state
EXAM 70-547 Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
- Evaluate Web application requirements and build a validation prototype
- Use style sheets, master pages, Web parts, and user controls for a consistent UI
- Design, develop, and implement 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 and analyze performance to determine readiness
Your all-in-one kit includes:
- Official self-paced study guides for three required exams.
- Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
- 1200+ practice and review questions.
- Case scenarios and lab exercises.
- Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# code samples on CD.
- 15% exam discount from Microsoft; good for three exams. Offer expires 12/31/11. Voucher inside.
- 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.
- Fully searchable eBooks for all three guides.
About the Author
Tony Northrup, MCTS, MCSE, CISP, MVP, is a networking consultant and author who's written several Sefl-Paced Training Kits. He is the co-author of Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP).
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.
Glenn Johnson is a trainer and writer focusing on ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, and .NET internals. He is author of Programming Microsoft® ADO.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics.
Brian C. Lanham specializes in developing Windows and Web based applications using the .NET Framework.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
These books are a bit difficult to read but then these are very technical books for technical people. I have read through all books in the series, taken the exams and am a much better developer for it.
The books have an excellent learning scale. Even if you are very experienced you will pick up all kinds of new things. If you want to be a good developer you HAVE to read these books and achieving the qualification sets you a huge advantage over the rest when looks for jobs.
For the other reviewer who didnt understand these books and threw them in the bin - you are exactly the kind of person who should have read them.
The books have an excellent learning scale. Even if you are very experienced you will pick up all kinds of new things. If you want to be a good developer you HAVE to read these books and achieving the qualification sets you a huge advantage over the rest when looks for jobs.
For the other reviewer who didnt understand these books and threw them in the bin - you are exactly the kind of person who should have read them.
6 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm halfway through 70-536 and these books have just gone in the bin, they're completely unusable. Riddled with more mistakes than you'd expect in a first draft, let alone a book that's supposed to have been proof read, these books make an already difficult subject impossible to learn. The final straw came with Chapter 9 (installing and configuring applications). In lesson one we're told in the "Real World" box how the this version of VS reduced a previously 5 hour job down to 15 minutes because there was no typing etc. Only to then spend an hour and a half on a lesson writing the equivalent to a Harry Potter novel. So did they show us the "old" way, or were they lying? I've no idea. Lesson 2 comes along, again, loads more typing, then when you try the exercise, turns out the file you need for it isn't there. What a complete waste of my life - don't waste yours on these books, you've been warned.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Boring book, but what else are you going to get?
6 Oct 2007
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Unfortunately, there really isn't much material out there that covers the MCPD certifications. In fact, based on my brief search, this was the only book that covered it. So it was either get this book or just go off the list of material posted on the Microsoft website. The book does provide three 15% off vouchers and a program of test questions. And for that, it gets the +2 stars.
After that, the material is pretty weak. It's written as-is (kinda ben stein-ish) and the code is confusing to read. I often times have to look at the MSDN equivalent material to get a better understanding of what the author was really trying to say and/or code. But again, what are you going to do? The list that microsoft presents on their certifications page is too vague, you need direction.
You're going to definately need more material to look through outside of what's in the book, but it's a good place to build from. So far I have just taken 1 out of the 3 tests, but I passed on my first time. If you were to use the book as a guide, shouldn't be a problem to do the same.
After that, the material is pretty weak. It's written as-is (kinda ben stein-ish) and the code is confusing to read. I often times have to look at the MSDN equivalent material to get a better understanding of what the author was really trying to say and/or code. But again, what are you going to do? The list that microsoft presents on their certifications page is too vague, you need direction.
You're going to definately need more material to look through outside of what's in the book, but it's a good place to build from. So far I have just taken 1 out of the 3 tests, but I passed on my first time. If you were to use the book as a guide, shouldn't be a problem to do the same.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
All you need to pass the MCPD Web Developer
21 Jun 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am an experienced developer, and used this set to pass the MCPD Web. It should be all anyone really needs.
Everyone is different, by my recommendation is to use the books only for reference. Take the tests on the disk. Then for the questions you get wrong or find yourself guessing - look up the topic. Study for your weaknesses, otherwise anyone with experience working with this stuff is going to be rehashing everything they already know.
I read people complain about how the books don't cover everything, and am at a loss to know what they could be talking about. If you know everything contained in the books or even possess about 85% of that knowledge, then there really is no way you can fail the tests.
Everyone is different, by my recommendation is to use the books only for reference. Take the tests on the disk. Then for the questions you get wrong or find yourself guessing - look up the topic. Study for your weaknesses, otherwise anyone with experience working with this stuff is going to be rehashing everything they already know.
I read people complain about how the books don't cover everything, and am at a loss to know what they could be talking about. If you know everything contained in the books or even possess about 85% of that knowledge, then there really is no way you can fail the tests.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Accomplishes Its Goal
24 May 2009
Format:Paperback
Let me first say I have given this book a 5 star review because, in spite of its slightly detractive reception, it does what its meant to do and that is prepare you for the 3 exams that lead to an MCPD Web Developer designation.
If you are buying this book to prepare for, and pass, the MCPD exams (3) for web development, then you will not be let down. I have just completed the first of the three exams and passed with no problems at all.
How it helped me as a new developer:
Being a relatively new developer (2 years), I found the 70-536 book to be a great resource as I stumbled through my first .NET applications. When faced with challenges before I had read the book I would google around for answers not knowing what exactly I was looking for. After I had read through the entire book just once my searching was significantly shortened as I would recall reading about x or y in the book and would pull up the ebook and browse my way to the topic I needed. I could then use the code samples as a 'framework' for how to structure my code to accomplish what I wanted.
How I used this material to pass the first exam:
I read the book once and then began taking the practice exams until I was consistently scoring 80 - 90%. At that point, make note of which questions you're still getting wrong and review that section in the book or print out just the answers to those questions and study them. Then, go back and take the practice tests and see how your score improves.
Summary:
If you're not an expert in .NET development already, you stand to learn plenty from this book set. You also have all the material you need to take and pass the exams so long as you study hard and take the practice tests.
The book does have its faults. Typos and such. But, the books are designed to prepare you to pass the exams, not make your spell checker happy.
Besides, I felt a little proud on more than one occasion when I looked at something that was incorrect in a code segment and knew immediately that it was wrong (and how to correct it). When you make those sort of observations, you're making progress.
Anyway, aside from the above mentioned draw back, the material is pretty solid and gets the job done. The typos and such certainly do not take away from the books ability to deliver. You'll see other reviewers who've left poor ratings say the same.
I highly recommend this set for anyone looking to progress in their career, take and pass the exams addressed by this set, and learn more about the .NET Framework along the way.
There are other materials available out there if you prefer it. Just look for study materials for the individual exams, not the full MCPD collection.
Regardless of how you proceed, good luck.
If you are buying this book to prepare for, and pass, the MCPD exams (3) for web development, then you will not be let down. I have just completed the first of the three exams and passed with no problems at all.
How it helped me as a new developer:
Being a relatively new developer (2 years), I found the 70-536 book to be a great resource as I stumbled through my first .NET applications. When faced with challenges before I had read the book I would google around for answers not knowing what exactly I was looking for. After I had read through the entire book just once my searching was significantly shortened as I would recall reading about x or y in the book and would pull up the ebook and browse my way to the topic I needed. I could then use the code samples as a 'framework' for how to structure my code to accomplish what I wanted.
How I used this material to pass the first exam:
I read the book once and then began taking the practice exams until I was consistently scoring 80 - 90%. At that point, make note of which questions you're still getting wrong and review that section in the book or print out just the answers to those questions and study them. Then, go back and take the practice tests and see how your score improves.
Summary:
If you're not an expert in .NET development already, you stand to learn plenty from this book set. You also have all the material you need to take and pass the exams so long as you study hard and take the practice tests.
The book does have its faults. Typos and such. But, the books are designed to prepare you to pass the exams, not make your spell checker happy.
Besides, I felt a little proud on more than one occasion when I looked at something that was incorrect in a code segment and knew immediately that it was wrong (and how to correct it). When you make those sort of observations, you're making progress.
Anyway, aside from the above mentioned draw back, the material is pretty solid and gets the job done. The typos and such certainly do not take away from the books ability to deliver. You'll see other reviewers who've left poor ratings say the same.
I highly recommend this set for anyone looking to progress in their career, take and pass the exams addressed by this set, and learn more about the .NET Framework along the way.
There are other materials available out there if you prefer it. Just look for study materials for the individual exams, not the full MCPD collection.
Regardless of how you proceed, good luck.
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