SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation: MCAD/MCSD/MCSE Training Guide Exam 70-229 Training Guides Que: Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Moore, Ed Tittel EDITOR: Books

Product Description

MCAD/MCSD/MCSE Training Guide (70-229): SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation is the perfect study guide to help you pass the 70-229 exam, which is an elective for the MCSD, MCAD, MCDBA, and MCSE programs. If you are preparing for this exam, you'll find our Training Guide to be the most effective self-study tool in the market! This book is your one-stop shop because of its teaching methodology, the accompanying PrepLogic testing software, and superior Web site support at www.examcram.com. The book follows the exam objectives and features numerous exercises to give you hands-on opportunities, exam tips that give you advice for test day, and warnings that alert you to possible mistakes. The Fast Facts section condenses the most important information for last-minute review, and the practice exam is representative of the actual exam.

Each book in the Training Guide series is published under the direction of Series Editor Ed Tittel, the leading authority on IT certification. This book has been subjected to rigorous technical review by a team of industry experts, ensuring content is superior in both coverage and technical accuracy, and has earned the distinction of Cramsession¿ Approved Study Material.

The CD features PrepLogic¿ Practice Tests, Preview Edition. This product includes one complete PrepLogic Practice Test with approximately the same number of questions found on the actual vendor exam. Each question contains full, detailed explanations of the correct and incorrect answers. The engine offers two study modes, Practice Test and Flash Review, full exam customization, and a detailed score report.

From the Back Cover

See all Product Description

Customer Reviews

4 star

1 star

3.0 out of 5 stars

Write a customer review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Disappointing 22 Jan 2005

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I'm reading this book at the moment for my last exam towards my MCSD. I've been using the other QUE books for each of the exams so far and have found them pretty good. This one has been a real struggle to get through though.

The text is very waffly, the author constantly repeats himself which makes it very tempting to skip big sections at the risk of missing an important piece of information. He also goes into great detail on many of the simpler topics and then sums up a complex topic in one sentence which adds to the frustration.

Though I think it's only fair to say that this book is probably going to be adequate to get me through the exam (which is why I'm giving it 2 stars instead of 1), it's not a book I'm going to want to refer back to in the future and I'd recommend looking into alternatives first.

Comment |

Was this review helpful to you?

Yes

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

inadequate for exam 28 Mar 2006

I highly doubt you will pass this exam using this book alone. If you have SQL Server experience, or already passed 70228 you might, but this book misses out so much that you will need to do well on the exam. I had around 6 years experience with Databases (mostly Oracle and a little Sql Server), but it took me 2 attempts and I had to purchase a practise exam too. So this is one hard exam especially compared to 70315.
The book teaches you the basics but has problems - there is no author's website, some of the mistakes I saw make me think the author dictated it to someone and it was never proofread. The practice exam at the end just reuses questions from each chapter - how lazy of the author and the exam has 45 questions but only 44 answers. Part of it's target audience is those studying for MCAD, yet it doesn't include any information on installing SQL Server and setting up your databases, which MCAD students need as they won't have done 70228. The book doesn't come with examples on disc either so you will have to type everything. The section on ownership is short and confusing and in the end I had to build the example myself and experiment to work out what was going on. Considering it is a book about databases the index is lousy too - I doubt I ever easily found what I wanted via the index. The section on Full Text Searches only tells you it needs to be installed in the end of Chapter summary! By the way Full Text Search won't run on XP (the author doesn't tell you that either). The author tends to say everything twice and doesn't always explain topics properly e.g. normalization. The book includes no rules of thumb that are particularly useful for the exam.
Amit Kalani's books in the Que series are excellent, but this book is lousy and appears to have been rushed out and never been updated or supported.
It is difficult to find a recommended book for 70229, maybe Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming by R Viera would be a better buy.

Not particularly stunning. 31 Aug 2004

By MattG

Having read 3 previous books in the Que range which got me through the relevant exams, I found this one disappointing. The author tries to inject some humour into the book - it's a text book for goodness sake! Some of the test questions were ambiguous, and certainly repeated. Certainly doesn't rate as highly as other Que books.