| | |  | Investigations | Home » » MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework Application Development Foundation, Second edition | | | | | | | Description: | | Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536and 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.
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• ISBN13: 9780735626195
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tony Northrup | | Hardcover:
| 794 pages | | Publisher:
| Microsoft Press | | Publication Date:
| November 12, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0735626197 | | Package Length:
| 9.06 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.48 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.36 inches | | Package Weight:
| 4.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 34 reviews |
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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Took exam twice, did not passJul 06, 2010
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.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Decent summary, practice tests lackingJun 10, 2010
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.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 UnsatisfactoryMay 21, 2010
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.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 good book on extremely broad range of knowledgeFeb 08, 2010
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.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Good foundation for the examFeb 06, 2010
This book will get you ready for the exam 70% of the way. It covers the basics very well. Using the accompanying CD for exam practices and reviewing material based on the questions asked, will get you another 10 to 15% ready. Complete your preparation with MSDN for in depth explanation and exam preps software for practices will get you ready.
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