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

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by: Tony Northrup

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

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Product Details:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780735626195
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0735626197
Label: Microsoft Press
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 794
Publication Date: November 12, 2008
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Studio: Microsoft Press

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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 70-536âand on the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, youâll work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then reinforce and apply what youâve 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

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- good book on extremely broad range of knowledge
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 ... Read More

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- Good foundation for the exam
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.

Rating:

- Very good and fast
The send was very fast to Brazil and the book is better than I imagined...

Thank you Amazon! I recommend this book...

Mayck

Rating:

- Based on the slightly earlier book
I had the previous version of this book, while a later release there were still a few errors here and there.
Generally I would say if you are studying for this exam, then you should get this book.

I did do a write up on my blog for this exam: [...]

Rating:

- Premature review
So far so good, the code examples work and the author(s) cover a broad range of topics. As this point I am on chapter 9 and have not yet taken the exam so I cannot fully rate the benefits of this book.