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Title: MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-315): Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual C# and Visual Studio.NET by Amit Kalani ISBN: 0-7897-2822-2 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I Love This Book
Comment: This book is a clear, comprehensive and interesting guide to understanding ASP.NET. It is jam packed with explanations, exercises, review material and example questions in the style of the Microsoft exams.
A word of warning - it will not teach you C#, HTML, Javascript or SQL Server, and unless you understand these first you will have problems. As stated on the cover the book is "designed for those who have at least one year of experience developing web-based applications and a working knowledge of C#.NET".
I would highly recommend this book to anyone studying for MCAD/MCSD exams, or indeed to anyone who just wants to understand ASP.NET, and based upon my experience with it I will definitely be buying Amit Kalani's forthcoming book for the 70-320 Web Services exam.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good enough for the exam and much more
Comment: After read this book and pass the exam 70-315, I bought the other books for the exams 70-320 and 70-316. The author goes directly to the exam objectives and covers them completely. The excercises are very helpful to warm up with all different topics, help you to obtain the experience and practice with the most obscure sections of ASP.NET. Easy reading and good exam question at the end of each chapter.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent supplement for the cert test preparation materials
Comment: If you live in North America, then in order to be competitive in the job market for .NET web positions you need two things:
1) certifications
2) actual hands-on knowledge and skills
Kalani takes the 70-315 cert "objectives" (as published by Microsoft) and develops an elaborate and comprehensive study plan around these objectives. Deep explanations of each topic is followed by one or more hands-on exercises which provide hands-on practice to, both, build an understanding of the topics and reinforce the concepts. Just reading or looking at code is not enough. You need to try each concept and write some code. You can't learn to fly a plane by just reading how to do it.
As you learn each of the objectives that are expected to be on the cert exam, you are also learning how to do it so, once you pass that cert and show up on the job somewhere, you will not only have cert exam passing skills, you will also have the C# ASP.NET development skills that the cert exam is supposed to be testing.
You need to have both.
Using this book alone is enough to learn how to program with ASP.NET. However, it is not enough to pass the exam (unless you are very good at passing exams). Kalani does not cover everything on the cert, nor are the questions at the back of each chapter (and the end of the book) a representative sample of the questions you'll face on the day of the cert exam. You need use one of the better cert preparation practice exam products such as TestKing or Transcender. (The sample PrepLogic exam in the back of Kalani is OK for reviewing the concepts but it is not as good as TestKing or Transcender which are updated regularly and have variations of some of the latest questions on them.) I would say that TESTKING + KALANI would be a good combination to get you a passing score on the cert.
One other thing, even though neither the 70-315 nor the 70-305 certs are very focused on the details of the VB.NET/C#.NET language, if you are not familiar with the VB.NET/C# language then you should first bring yourself up to speed on the C# dialect of the language before preparing for the web (ASP.NET) cert. The Kalani books makes no attempt to teach the C# dialect of VB.NET/C#.
Kalani is a better choice than the Microsoft self-study "redbook." The objective of the MS redbooks seems to be to teach you the concepts that are tested on the cert, but not to prepare you for the specific questions that will appear.
As a .NET instructor, I used this book as my textbook for the ASP.NET I taught at a local college. I will tell you the same thing I told my students. The chapters in Kalani are long (some over 100 pages), but if you make the effort to do most or all of the exercises and practice the questions in the back of each chapter, you will learn the topic. If you supplement that with a TestKing or Transcender, you will have everything you need to pass the exam.
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