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MCSD Analyzing Requirements and Defining .NET Solutions Architectures Study Guide (Exam 70-300 (Certification Press)

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Get a review from someone who has actually read the book before buying. Let me be the 2nd reviewer here who hasn't read the book, but let me share my experience over the years with these study guides. All the publishers have published good guides, but they've also all published turkeys. Primarily, a good study guide in the past is no guarantee of a good study guide in the future. No one publisher has been consistent, and it's not uncommon at all for any of these publishers to rush to market with a lemon filled with errors and totally off the mark. As I recall, this publisher missed the boat on the old MCSD Analyzing Requirements with a well-written book with fabulous depth on the topic of development strategies, but that didn't have anything at all to do with the test. Each study guide from each publisher must be evaluated on its own merits regardless of the publisher's track record and (to a lesser extent) the author's track record. BTW, Amazon shouldn't have allowed the first reviewer to submit a review on a book he hadn't read. He judged the book by its cover. 5 stars... C'mon.

This book will only frustrate the experienced programmer and mislead the beginner. The authors' explanations about some of the topics are shallow and facts stated blatantly with no justification (For example, the author states in chapter 8 that the Application object may be used for object pooling and recommends elsewhere to store session information into a cache object). Some of the terminology used by the author seem to have been made up with no equivalent definition found elsewhere. To prepare for the exam, Exam Cram does a much better job (ISBN 0-7897-2929-6). Don't waste your time and money on this book!