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MCITP Developer: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Solutions Design

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I have only read through the first chapter and the associated questions and answers and I have already found many errors. I am not talking about a "matter of opinion" error, I am talking about hard errors.

As an example, question 20 of chapter one lists several answers, A-F. The correct answer is E, create a field as a persisted computed column. However in the answers section, it gives the correct answer as D, and goes on to explain that answer D is correct because it creates a persisted computed column. That is incorrect. Answer D only includes creating a computed column, not a persisted one.

I hope it gets much better as I go along. Unless this test is MUCH easier than other Microsoft tests, the questions in this book are far too easy.

I'm not sure what the other reviewer was expecting, but studying for and passing the 70-441 Exam was my focus. The book covered the material well and I passed the exam. The Case Studies were very helpful as the entire exam was the exact same format. There are 10 additional case studies on the CD. I found only 2 minor technical errors (they all have some errors) and a couple of mistakes in the question answers - they were easy to identify. Yes, it would have been nice to copy the code out of the PDF file. All in all, I'm very satisfied.

This book is very poorly written. The amount of grammatical and spelling errors are driving me insane!! Not to mention I am finding some of the same technical errors mention in other reviews about this book. Did it even go through a review process (both technical and grammatical)???

The one benefit of this book is the Sample Case Studies. I have used some other study materials and the wording and types of questions from this book appear to be inline with some of the other materials I have used.

I am taking the test this weekend (10/27/2007). The majority of my study efforts have been with this book (reading it cover to cover), so I hope this has enough information to get me through the exam, but I am currently having doubts.