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MCSD Fast Track: Visual Basic 6, Exam: 70-175

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Most of this book is the same as the MCSD Fast Track VB 6 book for the other exam (70-176). There is some useful information, but most of it is a cursory look.

These two books should have been put together into one book and made better. If you buy both, you've been had.

The book should only be used as an additional review material for the exam. It certainly does not compare to "Exam Cram: VB6 Distributed", but it has some good chapters that are applicable for the exam. Some areas were not covered in enough detail nor they have been explained clearly (i.e MTS security).

This book works fine for the test but not enough to cover the whole test and also missed some very important part of it

This book is well written, and stays on topic for the most part. Granted, there is a lot of carry over from the 70-176 (and if I had it to do over again, I would only buy this book and not the 176 book because of their simularities).

Plain and simple: There is not enough content in this book to prepare you for the 70-175 exam. Period.

Drop me a line if you want some pointers...

On both of the exams for Visual Basic 6.0, there are numerous questions about Visual SourceSafe and the Package and Deployment Wizard. You will need to have a through understanding of these in order to pass the exam. This book gives the basics but does not go in to great detail on these subjects. I would recommend James D. Foxall's "MCSD in a Nutshell" and the Transcender courses if you are really serious about your certification. Visual Basic 6.0 is still the main development environment at many companies. You want the best training and education you can get. This book is about average. This book is OK if you use it as a supplemental book to the other study guides.

Well, this book is really oriented on the topics of the 70-175 exam but it just go quickly over the themes without going to deep in the matter. It could be good for a fast review if all the topics but YOU REALLY NEED ADITIONAL SOURCES. You can not miss the official training course from Microsoft. If you have passed the 70-176, then with the course materials and this book you would do Ok.

This book is exactly what it claims to be. A quick guide to what you need to know for the 175 exam. It won't tell you how to program, it assumes you know that already (hence for EXPERIENCED candidates) and it certainly won't give you questions from the exam (there are in fact, no questions in this book from the exam) but it does give you a basis of what you NEED to know and what you need to understand to pass this exam.

I give it a heartly thumbs up as it did exactly what it claimed to do, it helped an experienced candidate pass.

As with the 70-176 book, I used this one to pass 70-175. It was quite helpful, although not as in-depth in some areas as 70-176 was. The coverage of MTS was somewhat limited. However, it provides good comparisons between DHTML and IIS WebClass applications, which you'll need to know! Also, it has a good explanation of Dynamic Load Balancing, n-tier application development, and other theoretical concepts. These are *very* important topics on the exam. It provides an excellent roadmap for ADO, which you'll get a lot of in 70-175 (unlike 70-176). I would recommend this book as a guide, while using the product and MSDN as a secondary source. Take the sample at the end of the book (which is a bit easier than the actual exam, but definitely representative of what you'll see), and if you score 85% or higher, you're probably in good shape for the test. Good luck!

First of all let me say that I reserve 5 stars for a book that basically walks me through an exam. I haven't seen one yet! Overall this book wasn't too bad. Although it was vague in a lot of areas. The objectives were covered, not in great detail but covered. If you already have a good background working with VB development this book can be used as a prep for the exam. The questions at the end of the book were pretty good, although not really like a Microsoft question. This book in my opinion should not be the only book you use to get ready for the exam. If you are starting from scratch, you might look elsewhere for material.

You only need to purchase the 70-176 book in this series. 95% of all the information in this book is contained in the 70-176 book by the same authors. The other 5% you do not need.