MCSE Readiness Review Exam 70-029: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7 [Paperback]

Microsoft Press (Author), Robert Sheldon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Mcse Readiness Review | Publication Date: January 1, 2000

Designed to help you evaluate your readiness for the MCP Exam 70-029: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. Soft- cover. CD-ROM included. DLC: Electronic data processing personnel-- Certification.

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735606730
• ISBN-13: 978-0735606739
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,153,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good supplement, January 31, 2000

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This review is from: MCSE Readiness Review Exam 70-029: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7 (Paperback)

This book should not be used as the only book needed to pass the exam. Without additional experience, training or other resources you will not pass the test. This book ( and the whole readiness review series) is designed to see how well you know the material. The questions in the book and on the CD are easier than the test questions but they do show the reader trends in strengths and weakinesses and areas to concentrate.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you want to be an MCDBA you need HANDS-ON., September 6, 2000

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An MCDBA (The MSSQL 7.0 Trenches) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Readiness Review Exam 70-029: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7 (Paperback)

This is a very good book to help you prepare for the 70-029 Designing and Implementing Databases with SQL 7.0 ---IF--- and I stress IF you do the hands-on practice as outlined in the book. If you are looking for a book that will drill you in a similar way that the test is going to then this is not your book. The review questions and practice test questions are nearly identical to each other and very easy if you know your stuff but nowhere near as detailed or "difficult" as the actual test. This book follows the testing objectives point by point and gives you hands-on practice on each objective then offers review questions to solidify your understanding of the topic however, you could do this on your own by printing out the testing objectives from the Microsoft website. The difference is you don't have to think up practice exercises or review on your own. One of the features of this book is the supplemental reading list after each review point which is good reading however, most of the online or downloadable materials have moved so you will have to search for them on the MS website. If you want to use this book as a hands-on preparatory guide and you already have a firm grasp on MS SQL Server 7.0 then it will suffice. If you don't know SQL Server 7.0 and want to learn, this book is no good to you. The best audience for this book is people who know MS SQL 7.0 and want to ensure they have covered all aspects of it before taking the test. This book will not serve as any sort of reference guide before or after taking the test. All in all this is a good book but the 70-029 test is not an easy test and nothing, I mean NOTHING, will prepare you for it but HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE. Do the practice, absorb the supplemental reading which includes the SQL BOL and you will pass. BTW if you don't know what SQL BOL is you will likely fail at least once anyway. ;)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not nearly as good as Transcender, but worth it anyway, August 14, 2000

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Martin G. Nicholson - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCSE Readiness Review Exam 70-029: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 7 (Paperback)

I used this practice exam and Transcenders and passed the 70-029 exam on the first try. Transcenders are far more like the actual exam. If you can purchase only one practice exam, I suggest Transcenders, but if you got another $30 to invest, hey this 'second' practice exam is worth it.

The testing software included with this book could be greatly improved by providing a way to save and print test session question/answer as Transcender does. That way, you can print out your incorrects, grab a cup of whatever, sit down at your PC with pencil and hi-liter, and go over what you got wrong. Currently, you must write down by hand the question numbers you get incorrect and refer back to the book :-(

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