The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Prep Kit: Database Implementation and Maintenance [Paperback]

Mark Horninger (Series Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1597494208 | ISBN-13: 978-1597494205 | Publication Date: April 27, 2009 | Edition: 1

SQL Server 2008 is the latest update to Microsoft's flagship database management system. This is the largest update since SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2008 is a much more significant update than SQL Server 2005, because it brings increased ability to deliver data across more platforms, and thus many different types of devices. New functionality also allows for easy storage and retrieval of digitized images and video. These attributes address the recent explosion in the popularity of web-based video and server and desktop virtualization.

The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Prep Kit prepares readers for the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam: SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance.

• This is The 'Real' Microsoft Exam Prep Kit, and provides the reader with independent and unbiased exam tips and warnings everything they need to know to ensure certification success.


• Authored by Mark Horninger, a nationally recognized leader in SQL Server with over 50 Microsoft certifications to his credit; Mark knows what it takes to successfully navigate Microsoft exams.


• Complete study package offers Syngress proven pedagogy including practice exams via the book's companion site
  

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About the Author

Mark Horninger , A+, Net+, Security+, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCAD,MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP, MCPD is President and founder of Haverford Consultants Inc.( http://www.haverford-consultants.com/ ), located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. He develops custom applications and system engineering solutions, specializing primarily in Microsoft operating systems and Microsoft BackOffice products. He is also an adjunct professor at Kaplan University in the Web department. He has over 15 years of computer consulting experience and has passed 50+ Microsoft Certified Exams. During his career Mark has worked on many extensive and diverse projects including database development, application development, training, embedded systems development and Windows NT and 200x project rollout planning and implementations. Mark lives with his wife Debbie and two children in Havertown, PA. He is the author of Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows XP Professional MCSE Windows 2000 Professional Study Guide and Designing SQL Server 2000 Databases for .NET Enterprise Servers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 696 pages
• Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (April 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597494208
• ISBN-13: 978-1597494205
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #453,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You Can Do Better, October 26, 2009

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Kurt Survance (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Prep Kit: Database Implementation and Maintenance (Paperback)

I will start with the positive things I can say about this book:

One: It covers the whole range of topics in the exam in some depth.
Two: If you read and study this book you are likely to pass the exam despite the serious problems of accuracy in the material.

The sections of this book were written by several different authors. Some of the sections are quite good, others are acceptable and some have been written by authors who simply did not know their subject. The lead authors are well known in the SQL Server world and certainly understand their material. I suspect that they may have been a bit embarassed by the overall quality of this book when they saw the finished product.

If you have any experience with SQL Server you will find many things stated in this book that you know are just not true. The problem is that when an author tells you something that is patently false, you have to call in question all the new things you might have learned in that section of the book. Uncertainty about the facts is not something you want to take into the exam room with you.

Each section has a 20 question quiz, but for answers you are given only the number of the question and the letter of the multiple choice answer, e.g. 1. A, 2. C, 3. B, etc. To get an explanation of right and wrong answers (which is the heart of any exam prep book) you have to download a pdf file from the publisher's website. The PDF has the same problem of uneven accuracy as the text.

To add to the uneven quality of the writing, editing and proofreading are virtually non-existant. There are obvious typos sprinkled throughout. There are sentences that make absolutely no sense.

This is not an inexpensive book. You can do better.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unhappy with MS Press Books / Gave this a try., June 5, 2009

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Russel L. Thomas "R Thomas" (Camas, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Prep Kit: Database Implementation and Maintenance (Paperback)

Last year I took the Exam for SQL 2005 after using the MS Self Paced Training kit. After my test taking experience I was not at all pleased with the MS Press Self Paced Kit. I would say 80% of that book had nothing to do with the actual test.

Now that I'm on MSSQL 2008 and I am getting ready for the 2008 test I started shopping for test prep material again. With no faith whatsoever in the MS Press book I decided to give this one a try.

I can't say what the 2008 test will be like, I haven't taken it yet. But I do know that based on my experience with the 2005 test. This book is much more focused on the actual exam and preparing you for such. Don't get me wrong... this book wasn't written by a bunch of brain dump hacks attempting to regurgitate every thing they remember when they took the test (and half the time mislead the reader). This book is for learning concepts not simply memorizing questions and answers... but at the same time it doesn't get too deep when there is no need. The writing style boils it down nicely and has helped me be a better DBA whether I take the test or not.

I'll post a follow up after I take the exam but as of this point I am extremely pleased with my purchase and have found the book a great test prep.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A mixed bag. But the bottom line: I studied this book and passed!, July 15, 2009

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Ma, Tien Jui (Taipei Taiwan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Prep Kit: Database Implementation and Maintenance (Paperback)

My first read through of the book excited me on some of the cross-subject points that I never found on other books. But yes when I read it in details there're errors scattered around. Some of them are not just typo.

But it really helped me to pass the exam.