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Visual FoxPro Certification Exams Study Guide

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Thanks to the authors and editor, I passed the MCP exam the first time I took it. Although it's relatively short (166 pp.), it is *densely* packed with an excellent overview of everything you'll need to know to pass the exam. The "Further reading" section at the end of each chapter helped me focus my preparation time by pointing me to specific chapters of other helpful books from Hentzenwerke Publishing and other publishers as well as to various articles and URLs at Microsoft's web site.

If you would like to pass the MCP exam the first time (and save money by not having to re-take the exam), buy and read this book now!

This book goes over the topics that you need to know for certification in a straight forward manner. Your level of knowledge will determine how much of the suggested 'further reading' you will need to do. If you are quite experienced then you should be able to pass by just reading this book (and maybe brush up on VSS). There isn't much else out there to use as a study guide, so it makes this book that much more valuable.

For anyone who wants to take the Visual FoxPro certification exams, there are scant few resources available that are specifcally targeted to helping you pass the exams. No Transacender. No Exam Cram. Thats what makes this book so valuable. The book is a study guide. It will give you a overview of the main topics that are covered on the exams an give you references to where you can learn more. You will have to supplement this book by researching the references and using your experience. The dicussions on normalization and debugging apps were particularly good. In all, there is a huge void for anyone studying for VFP certification which this book helps fill.

Extremely short on content, with a mere 159 pages. The sample questions are a joke. Often, it is impossible to know the answer from reading the previous chapter. No topic is covered with any depth whatsoever. I'm really left scratching my head and wondering why the author even bothered. At the end of each chapter the author suggests other books that you can read to gain greater insight. Save your self the aggravation, just get and read those books in the first place. Most of them are from the same publisher which, with this single exception, produces excellent books on Visual Foxpro. I recommend "Effective Techniques..." which will do more to help you pass the exams than this book.