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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Foundation HAR/CDR Edition

by Tony Northrup (Author), Shawn Wildermuth (Author), Bill Ryan (Author)

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Exam Prep Guide

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

Use system types, collections, and generics to help manage data
Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions
Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications
Enhance your application by adding graphics and images
Implement code access security, role-based security, and data encryption
Work with serialization and reflection techniques
Instrument your applications with logging and tracing
Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke

Practice Tests

Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Your kit includes:

15% exam discount from Microsoft. (Limited time offer). Details inside.
Official self-paced study guide.
Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
450 practice and review questions.
Case scenarios and lab exercises.
Code samples on CD.
90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.
Fully searchable eBook.

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0735622779
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978-0735622777
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HAR/CDR
Publisher

Microsoft Press
Publication date

June 5, 2006
Language

English
Dimensions

7.38 x 2.11 x 9 inches
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1088 pages
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Key Book Benefits: - Comprehensive study guide written by exam-certified authors - Deeper, more focused coverage of exam objectives and suobjectivesplus instructive case studies and troubleshooting scenarios to enhance your performance on the job - 300 practice questions on CD, wita test engine that enables customized testing, pre-assessment and post-assessment, and automated scoring and feedback - Complete objective-by-objective review section, plus a tear-out exam-mapping grid - Exam tips based on real-world test experience - 90-day evaluation version of Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - 15 percent exam discount voucher from a leading authorized testing center (limited time offer) - Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, Second Edition, eBook - Practice files on CD - Entire study guide in searchable eBook format

About the Author

Tony Northrup, MCTS, MCSE, CISP, MVP, is a networking consultant and coauthor of Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP).

Bill Ryan is an MVP for Windows Embedded and a frequent speaker at industry events including Microsoft Code Camps and .NET User’s Groups. GrandMasters is an IT consulting firm specializing in content development, exam development, and customized technical support.

I am a Microsoft C# MVP and the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering software and training solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. I am also a speaker on the INEA Speaker's Bureau and have appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. I am the author of the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET", the upcoming "Prescriptive Data Architectures", both for Addison-Wesley as well as co-author of several certification books for Microsoft Press. I have been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel's Rich Client Series. I have enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; HAR/CDR edition (June 5, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1088 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735622779
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735622777
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 2.11 x 9 inches

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Award-winning author & photographer Tony Northrup has published more than 30 educational books. Among other titles, Tony is author of Stunning Digital Photography and Windows 8 Inside Out. As a photographer, Tony's work has been published worldwide on magazine, book, and CD covers, and everywhere from Velveeta to Viagra ads. Tony lives in Waterford, CT with his wife and daughter.
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I currently server as the Director of Analytics/Data Science at Dynamics Four in Atlanta, GA.
I've been a developer for almost 15 years now. I started off programming with C++ writing applications against Oracle v. 7. I focused on C++ for a few years before moving on to mobile device development. I immediately fell in love with distributed computing (DCOM, CORBA) and then .NET. I've spent most of my recent career working on Web Services development and mobile devices. On the Microsoft side, WCF is probably my strongest area.
I started doing Microsoft Dynamics CRM development on the 4.0 platform and have worked with 2011 extensively. CRM development took up a good bit of my time although I've transitioned mostly to Analytics and Data Science in the last year.
If you have any questions or need help with any of the following, please feel free to let me know:
-Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
-Workflow Foundation (WF)
-Windows Azure
-Windows Phone
-SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services
-Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Development.
-Python
-R
-CouchDB, MongoDB
I live in Greenville, SC with my wife and daughter . I'm a major animal lover, have several dogs and have a veritable bird sanctuary in my back yard (it's not uncommon to see over 40 Robins in one of our trees on a given day). I also love cars, fast ones and high performance driving.
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Shawn Wildermuth is a nine-time Microsoft MVP, member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of seven books and dozens of articles on software development. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and ASP.NET Insider. He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, VSLive, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach, DevConnections and DevReach. He is one of the Wilder Minds at http://wilderminds.com. He can also be reached via his blog at http://wildermuth.com.
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I cannot explain the degree to which this book frustrated me, but after a bit of thought I've given it a rating of 3. That reflects the fact that I did pass the exam using this as my primary reference. But in my opinion it is a pity that as far as I know it is the only book specifically geared towards the exam, because I just couldn't get enthused about it.

Ok, to be fair to the authors there are certain givens when studying for an exam. I never did expect a book that prepares for an exam to be a "quick fix" for one's own lack of knowledge. A fair degree of .NET experience is an assumption before attempting it. But what bewildered me was that in places it seemed to make relatively simple concepts seem confusing, which is the last thing one would expect. And often the specific detail likely to be encountered in an exam seemed to be almost obscured rather than emphasised.

If it wasn't for the fact that it does, I suppose, expose one to the requirements of the exam I wouldn't even contemplate bothering with the book. Something like the WROX C# 2008 book would win hands-down for actual content, though it does not necessarily cover the 70-536 criteria fully (but is a far superior and more in depth examination of most of the topics you'd need).

A plus is that the sample test questions (unlike the ones at the end of each lesson) did seem to me to be reasonably similar in difficulty to those in the actual exam. I personally used them near the end as a way to identify weaknesses, and to some extent cram.

I believe that the second edition has corrected the unbelievable morass of errata, but to me there was a bit more wrong with this book than that. It just isn't well written.

To summarize, I found it difficult to rate this book. It's the book I reluctantly admit helped me pass the exam in the absence of anything else similar.

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2006

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I'll state it plain and simple : this book got me my 070-536 exam.

It is an invaluable tool, simply by the fact that it lists all the topics that come at the exam in one convenient place. Learning from the MSDN documentation alone is impossible. You need a plan that delimits what is to learn for the exam and not.

There are a few typos and such, but it is never 'blocking'. One must always read "actively"; having to keep a sharp eye helps memorizing the content! ;)

CONS :

- There are not a lot of questions at the end of the chapters to test oneself. But it is sometimes sufficient to notice that some chapters have not been understood correctly. There are more questions on the CD though.

- A few topics are poorly explained. More schemas and diagrams and explanations required (the part on evidences in the application domain chapter). But at least the book lists what is to learn. What is not clear enough can be found on msdn or with google, until you find an explanation that "clicks" with you.

PROS :

- In one book, all the topics that you need to cover for the exam

- 15% voucher

- Some chapters are above the others in terms of pedagogy (Configuration Management)

- CD with self-test program (+explanations), very useful.

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James D. Peckham

Great as a book not just a study guide

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2006

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Places where this book is "weak" is where YOU as a reader need to learn how to use MSDN and look it up yourself. The point of the book is to quickly run you through what is going to be covered on the test... NOT to give you a hand holding through the numerous topics covered in a short amount of pages. Yes theres chapters that could use elaboration for me personally... but this book's job is not to go indepth, that is the point of the MANY other books referred to by the microsoft learning site. Each test has requisite books and then a training kit book. If you didn't read the whole C# or VB language book before you read this, then you can't complain when it doesn't hold your hand.

edit: having now passed the 70-536 on my first try, even though i put this book down for several months and picked it back up again is a testament to how good it does it's job. So long as YOU, the reader, do all of the examples, lookup each object on msdn and thoroughly research them, and run through the practice tests and study tests multiple times.

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B. Goldstein

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2006

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I took the exam today....and....passed. Phew! This is one VERY tough exam to study for. I spent about 200 hours preparing for this exam. The exam is very broad and very deep. I bought this book and used the Transcender.

The book was poorly edited and had mistakes that which stated certain "facts" that turned out to be outright wrong. The book itself barely gets you going for the material you'll need to know. I admit that the 302 test questions were helpful, though. When you start taking some of those sample tests, you'll realize how quickly the book material was lacking. The Transcender really helped cover a lot of other ground that this book didn't. Oddly enough, the test still pulled some punches on material that was covered in neither, unless you plan to go very deep on every topic which is next to impossible.

This book might be the only reasonable paper resource out there, especially with the test questions, so just be forewarned....be careful...and you'll have to study deeper than you might expect in various areas.

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its a book

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Serial H.

parfait

Reviewed in France on April 23, 2007

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Ouvrage de bonne qualité, clair.

De très légères notions de C# ou de VB sont requises mais rien de plus.

A la fin de chaque chapitre, il y a des "Labs", c'est à dire des exemples concrets qui permettent de bien comprendre les notions abordés.

On ne vous demandera pas à l'exam quelque chose qui n'est pas dans le bouquin.

Idéal pour passer la certif.

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