Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585 EAN: 9780789735881 ISBN: 0789735881 Label: Que Manufacturer: Que Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 456 Publication Date: August 10, 2006 Publisher: Que Sales Rank: 67044 Studio: Que
Product DescriptionThe MCTS 70-431 Exam Cram is a must-have resource in your MCTS 70-431 exam preparation. The Exam Cram focuses on exactly what you need to know to get certified. This includes features like:
Complete coverage of all 70-431 exam objectives
Exam alerts, practice questions, notes, tips, sidebars, cautions, test-taking strategies, and time-saving tips
Access to MeasureUp practice questions and innovative testing software
The popular Cram Sheet tear card, giving you the key facts you should review before you enter the testing center
Insight from author Thomas Moore, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and SQL Server expert who has helped hundreds of students earn their SQL Server certifications
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Study Guide Only!!!!
After reading this book, I felt it was lacking in details and possibly had more than a few errors. Although it is a study guide, with some good challenging practice questions, I can not help but emphasize for a few dollars more you could get a better study guide that would be far more useful and prepare you better.
Rating: - Average Study Guide
I would recommend using this book in conjunction with Microsoft 70-431 preparation guide and Measure UP's or Self Test Software's preperation and practice tests. Its hard to pass SQL 2005 depending only on this book (unless you have some experience working with SQL 2005). Good for quick final review before exam too.
Rating: - Aimed to be a 5 stars. Got 4.
I've been using ExamCram since Windows NT 4. :) Not all of them are impressive. This one is the same.
This is a good last book for quickly reviewing the key concepts to pass the exam. If the topics, such as Service Broker, XML, etc, are new to you and you have read the topic else where, you will appreciate how much the author has condense everything to the basic. It reminds me of the "cheat sheet" at work someone showed me.
Don't get me wrong this is NOT the only book ... Read More
Rating: - Concise exam preparation...only...
As mentioned in previous reviews, this book is purely an exam preparation guide. If you are planning on sitting the 70-431 exam, this book is a worthwhile resource. It ignores irrelevant (non-exam) material and contains a few sample test questions extremely similar to ones found in the actual exam (which is what you're after).
If you are planning on becoming a proficient SQL Server DBA, you will need to look elsewhere. However, for what it is intended to achieve, I give it 4 stars!
Rating: - Good Starting Point
This book was a good starting point, but I wouldn't suggest taking the exam after only studying it. I don't know what exam the author took, but there was a lot of stuff on mine that wasn't even alluded to in this book.
I've been a SQL Server programmer/admin for 10 years, so I went into this thinking my knowledge would just need a little brushing up. Breezed through the book and the sample tests and thought "This is going to be easy!" Wrong!
- Study Guide Only!!!!
- Aimed to be a 5 stars. Got 4.
