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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent exam prep, even when upgrading
By Michael J. Mcmahon Jr.
Having completed the Microsoft ASP.NET exam for .NET 3.5, I was eagerly awaiting the release of this book so that I could take the latest version of the exam. I was pleased to find that I could read this book (either via the Kindle edition, the PDF that comes with the book, or via the O'Reilly download) on my Kindle. Bear in mind, however, that the supplemental content that you can download from O'Reilly or Amazon (via O'Reilly) doe snot contain the practice exams. Those exams are only available withthe printed version on the CD - at least, as of the writing of this review.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Not a bad book topics not equally covered
By New To Real World Programming
I took the test once prior to the book coming out, studying on my own based on the information microsoft learning provides about what will be covered. I did not pass so I decided to wait for the book to come out. I have not read everything in the book yet and while I do believe it may be helpful I am disappointed in the fact that all the topics on the exam are not given equal weight in the book. My particular concern is with jQuery as I know that was a bit of a trip up for me when taking the exam and only one section of one chapter touches on jQuery. If you look at the begining of the book it lays out what sections of the exam are covered by different sections of the book when you look at how many pages are associated with specific topics the page number disparity is obvious.
Developing Web Forms Pages - 19% of the exam 161 pages
Developing and Using Web Forms Controls - 18% of the exam 183 pages
Implementing Client-Side Scripting and AJAX - 16% of the exam 91 pages
Configuring and Extending a Web Application - 15% of the exam 204 pages
Displaying and Manipulating Data - 19% of the exam 198 pages
Developing a Web Application by Using ASP.NET MVC 2 - 13% of the exam 45 pages

Admitadly some sections of the book cover multiple sections of the test so this is not a 1-1 page count this is just page count based off the test section to book section table listed at the front of the book.

To me it appears that the book very much underserves those who need to learn the Client-Side Scripting aspect or the MVC aspect of the test.

I am not unhappy with this product as I believe I will be well served but I may still need to purchase another book to get my jQuery skills up to par. If you are looking at purchasing this book to give you at least minimal coverage of all the topics on the exam than this is a good book. If you need it for some very specific skillsets you might be best served by checking the sample Kindle version and verifying by the table of contents that what you need will be thouroughly covered.

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