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MCAD/MCSE/MCDBA 70-229 Exam Cram 2: Designing & Implementing Databases w/SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
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The MCAD/MCSE/MCDBA 70-229 Exam Cram 2: Designing & Implementing Databases with SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition covers exactly what you need to know to pass the 70-229 exam. It is the ideal refresher that ensures readers cover the essentials and the ultimate complement guide for larger training guides, instructor-led classes or CBT training. This comprehensive reference guide also comes with the popular “Cram Sheet” tear card for your last minute cram sessions… More >>
5 comments
I previously studied and aced the 70-228 exam and obtained a wealth of information from ‘Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed’ (ISBN 0672324679). It had enough information for both that exam and this exam. I’ve never used an Exam Cram book before and have to say I was disappointed. While it occasionally passed on some specific info, it was more like a guide that tells you a topic is important and that you should study it! If you want to learn and understand how/why you are to do something, this book doesn’t cut it. If you want a guide to give you a few quick facts and then tells you to study other materials, then this guide is fine. I was expecting something along the lines of a concise listing of what you needed to know without delving into non-exam topics (which was fine by me after reading the exhausting 1500 book I mentioned above); but, this is anything but concise.
Rating: 2 / 5
A good review book explains all the topics in a consise fasion this book does explain the topics that well is a bit disorganized and has topics missing. There are better review books out the for SQL 2K
Rating: 3 / 5
The content provided by the book was great. Unfortunately my main reason for buying it was the accompanying MeasureUP practice test. The publisher should have definitely chosen a different vendor for the practice test. The MeasureUP exam utility is so poorly designed that unless you are running default regional settings it will not be able to provide a timer or a score. I had my PC set to use 24 hour (military) time instead of AM/PM. This one minor setting caused their application to die. Anyone who has ever written a single line of Visual Basic® code knows that you should always format the incoming dates and times. To trust that every PC in the world has the same regional setting is foolish. If you like using practice exams for Microsoft® products that would not even make it through first round of testing at Microsoft®, then buy this book. Otherwise, we should strongly encourage the publisher to choose a better practice test vendor.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is a good, general introduction to the 70-229 exam concepts – but I had to couple it with the Transcender practice exam before I felt comfortable taking the exam. The exam topics are so broad that the book doesn’t do enough to emphasize when to use what. It also skips some important topics (sp_cursoropen) and its practice tests include Full Text Searches which the book notes are unlikely to be on the exam. To the editors: A ‘databases’ index entry with three pages of sub-entries is redundant in a book about databases. I love the Exam Cram series, but this was the poorest book of the bunch.
Rating: 3 / 5
If you have several years experience with MS SQL 2000 you may be able to pass the 70-229 with this book only. A great way to measure your readiness is by taking the test that comes included in the CD. If you pass it with an 85 or above, I’ll say you’re ready. If you don’t, this book should be enough to prepare you for the test.
I also discovered that this book is a compressed regurgitation of the “MCSE SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementation Training Guide” (ISBN 0789729970) written by the same author a few years earlier. I definitely recommend the Exam Cram 2 instead of the one mentioned in this paragraph.
One thing I found very interesting is that the questions in the CD are extremely similar to the ones in the actual test. It will definitely give you a good sense of what the test is going to be like. Make sure you pass 3 practice tests with 85 or above before you go and take the real test.
Good luck!
Rating: 4 / 5
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