Product Description

This text features: over 300 practice exam questions; special exam watch warnings to identify the hardest questions to answer; interactive CD-ROM tests that link to the electronic text of the book; "How to take a MCSD Exam" section; and special Command Reference for quick syntax/command look up.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1728309 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 767 pages

From the Back Cover
Don't let the real test be your first test! Prepare to pass the MCSD
Visual Basic 6 Desktop Applications Exam while gaining practical
knowledge of Microsoft's Visual Basic technology for on-the-job
success using this comprehensive, 100% curriculum-based training
system. Built on the proven training methodology of Global Knowledge
Network, this complete study guide and CD-ROM package provides expert
test-taking techniques from the company that trains more than 150,000
IT professionals for certification each year. The MCSD Visual Basic 6
Desktop Applications Study Guide covers the topics you need to review
for this MCSD exam including how to: assess the potential impact of
the logical design on performance, maintainability, extensibility, and
availability; install and configure Visual Basic for developing
desktop applications; create an application that adds and deletes
controls at run time; create an application that verifies data entered
by a user at the field level and the form level; create a Visual Basic
client application that uses a COM component; implement error handling
for the user interface in desktop applications; monitor the values of
expressions and variables by using the Debug window; use the package
and deployment wizard to create a setup program that installs a desktop
application, register the COM components, and allows for uninstall;
plan and implement Web-based deployment for a desktop application;
plan and implement floppy disk-based deployment or compact disc-based
deployment for a desktop application.

Customer Reviews

Good exam revision but not a cram session!
Good book with lots of detailed content that helps towards the exam over a 4 week + period - this is not the book to buy if you want to cram before the exam!

Test questions are good and varied, but are not in the style of the exam so would recommend buying the Transcender test if you want to pass first time.

Incomplete guide for Exam 70-176
The guide covers several of the topics covered in the exam fairly well (provided you ignore the typos and other mistakes ). Unfortunately it does NOT cover all the topics. The tests were disappointing as well as they are in a completely different style to the real tests. In case your wondering, this isn't a sob story, I did pass the test first time, but no thanks to this book.

A good book for VB professionals
This book is very good, but only if you already have knowledge of working with VB from a professional point of view. It won't teach you how to program in VB, but will fill in any areas of VB that you don't use in your day to day experiences.

This book was invaluable in bringing me up to scratch with areas of the system that I don't normally use, such as the package and deployment wizard. (I normally use Wise)

Buy this book, but only if you are already comfortable with VB, and are just looking to fill in those problem areas