Product Description

Most other certification books seek Microsoft approval, meaning they must include at least 50% tutorial material, and cover every objective for every exam, no matter how frivolous or relevant to the actual exam. MCSE Fast Tracks break away from that mold by focusing only on what you really need to know. Targeted to those who know the technology but who don't yet have the certification, MCSE Fast Track: Visual Basic 6, Exam 70-176 features only what the more-experienced candidate needs to know to pass the exams. Each book in the Fast Track series has two parts. Part One contains all the information you need to know about the exam. It uses an easy-to-follow approach to drills you on exam-critical information. Part Two features classroom-tested, instructor-proven review strategies, including Fast Fasts, Hotlists of Exam-Critical Concepts, Sample Test Questions, and the Insider's Spin. MCSE Fast Tracks are your accelerated path to MCSE success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2126251 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-14
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• 300 pages

From the Back Cover

Most other certification books seek Microsoft approval, meaning they must include at least 50% tutorial material, and cover every objective for every exam, no matter how frivolous or relevant to the actual exam. MCSE Fast Tracks break away from that mold by focusing only on what you really need to know. Targeted to those who know the technology but who don't yet have the certification, MCSE Fast Track: Visual Basic 6, Exam 70-176 features only what the more-experienced candidate needs to know to pass the exams. Each book in the Fast Track series has two parts. Part One contains all the information you need to know about the exam. It uses an easy-to-follow approach to drills you on exam-critical information. Part Two features classroom-tested, instructor-proven review strategies, including Fast Fasts, Hotlists of Exam-Critical Concepts, Sample Test Questions, and the Insider's Spin. MCSE Fast Tracks are your accelerated path to MCSE success.

Customer Reviews

Nice and Light ....but
I bought the Fast Track book and the Exam Cram Desktop VB6 books and passed with 785 (needed 714). I think both together were just sufficient to review for the exam (With extensive hands on experience of course) but I wouldn't recommend either on its own. The Fast Track book was nice and light, covering all topics as they were presented in the guide, but didn't go into enough detail in many areas. Whereas the Exam Cram book didn't cover all the topics but went into more detail in important sections. If I had to recomend one over the other I would probably go for the Exam Cram, but the Fast Track makes you feel good so could be a valuable confidence boost (e.g do the sample exam and you think you'll ace the test - unfortunatly the real qustions are much harder)

"Does exactly what it says in the tin"
For goodness sake, all those whingers that expected to buy a book to tell them every minute detail in the exam! The VB exams are about VB EXPERIENCE!! This book goes through all the topics covered in the exam and provides an excellent reminder. I can't recall anything turning up in the exam that wasn't at least referenced in the book, so there were no nasty surprises. The idea is that if you find something covered in the book that you don't know (in my case that was DHTML projects), you go away and find out about it!!!! Don't expect this book to give you all the answers. If you know your stuff, though, it refreshes it nicely. Remember, its a study guide - and not a bad one.

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It is easy to see why this book is such a bargain. It is nothing more than a summarized outline of VB 6, written by coders, not authors. The information is often duplicated, making it unclear. Hierarchical outline topics, subtopics, and detail items are often not distinguishable throughout the book. For example, on page 123 it even lists the term COM component within a table labeled COM components. This ridiculousness continues throughout the book, resulting in one big chaotic nightmare. Note to authors, stick to programming. This pseudocode you've slopped together and tried to pass off as a study guide is an insult to many of the fine IT authors out there that know how to write as well as code.