A clean miss....
This book does not cover the material you will be tested on in exam #70-176. It is a clean miss. If I hadn't signed up for the MeasureUp practice test, I would have flunked solidly. There are points in the book where the correct subjects are covered. But where you need syntax, the book only provides high level verbage. Where you need theory, the book provides syntax. This is true of so much of the book that I feel it fair to say that reading it may have only garnered me two questions on the exam.
Good questions for the 70-176 exam
I just pass the 70-176 exam and this book was the last thing that I read. It helped me enter the atmosfere of the exam but I didn't find any of the questions from the book in the real test. The book is very concise and cover more than the Mastering VB6 from Microsoft. It is not a book for learning becouse it contains almost only questions (and answers).
Falls short of test material
Being an MCT and doing visual basic programming for six years, I was really disappointed in this book. The questions did not relate to the test very well, and it appeared to me that most of the questions were from the old vb5 test. This book should concentrate on test points more than an explaination of visual basic. People buy these books to brush up on test questions not learn vb. If you want a test aid skip this book and hit the transender tests.
Good for review
This book is a good review of what to expect on the test. Do not use it as your only means of studying for the exam or as a means of learning Visual Basic 6. If you are looking for a concise book for the final cram session before your test, use this book.
Won't get you through the test
I'm not an expert at VB, but I have good experience and this book was useful but not enough to get me through the test. Use this book only as a guide as to what to study in detail if you want to pass.
