Not enough coverage of VSS or the PDW
On both of the exams for Visual Basic 6.0, there are numerous questions about Visual SourceSafe and the Package and Deployment Wizard. You will need to have a through understanding of these in order to pass the exam. This book gives the basics but does not go in to great detail on these subjects. I would recommend James D. Foxall's "MCSD in a Nutshell" and the Transcender courses if you are really serious about your certification. Visual Basic 6.0 is still the main development environment at many companies. You want the best training and education you can get. This book is about average. This book is OK if you use it as a supplemental book to the other study guides.
Could be, but not enough
Well, this book is really oriented on the topics of the 70-175 exam but it just go quickly over the themes without going to deep in the matter. It could be good for a fast review if all the topics but YOU REALLY NEED ADITIONAL SOURCES. You can not miss the official training course from Microsoft. If you have passed the 70-176, then with the course materials and this book you would do Ok.
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Most of this book is the same as the MCSD Fast Track VB 6 book for the other exam (70-176). There is some useful information, but most of it is a cursory look.These two books should have been put together into one book and made better. If you buy both, you've been had.
It's perfectly good...if you know VB.
This book is exactly what it claims to be. A quick guide to what you need to know for the 175 exam. It won't tell you how to program, it assumes you know that already (hence for EXPERIENCED candidates) and it certainly won't give you questions from the exam (there are in fact, no questions in this book from the exam) but it does give you a basis of what you NEED to know and what you need to understand to pass this exam.I give it a heartly thumbs up as it did exactly what it claimed to do, it helped an experienced candidate pass.
The book is a good resource, but not enough
The book should only be used as an additional review material for the exam. It certainly does not compare to "Exam Cram: VB6 Distributed", but it has some good chapters that are applicable for the exam. Some areas were not covered in enough detail nor they have been explained clearly (i.e MTS security).
