Mike said
The live exam is painful (I used up the entire 3 hours). I used this book as my main study guide. I also went through the accompanying sample test several times. I would also recommend going through (at least skimming) the Pro WPF book (MacDonald) before actually taking the test. The Pro book covers some details not mentioned in this study guide. Note that the actual exam questions are much harder than the sample questions in this book and sample test engine.
Igor Basmanov said
For delivery of the exam(70-502) - an excellent book. By means of this books well to begin work with WPF, text of this book is written understandable and simply. In the future possible use and other literature (MSDN,APress,MSPress)
I. Singh said
I just passed the 70-502 certification exam, though this book was not the only source for my preparation but I found to be very helpful in getting my certification. In addition to reading this book and practicing the provided sample tests I also read Programming WPF by Chris Sells and took Transcender practice tests.
The thing I liked the most about this book is that I found it to be very readable, each chapter/lesson is small and comes with a nice lab to give you hands-on experience with the topic covered. I have read some of the other Self-Paced Training Kits and would rate this higher than the others. I read Programming WPF by Chris Sells before going through this book and found that this book to be very well-written, it succinctly explains concepts which were very hard to grasp from pages of text in the other book. My impression here might be a slightly incorrect because I was going through the topics second time and hence it might be more natural to understand things a little better.
The practice exams with the book are good but the real questions in the exam were much harder than these sample tests so I would recommend using some more practice tests unless you have real world experience in using WPF.
I have a good computer science background and have been working as a Software Consultant for years, since I haven't gotten a chance to use WPF on a real project my intention was to get the certification on my resume and demonstrate to the prospective client that I am capable of programming WPF. Real project experience cannot be replaced with a certification but now after going through preparation material and passing the exam I am very confident that I have enough understanding of the technology to use it on a real project.
I would highly recommend this book for anybody going for Exam 70-502 certification.
Luis Rojas Mendez said
Good book for understanding the basics of everything about XAML. Should have more on data templates since it is an important topic on this certification examn.
Riccardo Audano said
This book is actually a gentle hands on tutorial on the basics of WPF with the added bonus of review questions at the end of each chapter and in exam simulation software that comes with the book. I don't know how tough the real exam is, I can only tell you this text covers only the very basics of WPF, and I would be surprised if this was enough to pass a certification exam.. Even having absorbed everything in this book, you would still be at the level of a rookie, far from the mastery level required from a certified professional.
But still, I would recommend this book to any developer who 's totally new to WPF and loves learning by doing labs. Also a decent book for teaching an introductory WPF class. I just wish it has some advanced material on design of professional looking GUIs.
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