Ebook: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-561): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5-ADO.NET Application Development: Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5--ADO.NET Application Development (Self-Paced Training Kits

This book is simply inadequate. It's not a good exam prep book. But since it's the Microsoft Press book for the 70-561 exam, people buy it anyway.

Typos and inconsistencies are par for course with rushed-out test prep books, and this one doesn't disappoint. I take away one star for that, but it doesn't detract from the book's usefulness much.

The book loses another star for poor coverage of the entity framework. While the entity framework is covered in detail on the exam, the book gives a high-level overview. The chapter refers to EntitySQL and Linq to Entities, but then fails to cover those topics.

And it loses one more star for the incoherent and dismally inadequate chapter on data synchronization.

I passed the test, but many of the questions on the entity framework and synchronization were on material that was not covered at all in the book. I had to do a lot more "multiple guesswork" than I expected.

I'd only recommend this book if you can't find anything comparable.