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Title: Dreamweaver MX Developer Certification Study Guide by Marc Campbell ISBN: 0072223707 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6
Rating: 2
Summary: not enough
Comment: As others have already mentioned, this book has many strange errors that occur mostly on the end-of-chapter quizzes.
I've read this book cover to cover and have taken the certification test and passed with an 85%, and it did help, but it was also very misleading. This book stresses that you should be able to visualize and know multiple ways to complete each task in dreamweaver's interface-There were no questions like this on the test. All questions regarding dreamweavers functions asked "how?" and "what?" they do, or when you would use them, NOT where they are located.
This book doesn't completely prepare you for this test. I would estimate that about 50% percent of it required well rounded knowledge of web development such as particular CSS properties, SSIs, HTML tags, POST and GET methods, entity syntax-this stuff is hardly mentioned in the book. If I had relied only on this book and had no other knowledge of web development, I would have failed. A friend of mine who also read the book cover to cover failed the test because of a lack of knowledge in the fundamentals.
If you use only this book to prepare for the exam, you will only have half the knowledge you need to pass. Since this is supposed to be a prep for the exam, I think this is inexcusable.
Good luck!
Rating: 4
Summary: Decently Helpful
Comment: I just took the test today and scored 89% to my suprise. 100% on Section I, 93% on Section II, and 75% on Section III of the Macromedia study guide. The book does help, but more so by going through the 'experience' of completing the chapters. Also read everyone else's reviews for this book for more helpful tips( e.g HTML & CSS cheat sheets at Web Monkey). Don't spend too much time on memorizing how to navigate around the IDE like the books says... very few questions on that. My tips too you: Experiment, and make sure you know the fundamentals ( even the little things you overlook ). Also as obvious as it may sound, use your common sense, if the answer doesn't sound right it probably isn't. The questions are pretty short and too the point, the answers can be tricky though. Good Luck! ...
Rating: 4
Summary: A comprehensive and generally accurate test prep book
Comment: I had been warned that the Dreamweaver MX exam was tough, and this guide, weighing in at more than 600 pages, did nothing to alleviate my anxiety. However, I attacked it systematically, chapter by chapter, and as a result passed the test with a very good score.
Like many Dreamweaver users I make heavy use of a few well-known features. This book revealed a huge number of tricks, tips and obscure features I never knew about and definitely plan to use. The sample questions were fair, although they were more ambiguous and inteface-oriented than the actual test questions (thank goodness). If you take the exam, make sure you know the *actual* code and standards as well as the Dreamweaver way of doing things.
A few criticisms: the book could have used one more copy-editing pass, as there were errors in the test answers and even a few in the "Exam Watch" tips that are supposed to give you a heads up on nasty exam tricks. The CD was disappointing, since it contained only one exam (the downloadable second exam appears to be on DW/Flash integration) with questions that are drawn directly from the book. It is mainly a promo for LearnKey online training.
There are many excellent Dreamweaver books available, but this one has the advantage of hewing closely to the exam syllabus, and the results (in my case) speak for themselves.
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Title: Certified Macromedia Flash MX Developer Study Guide by John Elstad, Neeld Tanksley, Luke Bayes ISBN: 0321157303 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 23 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Certified Macromedia Flash MX Designer Study Guide by Christopher Hayes ISBN: 0321126955 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 21 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit, Fifth Edition by Ben Forta, Nate Weiss, Leon Chalnick, Angela C. Buraglia ISBN: 0321125169 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 23 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: Dreamweaver MX Magic by Brad Halstead, Josh Cavalier, Linda Rathgeber, David Nicholls, Joyce J. Evans, Donna Casey, Jason Cranford Teague, Zac Van Note, Alwyn Joy, Matthew David ISBN: 0735711798 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Certified Macromedia ColdFusion MX Developer Study Guide by Ben Forta ISBN: 0321180585 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 17 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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