Thursday 11 January 2007

CramSession Study Guide and the PrepLogic Mega Guide

Ages ago, when I started studying for the 70-270 exam (Windows XP), I joined Cramsession. CramSession are more-or-less resellers for PrepLogic products fronted by a somewhat useful Certification site, which includes 'free' (as in you have to join their mailing list) study guides and (exam-type) 'Question-of-the-day'.

Regrettably, there wasn't a great deal of material on 70-431, or SQL Server 2005 in general, when I visited earlier today. I had previously found the site quite useful for the 70-270 and 70-290 exams. However, if you do sign up, a 49 page Study Guide for 70-431 exam is available.

Closer inspection reveals that the Study Guide is actually a severely edited version of the 124 page PrepLogic MegaGuide for which you would normally pay $34. You can see this clearly if you also download the sample MegaGuide for 70-431 from PrepLogic and compare the first few pages. However, the Study Guide does appear to have all the topic headings such that the two together give you quite a good idea of the contents and depth of the 70-431 MegaGuide, before you part with any cash.