Preparing for the MCSD Visual Basic Exams - Chat Transcript
Speaker: James Foxall, vice president of Omaha, Nebraska-based Tigerpaw Software and author of "MCSD in a Nutshell: The Visual Basic Exams"
Moderator: Brent Sheets, Site Editor, SearchVB.com and SearchXMLresources.com

MCSD - Working with Data. Free online chapter on ADO from the book "MCSD in a Nutshell: The Visual Basic Exams".

My Complete Study Notes for 70-176 These are the notes that I prepared for the exam, contains important points and is quite exhaustive in nature.Would be useful as a reference-index and last-minute cramming(especially if you have the MCSD book by Hawhee).

70-176 Preparation Guide From Cramsession, pretty good. Notes for other exams as well.

MCP Program Website Latest info on MCP certification

MCP Magazine All kinds of info for existing and wannabe MCPs

MCSD Homepage Microsoft's MCSD Page

Good MCSD faq Frequently asked questions on the new track

SearchVB Good VB certification resource.

Taha's Site Guy aiming for MCSD, useful for people in India or Pak. Some useful second-hand stuff also is there - like Transcenders.

MCSD Search Engine Exclusively for the Microsoft exams.

MCSD Certification Help Very good links for certification and also a weekly book giveaway for people in US.

PassMCSD.com Focus on the VB exams.

CertExpress.com Good site with focus on the VB exams.

MissionMCSD Mission Possible. Head there right now.

VC++/MFC Track:

ATL Gurus Recently come up, with study-notes and other free stuff. Really good for the VC++ route.

BitBuilder MCSD/MCP preparation with focus on VC++ and MFC. Bit out-of-date, I think!

Online Books/References:

MSDN Online Complete and exhaustive reference information for all the Microsoft exams. Search hard and you're sure to get what you're looking for.

Informit.com Lot of reference books online, for Free!!!

ADSA Book FREE online book for the 70-100 core exam. Download it NOW before it disappears!!!

Online Exams:

Brainbench Lots of FREE online exams, and get e-Certified as well.

Transcender Very good exam-prep software, bit expensive though.Also has FREE sample exams and Flash Cards, gives a feel for the real thing.

Measureup Sample exams (with less questions) for FREE.

Certportal More FREE exams.

4Tests and more FREE exams.

Veriworld and some more FREE exams

MCSD Newsgroups - go to deja.com to access Usenet