Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

I delayed my review of the book until I took the 70-486 exam. I just took the exam, passed, and feel strongly that I could not have done it without the help of this book serving as a guide. I also believe that I would not have passed if I had relied solely on this book. I used this book in conjunction with Pro ASP.NET 4 from Apress and also supplemented with Pluralsight videos to fill in gaps with how things worked together.

I had already been programming with ASP.NET MVC 2,3, & 4 before taking this exam. I bought the book as a reinforcement to make sure I didn't miss anything. The book provides a very general and overall picture of MVC 4 features and best practices. I think it's missing some code examples that go along with the theory, but the best thing to do is follow along and implement the features that the book is talking about.

It's a reference. It gave some decent starting points to go off and find some training via Pluralsight. I studied for the 70-480 via the "Training Guide" series and found that to be more comprehensive in terms of preparing for what you see on the exams. I'd like to see this book plus about 50 additional pages of code examples and that would be truly useful for the exams.

I am currently reading this book but one negative is this book needs to be updated with the added subtasks that Microsoft has added to the exam. Over all so far It is a good overview for an experienced web developer and will be supplementing it with Plural Sight videos and other books to fill in the gaps.

This book is ok, but honestly, I studied it well and yet I failed the exam. Yes, the fail was my fault and I will probably do ok when I re-take it, but I just felt that for an MS-branded exam prep, this book did not adequately prepare for the test enough.The MS exams are full of questions that amount to "here are 6 options, NONE OF WHICH you would actually want to choose in real life, pick one,m two or three of the least sucky options" and full of double-triple negative tricksies that have nothing much to do with your knowledge of the material, and this book's lessons / coverage only briefly covered areas that the test seemed to really drill in on, yet the book devoted huge amounts of pages to subjects that were barely touched in the exam.I think that really was my biggest disappointment - the book is about ASP.NET with MVC 4 and it covers the topic well enough , but it's an EXAM PREP guide, and the amount of time/pages devoted to an area in the book did not correlate with how much of that topic was actively being tested... I don't want to say too much about the exam, but I will say that you might want to study for the Azure exam in this series BEFORE taking the 70-486 exam... because only with studying both are you going to not struggle with this exam if you only study this book.

Because I want to pass the exams of Microsoft I was looking for this book, all sold out / undeliverable, until I found this copy. The item was sold as "Condition: Used - Good - This book has been read and may show wear to the cover and or pages.". When I received the book I was quite surprised of the excellent quality of it. It looks like new, no wear or markings in the book. Very happy with it!

This item is helpful for exam preparation but not sufficient.I'm glad that it doesn't have many code and explain topics on higher level. Book has few bugs e.g question 3.5.2 has duplicated options to answer and there wasn't direct link to answer for specific question, you are always redirected to begining of answers section.

It's a comprehensive take on what you need to know to pass the exam. However, much of it is very high-level. Things like "URL Helpers" will be mentioned once, in passing, leaving the reader to flesh out the details. And "go figure out what URL Helpers are and how they're made / used" is a pretty big homework assignment. What the authors should have done is to focus on the topics that actually tend to get asked about on the exam. However, Microsoft seems not to have allowed this; I believe the authors even allude to this early on in the book.

While this book is great to learn from it is very out of date (2012) for the exam which has now been updated (2018), most major difference is the exam is now 6 sections where this book is only 5 chapters. I'd still recommend getting it for those preparing for the exam but only as intial study, use practice exam questions and Microsoft documention for more up to date reference.

Using nothing but the material in this book, it is possible to pass exam 70-486 (I have done so today).There was really only a single problem I had with the book: there are relatively few code examples, but the information contained in the examples is extremely important. You'll want to take note of the syntax used in all of the example code and make sure you understand it completely (and, similarly, that you'd be able to identify if something did not adhere to this syntax).The book is split into precisely the objectives that appear on the exam, and the example questions it gives in its objective reviews are extremely similar in tone and content ot the question on the exam.in short, this book isn't a holistic overview of ASP.NET MVC 4 nor does it pretend to be - it's a fairly unforgiving but ultimately complete guide to the exam. Don't scan through it, study it closely and it'll give you everything you need to pass.

this book is useless for the exam, I studied it for months and was surprise of how different the questions actually are in the real exam, I hate the idea of don't have a reliable source to study for this exam, but the only way is look for information everywhere you can, practise and hope for the best but the questions are not based on this book, you can be sure of that

Different approach than I first thought but it is definitely worth reading. It is not enough for the exam though.

Great book, very well written and useful even if you're not doing the exam.