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Summary: Buy it if you have no other books to study for the exam
Review: Although the book features many sample questions and a CD that contains 2 exams (exam questions are same from the book, 1 additional exam you can download later), you need to have extensible prior experience in Dreamweaver and web development in order to pass the exam comfortably.If you are a newcomer to webdev, shop some more and read more reviews. I just took the exam this morning and passed it, I found the new DWMX exam much more challenging than DW4 exam that I took in last July. If you take the exam, make sure you become VERY comfortable with DWMX assets and library, CSS. I found several editorial errors in the book and tests on the CD, but they were not serious to miseducate you. Overall, the book covers DWMX adequately, and teaches you the basics of web development. But I do not think the book can alone guarantee you to pass the exam, there a lot of learning involved to master the MX. The book teaches how things supposed to be in DW, but the exam will ask circumstances where things went wrong and you need to be able to troubleshoot them. Best of luck on your exam!!!
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Summary: not enough
Review: 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!
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Summary: A comprehensive and generally accurate test prep book
Review: 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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Summary: A Complete guide with a few mistakes
Review: I had taken many tips from this site regarding this book but no book in the market covers all the modules for the exam.So I bought this book and studied it from cover to cover.Yes,the exam was much more challenging and some questions had to be read thrice to understand the language.But Thank God!!! I managed to get the pass the exam but not with a good score i had expected.The exam covers indepth knowledge of HTML,CSS,Javascript and dreamweaver's way of integrating Behaviors.So all those designers,please brush your code and fundamentals and some General knowldege like the IP address of your local web server and about FTP.Lastly,this book covers the entire contents needed for the exam but the mistakes should have been avoided and the CD should have been more useful.But untill anyone releases a book for the certification this study guide by Marc Campbell would serve the purpose.
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Summary: Decently Helpful
Review: 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! ...
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Summary: Good investment for the exam
Review: If you're going spend the time to study and pay the $100 to take the exam, this book is a sensible buy new, and a no-brainer used. I don't know how large the pool of exam questions is, but, unlike some other reviewers, my exam had maybe 10 questions that were mostly about the IDE ("If you're in X mode and you click Y, what happens next?"). I doubt that I would have passed the exam without this book alerting me to these types of questions. There are too many errors in the book's quizzes, but they're not confounding - the answer is given as "C" but the explanation clearly fits "B". Other than that, the book is solid.
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Summary: Prepares You For The Test
Review: This book did an excellent job of preparing me for the test, although the actual test questions were much harder than the chapter review questions given. It covers all the areas on the test and goes more into depth about the actual HTML code than most other Dreamweaver books. With so many high points, it is hard to believe some of the errors that are in this book. Having a wrong answer for a chapter review question is one thing, but having entire answer choices and screenshots missing is inexcusable. This is still the only avaible book specifically for Dreamweaver certificaiton. If your goal is to pass the test, this one is for you.
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Summary: Prepares You For The Test
Review: This book did an excellent job of preparing me for the test, although the actual test questions were much harder than the chapter review questions given. It covers all the areas on the test and goes more into depth about the actual HTML code than most other Dreamweaver books. With so many high points, it is hard to believe some of the errors that are in this book. Having a wrong answer for a chapter review question is one thing, but having entire answer choices and screenshots missing is inexcusable. This is still the only avaible book specifically for Dreamweaver certificaiton. If your goal is to pass the test, this one is for you.
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Summary: Gets the job done
Review: This book does help you prepare for Dreamweaver certification, but it has way too many bizarre errors. I'm wondering if the author wrote half this book from a beta version, because many times features work a little differently than the current version of Dreamweaver. One page near the beginning of the book even has a screenshot that's different from the current Dreamweaver; then later in the book another screenshot of the same dialog box is given, and it matches what's in Dreamweaver -go figure! But at the end of the day, the book proved invaluable in passing the test. This book does not cover everything on the exam, but I don't see how any book could. One note of interest: On the real exam, if a question has more than one answer, the question tells you how many answers should be selected. The questions in the book don't give you that help, so in that way the questions in the book are more difficult.
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Summary: pretty good overview
Review: This book provides a very good overview of the items on the DMX test. I just took this test this morning and with the help of this book scored an 88%. The book focused more on the application and asked some very detailed questions about the interface. I found the test to be more code intensive. Questions about the interface were usually pretty general. You really have to know how to hand-code HTML and CSS, along with a general knowledge of JavaScript code. Like the others have mentioned, this book is full of errata (which the publisher has yet to list corrections for on their site). Also, the book only comes with one computer-based test. If you use this book and the webmonkey HTML and CSS cheatsheets, you should do fine.
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