Exam 98-375 HTML5 Application Development Fundamentals

This book was intended to be used as a student book as part of a course. As the MTA is now available to self-learners (such as myself), this book has major flaws as a tool of self-instruction and could use a revision.Each of the ten chapters concludes with a set of practice questions ranging from very obvious to obscure. The problem, however, is that as this was a book intended for the classroom there is no answer key provided, neither in the book nor (to my knowledge) on the web. Hence, while you can complete the questions, there is no way to check the accuracy of your work.The book also contains a key code to take practice tests on the gmetrix.net website. You will need to run the program in Internet Explorer (boo). The questions differ somewhat from the content in the book.Finally, when you take the MTA, expect the questions to be on fairly esoteric concepts either briefly mentioned or not covered at all in the book (better learn the meaning of the ins tag for instance).I'm not entirely thrilled with either the content or the price of this book. It will give you a general idea of what to expect on the exam, just don't expect it to cover everything like it should. I did pass the exam, but this book could have been written much better. Also, if you want to gain actual skills in web design, there are numerous youtube tutorials (thenewboston) far more useful than this book. As of now (August 2013), this is the only detailed book on the market though, so you're pretty much stuck buying this if you want to take the 98-375.

It provides good material,but I wouldn't pay over $20 for it. I feel like,I waste my money...the practice test questions that comes with the book is good.However it seems as though it doesn't work anymore. Overall this is kind of garbage,but this has very little study material so anything helps...

It uses outdated examples that don't work in the current HTML5. It is printed on very thin paper - doesn't stand up to any use.If you have another option I would say take it - this was not worth the $55+ I paid for it. If it was like $18 - maybe - but still has outdated examples that don't work.

This is the 4th Wiley Microsoft Official Academic Course book I have read.I enjoy studying this book. Approximately 250 pages of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript materialrelated to the MTA Certification exam 98-375. I again think that this book is very useful for learning the material.You may be able to pass to exam by studying this book. But I think that other resources will be helpful.I was able to pass the exam May 2014 using this book for the majority of my study.

Love it

this book is very good to prepare for the exam. if you are preparing for the exam use this book with Microsoft virtual academy free training :Preparing for Exam MTA 98-375 HTML5 App Development Fundamentals, with Cullen White.. go to: microsoftvirtualacademy.com register and look for the training.

Contacted Wiley to get access to answer key that is located at the end of each chapter. I was refused. Seeing as this is a major part of the "usefulness" of this book I was very disappointed to see this. I would not recommend this to anyone learning that is not absolutely required to buy this by a professor.

Very helpful for studying for the HTML5 certification but don’t solely use the book seek out video tutorials and hands on labs to fully grasp concepts.

Book is very elaborate. The exercises are so good that they give you a thorough revision of the sessions and make you feel confident and move further.

I just wrote and passed the MTA 98-375 exam. The majority of my study material was from this textbook and the links provided within, but I also followed the suggestions for additional study material on the 98-375 page (Microsoft Virtual Academy, WikiVersity, etc). I highly recommend this book as a foundation for anyone preparing for the exam; but as other posters have mentioned, it shouldn't be the only source. I agree with the criticism regarding the answer key not being provided as the confirmation of correct answers would have been extremely helpful. As for the obsolete content, I didn't encounter anything that wasn't easily resolved by searching a little bit, which is fairly typical for most technology that constantly evolves.

Very good book. The topics are well explained and it has many example which helps the reader understand the code.