Has anyone get experience of both MeasureUp *and* Transcender practice tests for Microsoft certification

Question

I am in the process of trying to lean .net 3 well, I have found in the past that taking the Microsoft Exams is a good way of gilding (and motivating my learning). There has been a few questions about Microsoft Exams on Stackoverflow recently:

• Is worth it to get MS Certified?
• Is the MeasureUp practice test easier or harder than the actual test?
• Are MCTS certifications worth the bother?

I have always used Transcender practice tests in the past other people have always used MeasureUp practice tests.

However has anyone had experience of both of them?

(This is not a question about the worth of certification, that is covered on other StackOverflow questions)

Before closing this as a programming question, remember we are talking about exams on programming frameworks and are taken by programmers trying to improve (or prove) their skill.

Results so far:

So far I have discovered that the Transcender demo is not signed so Vista does not like it. It is very poor that Transcender has not tested their mass-market software on Vista and sorted out miner details like this.

The Transcender demo also crashed the first time I run it, however the 2nd time I run it seemed to work ok.

The MeasureUp demo is web bases, so I can’t see what the down loaded exam is like. The on-line practice exams are time limited, this concerns me with bundles and the fact I am going on holiday soon so may not complete with all the exams within the time limit.

The Explanation on the MeasureUp demo do not seem as clear as they are on the Transcender Demo and some of the MeasureUp questions are not as clear as I recall real Microsoft questions to be.

Overall, I felt I leaned more using the Transcender demo then the MeasureUp demo.

What are other peoples experience?

Also what do peole think of pass4sure and SelfTestSoftware

Answer 1

I'm running trascender in Vista. Well, this is not completely true. I'm running it in Windows XP, mounted in a virtual machine in Vista. The software is worth enough to do this.

Bad point for Trascender makers not to do it totally compatible with Vista. A great quality product in any other features.

Answer 2

I used both to study for one of my exams. Personaly I do prefer Transcender because I think that their explanations are much better.

In addition you should have a look at selftestsoftware.com. Like Transcender, Selftestsoftware is a procuct from Kaplan IT. They seem to have similar contents, but selftestsoftware is a little bit cheaper than transcender.