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Summary: Terrible!
Review: I've never come across a study-book so crammed with mistakes and contradictions. Check out the Admin Guide for Citrix XP, and Citrix' own Skills Update book, but not this piece of junk!
Buy this book if you want to be confused.
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Summary: Decent till the last few chapters, cd quite bad
Review: In the process of reading it to prep for my certification test, I found multiple problems with it. You can still pass using this book, but the experience will not be pleasing.I'll list them as best I can. --Different chapters list different minimum requirements (DOS3.3 vs DOS4.0) for the same module. --The last few chapters of the book have multiple errors in the self-test answer keys. They are obvious things like Right- A, C, D and Wrong- A, C, D or their descriptions a few pages back contradict the answers. At least one of the electronic practice test questions is the same way. --After a few runs through the electronic practice test, it's painfully obvious that it is repeating the same questions in the same order every time, not grabbing fresh questions from the question pool for each run or installation. So far their tech support has not replied on this. (original email sent in second week of December) -- The "Update" link provided in the enclosed software (for test 220) takes you to the publisher's web page for test 218. This page shows that there are no updates available, even though the CD came in a book for the next version of the test. I was unable to find any mention of the 220 test on their website. ---- these items are more aesthetic than technical, but contribute ----
---- to the overall dissatisfaction inspired by and in this book ---- --The wording and emphasis of the book does not match up to the actual test questions. --The material covered, both in a chapter and overlapped between chapters is laid out in a stumbling and awkward way. --The "drivetime" audio tracks on the included CD were read by an engineer, not proper audio talent. I found myself subconsciously tuning out the annoying voice. --The quality (tone, volume and clarity) of the audio tracks was not consistent and one was quite bad.
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Summary: Lousy software
Review: The book is good, and the software is almost useless. They claim to have exam updates available on the syngress web site, but the links don't exist. As a matter of fact, a search at syngress.com doesn't even show this book as one they publish. There are only 40 exam questions, which simulates the actual exam, but there's almost no point in retaking the exam because the questions don't change. Some of the answers are wrong as well.
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Summary: This book should be taken off the market
Review: There were many contradictions in this book. I have worked with Citrix for a few years now (thank god for that when i took the test), and there was plenty of things in this book that were just plain wrong. I do not recommend this book as a study guide. While I passed the test (just barely), I probably would have done better if i had not read this book!!
Rating:
Summary: This book should be taken off the market
Review: There were many contradictions in this book. I have worked with Citrix for a few years now (thank god for that when i took the test), and there was plenty of things in this book that were just plain wrong. I do not recommend this book as a study guide. While I passed the test (just barely), I probably would have done better if i had not read this book!!
Rating: 
Summary: An awesome resource
Review: This book covers it all. Together with the exams an learncitrix.com this exam will be easy to pass! I did it...
Rating:
Summary: Just about good enough to claim as a Exam Study Guide
Review: This is the only book on the market which claims it is an exam study guide, and it does cover all the core concepts, it covers enough to just to pass the exam if you are lucky. The exam certainly chooses to test beyond the contents of this book though. Note : To find the extra questions you need to go through the online chapters and at the end of each chapter there is a QUIZ button which gives you the test questions for that chapter. these are the same as what are in the book though. Anyway lets hope more books are published for Metaframe XP.
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Summary: Thorough book and CD is a nice bonus
Review: Wonderful book, although CD could have been more thorough, still, very, very good. And excellent customer support.
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