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Summary: Good review book with lots of examples
Review: Covered are TCP/IP protocol concepts, client-server ports and sockets, routing, DHCP, SNMP, DNS, and IPv6.
The book has lots of examples and output, which are well-explained. At the end of the book are summary and prep tips, a sample exam, and answers.
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Summary: Solaris 8 Network Administrator Certification Training Guide
Review: Excellent publications that take you step-by-step through the Solaris Admin training. A must have!
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Summary: Good Book to pass exam
Review: Found this book good to pass the Solaris 8 network admin certification exam. It is written in a very clear and to-the-point manner so that the reader does not waste his/her time in un-necessary detail and reading unrelated things.BTW, I have seen a review under heading "A superb illustration of mediocrity, February 11, 2002 " about this book. I beleive that the reviewer probably wanted to write this review for some other book because there is no chapter 16 in this book. Also the question mentioned in that review is not related to Network administration at all and is not contained in this book. To me this book is excellent to pass the exam if you have some experience with Solaris.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Great book for exam preparation, or just as a reference. Typos are extremely rare. The sample questions in the book and on the CDROM are accurate--virtually devoid of typos. The CDROM practice test actually works, unlike some others I have used. It has both study mode (you can peek at the answers) and exam mode. After the test, your score is presented graphically, and each question is marked. If I had to pick a bone with this book, it would be that the pages are only half filled up. The text takes up a center section, leaving a wide margin on the outboard sides. This causes lots of code/file samples to wrap unnecessarily with a somewhat annoying arrow icon. On the other hand, the white space makes the text easier to read. The author stresses that you must have experience to pass the test, and he suggests ways to practice specific operations to gain that experience. With a book like this on the market, there should be a glut of Solaris 8 Network Administrators on the streets soon!
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Summary: Good analogies from the real world
Review: I got this book and like it because of authors ability to clarify concepts in an easy to understand way. The author has used analogies from the real world to clarify technical concepts. I like this book!
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Summary: A very good book but does not cover all exam topics.
Review: I have just passed the exam 310-043 today and got passed. I used this book and also the Sun Solaris Certification Exam Practice Web-based course. This book is written in a very clear manner. Each chapter brings up the most essential of the subject without loosing the reader's time with unnecessary details. The software is very usefull because it is a simulation of the actual exam. However if you only rely on this book you cannot pass the exam because it covers only 80% of the subjects.
Here are some missing topics: - At the exam, the terminology direct and indirect routing is used. In this book there is no explanation about them. At least two exam questions were asking about these two different routing methods. - At the exam, there were some questions about what can you do with SMC (Sun Management Center). In this book the word SMC is not mentioned at all. - DNS: there is no explanation how to debug a DNS server except using the nslookup. In SUN answerbook you can read that there are two commands (dig and pkill -INT). This was also a question of the exam. - I wish the chapter 5 (DHCP) was written in a more complete and clear manner. More examples and more detailed explanations would increase the quality of this chapter. There are other topics which were not covered in this book. However, in my opinion this book remains one of the best written books on Solaris Networking currently on the market. You just need another source of information (book or online-course) to pass successfully the exam. Good luck !
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Summary: Not enough detail and not targeted to exam format
Review: I just took and passed this test, so I know what it takes to get it done and this book by itself WILL fail you. The Network administrator exam is not like Sys Admin II in that its thrust in not in the deep and wide details but rather in theory, definitions, and the features and attributes of the tcp/ip protocol stack. Its a high level murky test that requires you know the details the way sun wants to teach them to you and can devine shades of gray in the multiple choice questions. This book falls short in that the exercises are nearly non-existent and the questions at chapter end are very few and do not reinforce the format in which the exam questions are presented.
Finally, the level of detail is misaligned in that there is too little background presented in some areas a too much in others.
Try to augment this books outline by reading a theory book on TCP/IP and actually spend time building DNS, ntp, dhcp servers and clients so that you have crisp, real-world experience in these areas. Finally, it would do you no harm to borrow the Sun Network Management Coarse book from a friend to further hone your test taking skills.
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Summary: Got The Job Done
Review: I used this book as my primary study reference and passed. Overall, I found this study guide useful, accurate, and reasonably complete, although the answers to the questions at the end of each chapter were incomplete. As always, it helps to combine practice exams with study material. The practice exams on the CD were OK, although I thought the Boson tests were better. If you are going after your Solaris 8 certs, it'll get the job done.
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Summary: fast facts pages 386 - 416 were enough to pass the exam
Review: if you can just read the fast facts pages and be ready for the exam than you would probably be the experienced sysadmin which SUN aims at with the scna exam. this book covers all the exam objectives well enough to prepare you for the scna exam.. still I gave it 4 stars because I find that it can use some more proof reading.. some stupid mistakes were made in the text..
I can't tell you about the quality of the review questions or the
practice exam because I didn't really trust (didn't try them)them after noticing the not so superb editing quality.
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Summary: a so so book
Review: Technically inaccurate in many, many places, I would definitely not consider it the "Training Guide" it claims to be. However, if you want a half way decent overview of various Networking topics, and want to know just enough to cover the exam, then the information in this book is helpful. If you really want to be a professional Network Administrator, I would suggest reading the "Suggested Readings and Resources" section at the end of each chapter or avoiding this book altogether and picking up a copy of "UNIX System Administration Handbook" (Nemeth, et. al.) and/or a few O'Reilly books.
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