Rating: 
Summary: Don't waste your money!
Review: A Slapdash.
It seems like Author doesn't care about reader at all.
Non-systematic, not full, fragmentary.
Questions in a book MUCH simpler then in real exam.
Questions on CD are the same as in a book. "Exam" on disk contains no explanations, no commentaries, even no references to book pages (just "Refer to the book for additional explainations", "No hint available", etc.).
The only "Appendix A" (80 pages out of 570) contains absolutely useless for exam prep staff: executables names, rights mask, file sizes and cheksums. I wish author would redeem my copy of his book.
Rating: 
Summary: A good start
Review: I am an experienced administrator of UNIX systems and I picked this book up out of interest. It seems to cover most of the material not just for exam but "after exam". Truly, if readers think that reading a book will allow them to pass the exam, they are ignorant. You will need experience not books my friends! This book is a good place to start though.
Rating:
Summary: Cuts through the bull
Review: I am learning Solaris after years in the Windows world and I am also learning that Solaris Certification is a heck of a lot tougher than my MSCE. But breaking into the world is hard - every book I pick up is just visual spaghetti. This book is focused, to the point and is worth it. Maybe some of the reviewers here know more than me, but I am learning a lot from this book.
The thing I really want is to get a UNIX simulator or something to practise on.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent for those with 1-3 years experience
Review: I bought this book 4 weeks ago and I have steadily worked through all the exercises. I have 3 years experience with SunOS. I found that I could easily answer most of the questions which makes me confident that I'll pass the first exam next week. I'd like more practice exams to be included in a future edition - there are only 400 questions on the CD-ROM. Also, I might be blind, but I couldn't see any Microsoft jokes in this book lanman94...
Rating: 
Summary: Chapter 5 looks good to me
Review: I bought this book because I liked the author's beginner's book. Now I'm going to sit for my exam in two weeks, so I'm concerned about the nagtive "anonymous" reviewer from RI. I was worried that maybe Chapter 5 (about packages) contained lots of "unexplained terms". I checked my copy and found tons of "fully explained terms". For example, "pkgchk" is explained as "a command to examine the package properties of a file that's already been installed". That sounds pretty true to me. "pkgino" is used to check all of the packages which have been installed, and so on. I just can't find the unexplained terms, or the "copy/paste job from hell". And how would a Windows 2000 help me pass the Solaris exam anyway Mr. Reviewer from RI???
Rating:
Summary: A poor study guide- zero stars
Review: Since amazon.com keeps reminding me to rate this (because I bot it), here goes, although I haven't finsihed reading the whole book yet. It does have a lot of extra info (than other cert books), which may be a negative if you just want to pass the exam. It also omits basic practical things that an experienced SysAdmin would include. e.g. after stop-A, type "sync" at the ok prompt, to try to do the important sync of the filesystems (also called "panic zero"). I tried to use the chapter on format/partitioning for a student, but as we tried to read thru about the 3rd paragraph, it was so strangely worded that even I (Sr. SA) couldn't figure out what Paul was alluding to. (I began cursing the book at that point!) Many of the disk examples were done on Intel/X86 IDE disks (not Sparc SCSI).
I place most of the blame on the PUBLISHER: the McGraw-Hill editor or whoever was in charge should be FIRED for total incompentence and lack of any dillience. Yes, I can tell them how to do their job;-) : send review copies to qualified people who will actually read a chapter or two, AND follow up to verify that the reviewer did actually do this. One last thing: the back cover belongs to a DIFFERENT book (the net admin, future book).
Rating:
Summary: Too Little
Review: This all-in-one exam guide does not completely cover the various subject areas necessary to take the part II exam. It was not even close to in-depth enough to take, let alone pass the Part II exam. It also contained numerous errors and misleading statements. Overall the presentation was fair, but the content just is not there.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't waste your money on this one...
Review: This book does cover most of the Sun objectives for the exam... But the book is poorly written, with a lot of mistakes. (Many of the mistakes are already listed in the other reviews here.) I also agree with reviewer "Sally" in that the content was copy and pasted all throughout the book... Paul Watters has a good start here, but needs to pay more attention to detail... and needs to add more examples and content. I don't believe that many will pass with just this book. Oh yeah... Paul... you can stop with all those Windows jokes... I've heard them all.
Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money on this one...
Review: This book does cover most of the Sun objectives for the exam... But the book is poorly written, with a lot of mistakes. (Many of the mistakes are already listed in the other reviews here.) I also agree with reviewer "Sally" in that the content was copy and pasted all throughout the book... Paul Watters has a good start here, but needs to pay more attention to detail... and needs to add more examples and content. I don't believe that many will pass with just this book. Oh yeah... Paul... you can stop with all those Windows jokes... I've heard them all.
Rating:
Summary: A good resource
Review: This book seems to cover all of the material required for the exams (I and II any way). It could be longer - maybe more examples would help. Overall, though, a nicely presented volume with some very helpful exam software.
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