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Summary: Pass on this one, folks.
Review: I have found the book to helpful in aiding me to pass the inet+ exam. The material needed for the test was covered -- more than I wanted to know sometimes - but thorough. I agree that some of the clipart was rough, but I have no other complaints about this book. I would recommend it to my friend.
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Summary: Poorly written, even more poorly edited
Review: I have had good luck with other "all in one exam guide" titles. But this one has turned me off to the series. First the author has poor orginizational skills. He starts talking about the OSI model in one chapter, but doesn't finish the tought untill another. There are errors of many types, some errors due to no research, some due to a light understanding of the subject material. The images in the book are missing importaint text and are useless. The included Virtual Study Group CD is a waste. It contains a HTML version of the same horribale text and no additional materials. It's sole purpose seems to be to distract the reader with a discussion link on every page. There was only one other person in my study group, and he must have died from reading the text because he never responded or participated. All and all this book was a complete waste of money. If you are looking to pass this exam please heed my advice and pass this up. To see the author's internet savy, just take a look at his companies web site
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Summary: Buyer, Beware!
Review: I must admmit that this book was:1. Boring 2. Many mistake 3. Difficult to install the program. Unfortunatelly, there is no erratta section on McGrawHill Homepage..it's a pitty !!.
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Summary: LET MIKE AND CO KEEP THE COMPTIA FRANCHISE
Review: I wholeheartedly agree with the reader from San Diego, CA USA Jamie L Smolinski, and Matthew Hansen: I also felt compelled to write this review because I would not want you to be as disappointed as I do. I found that the book is not only poorly organized (seems that bits of information were just thrown together to make a chapter) but also that it is and hastily written... Hopefully they know their mistakes now that they have gone back through it and were fixing the mistakes. If they're not conscious of them yet, let's point out some glaring mistakes aside from the typos (honest mistake, typographic or what-not? But still overlooked!). Take for insatnce, the #5 and 7 answers to the questions in Chap 2. I have gone through their contents and all other books but the answer for #5 should be Internet Engineering Task Force for #5 and not International Engineers Task Force; and for #7, it should be IETF and not IEFT. There are many others but these 2 will already show the uncaring haste in writing the book. And how in the world did they throw in those questions about the TCP/IP diagnostic tools in this portion when they have not really discussed it in this chapter yet? How? I also am questioning why really such disparity in reviews? It is not in any way a 4- or 5-star book! It is poorly done. So please do not waste your time in this book. This has really turned me off.
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Summary: Colossal disappointment
Review: Just far too many typo errors to list, so much so that the authors seemed to have confused themselves. One blatant example is the question 7 at the end of Chapter 1 - Which Internet consortium would you suggest a change or RFC for other board members to comment and vote on for standardizations? a) IEEE b)IEFT c)IETF d)IEET The correct answer should be c) (Internet Engineering Task Force)....and SURPRISE, SURPRISE, in the book, the correct answer is listed as b)IEFT!! Besides shenanigans like this, the authors sometimes also got the full title of the acronyms wrong. All in all, the impression I got was that the authors tried to beat some unrealistic deadline in completing the book such that they did not bother to check or to proofread and had to scribble everything hurriedly while working through the night and losing sleep and concentration. The greatest disappointment of all, however, is that the book actually contains very relevant material, and that the concepts are very well-illustrated and explained. However, after coming across so many typo errors, I had lost confidence in the acronyms and the definitions such that I had to double check everything from other sources just to make sure. In other words, this is a good enough book to learn something about the internet, but a next to worthless book for preparing for exams. It was lucky that I happened to have bought this book for half-price! Caveat emptor.
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Summary: Buyer, Beware!
Review: Supposedly, this book contained a CD that allowed you to access and become part of an online study group, which is the main reason I bought the book. Forget it, I had problem logging into the server, requested help from the support staff,whose web site promises superlative tech support, and haven't heard from them for over a week. Still can't access my VIRTUAL STUDY GROUP, THAT THE BOOK'S COVER PROMISES. Too late for me, I am returning this book to my local bookseller, because the content leaves alot to be desired, also. Very dry, poorly organized, nothing like the All-In- One Network + Certification book by Mike Meyers, which is the best network book I have ever read. Mike, can you write an I-Net book for the hungry minds out there?
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Summary: Boring!
Review: This book is extremely boring and dry.. I could barely get past the first few chapters without falling asleep. Nothing is organized and there are bits of information just thrown together in paragraphs. The CD was a waste of time and nobody was ever in the study group.
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Summary: LET MIKE AND CO KEEP THE COMPTIA FRANCHISE
Review: When I purchased this book it was based on the fact that I had previously purchased the other 2 EXCELLENT titles in the series(A+ & Net+). Expecting Mr Zeff to maintain the excellent precedent set by Mr Meyers & co, I was sorely DISAPPOINTED to discover that this book was nowhere near as good as the other 2. Firstly, it is riddled with typos and in a few cases the solutions at the end do not have corresponding alphabets and answers eg. a) WRONG OPTION. Secondly Mr Zeff's tone in the book is a dry matter of fact one, as opposed to HAVE FUN WHILE YOU LEARN approach of Mr Meyers. Thirdly, some of the diagrams in the book are not even clear. The BOOK WAS A CHORE to trudge through and prompted me to find an alternative source once I completed it as I was not satistied with the end result. Fortunately I enrolled with WAVE Technologies for their SELF-STUDY course and this IS WHAT PULLED ME through the exam. NEXT TIME MC-GRAWHILL leave the Comptia exams to Mr Meyers & co
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