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Summary: Excellent study guide
Review: As an experienced system administrator (AIX, DG-UX, Linux, HP-UX - HP Certified) I have found this book to be very useful. It is not a beginners how to book, but lists a lot of very useful information for day to day work as well as for exam preparation. True, the included CD is aimed at Windows PCs, but it's very easy to access the PDF files on a Linux system as well without using the Windows programs. I would recommend this book to anyone studying for RHCE.
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Summary: Excellent RH302 exam prep!!
Review: For 2003, the orangeroom.org folks decided to host a Red Hat Linux Certification class, and we had to chose a book as our reference text. After thoroughly researching all of the current and available texts (both off-line and on-line), we came to the decision that this text from Osborne Certification Press was the best available at the time. Indeed, our decision has paid off well! This text provides excellent and up-to-date information about getting your Red Hat certification. The author provides many helpful tips along the way, but does not waste your time with superfluous info. Each chapter ends with Chapter Summaries and Self-Test sections -- which are great reviews of the material covered. So far, we have all been very pleased with the pacing of the material and the manner in which it is presented. Overall, an excellent book! There was a CD-ROM included with the book which includes the entire book in Acrobat format and an "Osborne MasterExam" test. The electronic text works great, however, I cannot seem to get the "MasterExam" to install and run on Windows 2000. This would be the only downside to the book, but it is a technical glitch related to the included CD-ROM (and not a reflection of the content covered in the book). Again, I could have a faulty CD-ROM or just not be installing it correctly, but such is life. I think one could do very well on an RHCE exam using this book as preparation -- even if the MasterExam doesn't work!! For a current look at Red Hat 8.0 and the certification requirements, give this book a try!
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Summary: Just Excellent
Review: I brought this book yesterday. I was quite amazed to see Jang's writing style. its toooo good. I want to rate this at 10 but ur system does not allow me to do this. Right now, I am preparing for RHCE very hardly.
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Summary: "Good" but just for a theory
Review: I have RHCE and "yes" I bought this book but "no" it didn't help me. Why you ask? Because RedHat has changed their exam in Dec 2003. Please visit RedHat website to find out what they changed and how the exam will be given. Because of the NDA I'll be able to tell you that this exam is 100% performance based and it means that there are not going to be any multiple choise MSCE* kinds of questions. Everything will be based on your EXPERIENCE. Do yourself a favor, buy any kind of RedHat bible and brake your servers / networks so many times as humanly possible, then you'll be ready to take the exam. This book is good as any other Linux Bible books.
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Summary: Great Overview, Good Preperation
Review: I really like the flow of how the information in this book is presented. The book not only walks through the material but also keeps an eye toward the test itself adding ideas and tips for saving time when taking the test.
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Summary: mostly useful
Review: I'm using this book to study for the exam since I cannot afford the $2,000 Red Hat courses. I understand that there's lead-time to publishing a book and a preliminary version of Red Hat 8.0 was used during the writing, but I find no errata/updates from the publisher to correct for all the discrepencies in the book vs. the actual 8.0 system. Here's one example of the book being out of sync with reality: Disk Druid now handles RAID and LVM so there's less need for the command line interface. None of that's in the book since it apparently didn't exist yet. As an EE I took issue with some of the chapter 2's descriptions of hardware, particularly the emphasis on understanding things that are mostly informational instead of configurable. Most parts I've handled for the past years were PCI so they were truly plug-and-play. I used to handle ISA cards with jumpers and manual configuration files, but that's not covered on the test and most folks never touch that anymore. I'm confused why it took so many pages for a book that's supposed to remain focused on test preparation. I must admit I had tremendous trepidations about trying netinstalls on my own. The book didn't say how to set up my own netinstall server, or online servers to try that. Web searches found how to set up my own server and try the netinstalls since I am led to believe that may be on the exam. I learned that once the server address is entered, the install continues the same as a CD install. I would have been GREATLY relieved had I known that earlier! And the CD needs Windows for full functionality!
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Summary: A must have for the RHCE Exam and good reference
Review: My review is long overdue, But I felt this is needed since I'm now RHCE and people are asking me what I used to pass it. I just read this book plus used two old computers and viola...I passed. Just make sure you practice the sample exams at the end. Or better yet, get somebody to break your installation using the intruction from the book and you go fix it. The only reason I give it a 4 star is because it referred to RH 8 and the exam was version 9 which just came out when I took it. I'm sure the latest version would be a lot better. I still use this book from time to time as a reference.
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Summary: This is only a test
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Summary: Outdated - needs an overhaul
Review: The information in the book is accurate and reasonably well written, but it no longer reflects the topics stressed in the RHCE exam. The long chapter on rebuilding the kernel and the modules is no longer needed. I wasted way too much time learning this material that is no longer on the test. Also, critical services like POP, IMAP, automount and sendmail do not recieve enough coverage. This book appears to still be the best single source for RHCE review, but be aware that is is not nearly enough to get you through the test. It should be considered one resource among many that you will need.
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Summary: Good info...horrible questions
Review: The information presented is clear and understandable...however...the test questions he has are some of the worst I have ever heard. They are vague and contradictory. The information presented is clear and understandable, however, the test questions he has are some of the worst I have ever seen. They are both vague and contradictory. He tries to trick you with some questions but all he does is confuse you as to why he worded the question that way given the answer. Outside of the bad questions, the book is excellent for use as a study guide or for reference! I suggest you purchase this book if you are planning on taking the RHCE or even if you are not. It is a great guide for Linux users and administrators. Find another book for practice tests and questions, but get this one to study with.
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