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Summary: Not even close...
Review: I bought this book and read it for a good hour. After having just read the Solaris 8 version the week before, it's clear to me that the contents of this book were not adjusted for Solaris 9. For UNIX types, s/Solaris 8/Solaris 9/g pretty much sums it up. Even the typos from the previous edition are still there.I'm not familiar with Mr. Gibbs' other work, but in this case it appears that they brought him in to update the excellect Solaris 8 version of this book, which was originally written by a talented group of admins. Mr. Gibbs appears to have taken their money without doing any work in return. I returned this book and bought Ambro's Exam Cram 2 for Solaris 9, which is very condensed but accurate. For in-depth coverage, I'm still searching for a good book.
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Summary: In a word: shovelware
Review: I bought this book and read it for a good hour. After having just read the Solaris 8 version the week before, it's clear to me that the contents of this book were not adjusted for Solaris 9. For UNIX types, s/Solaris 8/Solaris 9/g pretty much sums it up. Even the typos from the previous edition are still there. I'm not familiar with Mr. Gibbs' other work, but in this case it appears that they brought him in to update the excellect Solaris 8 version of this book, which was originally written by a talented group of admins. Mr. Gibbs appears to have taken their money without doing any work in return. I returned this book and bought Ambro's Exam Cram 2 for Solaris 9, which is very condensed but accurate. For in-depth coverage, I'm still searching for a good book.
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Summary: Use the exam cram book
Review: I did not like this book. It does not mention printing anywhere. It seams that the book was rushed to press to quickly. In some spots is says Solaris 8 where it should say Solaris 9.
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Summary: Book just keeps getting worse
Review: I echo everything that the good people have already said about this book. If you go on just the material that is published in this book, YOU WILL NOT PASS THE EXAMS. It is most certainly NOT 100% complete. It's missing key exam objective coverage on cron and at commands and more importantly, printers. Printers are a HUGE part of the exam, at least 10-15 questions out of 57. I just took part 1 of the SCSA, and if I would not have gone through the course and had the course materials to study from, I would have been sunk for the exam. Because of this material, however, I did pass. I've read some great reviews on the Exam Cram 2 book on the SCSA, so I will pick that up and use that as a supplement to the course materials for part 2. That said, in light of it's many failures, this book does contain info that is pertinent to the exam. Most of the information found in this book was contained in the Solaris 8 publication. Many of the concepts from Solaris 8 apply, so the book is helpful in some ways. It's just very annoying that it totally leaves out some key exam objective coverage.
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Summary: Go find another ...
Review: I echo everything that the good people have already said about this book. If you go on just the material that is published in this book, YOU WILL NOT PASS THE EXAMS. It is most certainly NOT 100% complete. It's missing key exam objective coverage on cron and at commands and more importantly, printers. Printers are a HUGE part of the exam, at least 10-15 questions out of 57. I just took part 1 of the SCSA, and if I would not have gone through the course and had the course materials to study from, I would have been sunk for the exam. Because of this material, however, I did pass. I've read some great reviews on the Exam Cram 2 book on the SCSA, so I will pick that up and use that as a supplement to the course materials for part 2. That said, in light of it's many failures, this book does contain info that is pertinent to the exam. Most of the information found in this book was contained in the Solaris 8 publication. Many of the concepts from Solaris 8 apply, so the book is helpful in some ways. It's just very annoying that it totally leaves out some key exam objective coverage.
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Summary: Does not cover some required topics
Review: I think this book covers Solaris 8 exam very well. But if you want to prepare to Solaris 9 exam you better find some supplementary reading. For example first part of the book does not cover Printer Management, which is a part of the 310-014 exam.
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Summary: Book just keeps getting worse
Review: I thought this version would improve on the problems that were found in the Solaris 8 version of this book, but it's worse. Maybe the publisher should get out of the Solaris market. Look elsewhere for a certification guide.
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Summary: Poor, Inaccurate Solaris 9 Study Guide
Review: I'm a Solaris instructor and our firm reviewed this book because it was the first one out and we needed a Solaris 9 training guide for our students; I returned it. In short, here's our review: Gibbs has 3 sentences on managing disks with SMC, nothing on managing core dumps, nothing on Flash archives, nothing on fssnap, nothing on printers, one sentence on smpatch. Gibbs devotes an entire chapter to vi and another entire chapter on basic command syntax- both are not on the exam. Gibbs also includes sections on Admintool and Adminsuite when both products have been discontinued in Solaris 9. Gibbs still refers to SVM as DiskSuite and the book contains numerous typos (ie. syslogc). Gibbs tells the reader to use rlogin, rcp, rsh and does not even speak of the secure shell. I could go on and on about what this book has missed. In short, we started using the Calkins Solaris 9 Training Guide (pub. Que) and our students are getting certified and getting jobs.
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Summary: I liked it
Review: I'm working on my solaris 9 certification and I can tell that this is a good book to use. I haven't done any exames yet but I'm going to put all the chances on my side by using the exam cram book so that way I won't come back here and complain about the book!! I've never done any certifications using only 1 book!! during my reading I found few errors but nothing major, still I enjoy reading a book without worring about the errors that's why I give a 4 out or 5 to this book! it's a very good solaris 9 book and I recommand it!
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Summary: Actually, the book does cover the right exams
Review: The book does cover 310-014 & 310-015. The error is in the table of contents, not in the actual book; the editor goofed and missed the number change, which is unfortunate! The book is actually very good otherwise, informative and important for passing the exams.
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