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Summary: Server + Exam Cram not up to Coriolis Standards
Review: The Server + Exam Cram covers most of the subject matter in the Comptia Server+ Exam. However much of the material is descriptive rather than hard information expected from a "brain dump" tome. There is no excuse for the many typographical errors throughout the book, as well as incorrect answers to practice questions. One of the answers listed Amps as a unit of Amplitude, rather than Current flow, showing that the Authors had no concept of basic electricity! Many of the Comptia exam questions are now real world situations with more than one correct answer, which this book covers superficially. This Exam Cram book needs to be revised and brought up to the Coreolis standard of hard facts, accurate information, and practice questions simulating the actual Server+ test.
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Summary: Skip this Server+ resource
Review: This book brings nothing to the table except for more review questions for a Server+ candidate to dutifully go through. Even then, some of the questions and answers are mismatched. The information presented are wrought with spelling errors and can only imagine that the editor(s) were busy doing something else. The SCSI, RAID and backup chapters did not have enough information in my opinion which is a no-no considering the emphasis the exam puts on these topics. However, this book is a quick read and is best used a week before the actual exam date much like the Passport series, but I think you'd do better elsewhere.
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Summary: Chock Full of Good Stuff!
Review: This book was excellent! Especially the chapter on memory. It clears up a bunch of questions. I like the level of detail and how it is couched in real-world terms. This will prepare you for that exam. Good Stuff!
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Summary: Skip this Server+ resource
Review: This text does an excellent job covering the topics included in the exam. Many of the end-of-chapter practice questions were nearly identical to the (pre-adaptive) exam. Also, the structure of all the practice questions are identical to the exam. I also liked how the text regularly alerted the reader to test related distinctions. On the down side, it contains a number of mistyped text and technical nomenclature. For example, MB appears in a few places when GB was clearly intended based upon the surrounding context. The frequency of such typos left me worrying about other unrecognized mistakes I could not contextually infer. Better editing is needed. Unfortunately, the Coriolis web site refused my connection when I attempted to check for corrections and addendums to the text. Nevertheless, I learned a great deal from the text and am quite pleased overall. Unlike that ruinous study guide by Stephen Bigelow, this text is worth of its title as an exam study guide.
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Summary: A Good Resource
Review: This text does an excellent job covering the topics included in the exam. Many of the end-of-chapter practice questions were nearly identical to the (pre-adaptive) exam. Also, the structure of all the practice questions are identical to the exam. I also liked how the text regularly alerted the reader to test related distinctions. On the down side, it contains a number of mistyped text and technical nomenclature. For example, MB appears in a few places when GB was clearly intended based upon the surrounding context. The frequency of such typos left me worrying about other unrecognized mistakes I could not contextually infer. Better editing is needed. Unfortunately, the Coriolis web site refused my connection when I attempted to check for corrections and addendums to the text. Nevertheless, I learned a great deal from the text and am quite pleased overall. Unlike that ruinous study guide by Stephen Bigelow, this text is worth of its title as an exam study guide.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: While the few other Coriolis Exam Cram books I have used have been of good to excellent quality, I discovered when only a few questions into the Server+ exam that this particular book was almost completely useless. I did pass the exam, but with little help from this book. There are numerous typos (is that GB or MB?), inconsistencies, and straight-out errors. The actual content is barely relevant to the onslaught of experience-based troubleshooting questions on the exam. I gave this two stars instead of one because I do recall a couple questions (out of an eighty question exam) where my studying in the book actually did help me. I hate to give a Coriolis book a bad rating, seeing as how they've always released quality products in the past, but this book is just terrible in comparison.
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