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Summary: Excellent! Focus on important and relevant topics.
Review: A big Thank-you to the authors for this excellent book ! I have passed the Network+ exam with 94%, this week. The authors explain AND show you the concepts and how the ideas are connected together, clearly, making it easy to understand and remember. Example: It explain clearly the concepts on NETBIOS and Socket and show their relationship, making it so easy to understand and remember. In this way, it is like showing you how to put the many pieces of jigsaw puzzle together. It save you plenty of time too! Many other books explain the concepts in fragments (it is like giving you several pieces of a jigsaw puzzle), without showing how they are interrelated or how the ideas are connected together. Strengths: (1) Focus on what are important and relevant. (2) Contents are clear and easy to understand. (3) Tell AND show clearly the relationships between concepts. (4) Include many pictures, photographs and illustrations to help you see, understand and review better. (5) Test questions on the CD ROM are very helpful! Weakness: (1) One important error (100BaseFX - Chapter 2, page 76) The correct maximum length for 100BaseFX cable is 1000 meters (not 400 meters as stated in the book). (2) Omission error: Brouter is not explained in the book. (Brouter is a hybrid between Bridge and a Router, and is used on the Data Link and Network Layer of the OSI model). The book also filter the unnecessary in-depth TCP/IP details that are beyond the scope of Network+ exam, but which are required for the MCSE TCP/IP exam. In this way, it help to keep you focused on studying what is important and relevant for the Network+ exam. without unnecessary burden. Buy and study this book. Then experience the joy of understanding which the authors have labored to make this technical book, as complete as possible, as well as easy, for the reader to understand and pass your exam. Remember to study (not just read) this book, and then go and pass your Network+ Exam.!
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Summary: This book is clear and concise.
Review: Because I had previously read Meyers A+ book I selected his Network + book. His A+ book succesfully guided me through the A+ test and his Network + book has not disappointed me. He takes complicated scenarios, confusing terminology, and abstract concepts and brings them to an understandable level.
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Summary: Errata Corrige please!
Review: Between the so much present errors in the book, I believe that most serious it is that to page xxiii of the introduction where it assert that the pass score is of the 68%. The pass score of the examination is instead of the 82%, that it in practical terms implicates a very better difficulty. Is obvious that, it could not restrain responsible the author if anybody doesn't overcome the examination. But prepare in base to an average of the 68% or an of the 82%, creed could influence in the result. I believe am correct and opportune do the corrections of the present errors and add an ERRATA CORRIGE with the dispatch of the book, so that the readers could avoid them.
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Summary: Don't rely solely on this book
Review: Easy to read, author breaks down some of the more difficult concepts presented. The text is broken up with lots of photos, charts, and figures. This is a great familiarization for people that can't get their hands-on networking hardware. However, as others have noted, this book is full of typos and information that is just downright wrong! For instance, the author sites InterNIC as the agency responsible for assigning IP addresses (should be IANA). The test engine on the enclosed CD only works if you have MS Access. I have Access, but I still have to play around with the test engine to get it to work. As is the case with most of these certification series books, they give you two free tests, but you have to purchase a code to unlock the other tests. The questions on the free tests were too easy. I would recommend Microsoft Press's book and the Exam Cram Networks+ as your primary study materials.
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Summary: Network+ All in One Certification: Don't leave home without
Review: For those [PC Technicians, Home/Office PC users, PC hackers, etc] who were previledged to read or use the A+ Certification Exam Guide, you will vehemently soon come to agree with me that you don't need any advertisement or recommendation for this book before you can read or find use for the Network+ All in One Certification: Exam Guide. As with A+ Certification Exam Guide, Network+ All in one Certification is written in layman's language. Hardware photo illustrations and easy to relate examples and analogies were the main Writer's writing utilities. If your focus is to learn about PC Network technology or to be out in the field working as a Network Technician, or in preparation to take the A+ Certification exam, the Network+ All in one Certification is highly recommended for you. After using Network+ All in one Certification for any or all of the above purposes, this computer book will also serve as your reference guide. At the end of it all, this book is still a treasure to have on your book shelf.
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Summary: Passed with 850/900
Review: Hi, Just recently passed N+ exam with 850/900. The only references i used are this book and Coriolis N+ Exam Cram/Prep kit. Also bought CiCprep Exam simulation. I found that Mr. Meyers book is full of examples and analogies that help understand some difficult concepts. On the other hand, there is lots of typos and errors in the tests. But i would not hesitate to recommend this book, but coupled with a more advanced book to balance for the lack of depth of certain concepts. Good luck.
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Summary: Passed with 850/900
Review: Hi, Just recently passed N+ exam with 850/900. The only references i used are this book and Coriolis N+ Exam Cram/Prep kit. Also bought CiCprep Exam simulation. I found that Mr. Meyers book is full of examples and analogies that help understand some difficult concepts. On the other hand, there is lots of typos and errors in the tests. But i would not hesitate to recommend this book, but coupled with a more advanced book to balance for the lack of depth of certain concepts. Good luck.
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Summary: The Ultimate Book for learning networking!!
Review: I am amazed that a book can be so easy to read and cover so many technical topics. The authors have an inate ability to take technobabble and translate it so that everyone can understand. A very complete guide to prepare for the Network + exam. A must have for anyone who wants to learn networking from the ground up.
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Summary: Clear-cut and complete!
Review: I finished this book in one week, reading on average 2 chapters per day. I answered the end of chapter review questions and completed the two electronic tests that were included on CD-ROM. I scored 91% on the exam. I must say that Meyers, et al are good writers. They make concepts readily graspable and consistently present the topics within a logical framework. The authors also emphasize completeness. As a study aid, I found it helpful to draw out the concepts with pen and paper before looking at the plentiful and by and large accurate -- but sometimes crude -- diagrams that were included in the text. This congealed the essence of every chapter. Before writing the A+ exam, it took more time and effort for me to read the longer Microsoft Press A+ Certification text and my understanding of the material and score on the tests was much lower (I should have studied Meyers' A+ guide!). Nevertheless, I consulted the Amazon reviews before purchasing a Network+ study guide and I was not dissapointed.
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Summary: All in One Cert
Review: I found the book overall clear in the detail that was written
but poorly presented graphically. You need to have a knowledge
of networking before tackling this book. There are a lot of errors and some information that should be there is not ie; What
does a Fibre port look like. The CD is of no use if you are running Win2k or XP. To sum up the book looks old and is old by technology standards. By the way I passed at 928.
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