Novell's CNE® Study Set: IntranetWare¿/NetWare® 4.11

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Summary: Enough metaphores already
Review: Once you get past the korny jokes and korny zen phrases you finally get to the Useful information. These two books could have easily compiled to one.. The author needed to focus on content instead of filling pages with useless text...

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Summary: Save the trees
Review: Once you get past the korny jokes and korny zen phrases you finally get to the Useful information. These two books could have easily compiled to one.. The author needed to focus on content instead of filling pages with useless text...

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Summary: If you have high blood pressure, don't read this book!
Review: This book will probably make you stroke out if you are easily annoyed by cutsy interruptions and "Zen" utterances. I found this book unusable for my CNE study. One must read and absorb the entire book before you take any test. Some of the information is dated and occasionally some errors. I recommend Novell's "white books" along with Self Test Software test prep material...don't waste your money on this book

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Summary: Great!!
Review: This is by far the best vendor-specific certification study tool available. It has all the necessary info in regards to the exams, and comes complete with a 2-user license of Novell NetWare 4.11 which is essential in order for you to grasp the concepts of NetWare. The only minor niggle is with the structuring of the CNE study guide - it isn't organised exam-by-exam as is the Core Tech. guide. But that aside this set features two guides that are wonderfully written and software which is very useful.

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Summary: Most Excellent Book!!
Review: You can use these two books to pass all the CNE exams except the elective. It does have alot of extra funny stuff in it but it doesn't get in the way and some of it is quite nice. It has brain teasers which generally have nothing to do with Netware but are good for giving you a break from studying and help to sharpen your thinking. At first I thought I didn't like the jokes, teasers, and quotes but when I had to get a book by a different author for my elective I really found it dull and extremely boring after Mr. Clark's books. You also get a small version of the Clark tests for Core Technologies, a demo of the MTL so you can become familiar with it, 2-license Netware, and other demos on CD. You can't miss with these books. You can get your CNE using them alone (except for the elective). I did.