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Summary: Not Map to the Exam Objectives
Review: As a Ceritifed CIW instructor, I'm sometimes asked by students as to which books are suitable to augment the already comprehensive official curriculum. I've looked at the ones currently out there, and this book unfortunately, does not meet many of the mapped objectives. For example, the over emphasis of Networking seems to be about an introduction course the the Cisco CCNA rather than the book trying to give an overview of the CIW objectives. Subsequently, because of the undue weightage, the other objectives suffer, and notably, the HTML section which is briefly skimmed through.While this book might give some additional info for those who have an added interest in networking, nevertheless, I feel that there are other books out there that give much more networking info and cost the same.
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Summary: Even better if there was an exam prep book.
Review: CIW, Certified Internet Webmaster, is gaining respect and popularity throughout the IT industry. While there a re few books or study material available, since most of the material is from ProSoft classes, it nice to see Coriolis taking a lead in giving you a final prep book to work with. CIW Foundations consists of Internet business, HTML and networking fundamentals, and this exam cram takes care of the highlights but will need to get more material and Coriolis should look into an Exam Prep version of this book. Topics like general networking, OSI model, ISO, IEEE, ICANN, W3C and other organizations, common protocols like IP, IPX, TCP, SPX and AppleTalk, encryption, network monitoring, web pages and HTML, security and Internet search engines are covered in the book. Over 400 pages also include a sample test however no cd with practice questions included. Overall you get a great deal of information in a small package, well done.
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Summary: html 4th edition
Review: I haven't read the book. Does any one recommend it? But HTML 4th Edition by Elizabeth Castro is extremly helpful
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Summary: Not a good book
Review: I just took the exam today and I know first hand this book doesn't have a clue about what they are talking about. If you use this book you will fail the exam. I am almost tempted to write these people for my money back. It is a terrible book.
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Summary: Don't buy this!!!
Review: I just took the exam today and I know first hand this book doesn't have a clue about what they are talking about. If you use this book you will fail the exam. I am almost tempted to write these people for my money back. It is a terrible book.
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Summary: Good Enough to Help Me Pass
Review: I thought this was a pretty good cram book. The CIW Foundations test is broken down into three categories: Internet Fundamentals, Web Page Authoring Fundamentals, and Networking Fundamentals. The book covers networking the heaviest which was good for me because that is my weakest of the three areas. Overall I thought it was a good preparation for the exam and many questions related directly to text I had read. If you're weak on web authoring you might want to get something else. If you're weak on networking but strong in the other areas I recommend this book. I didn't notice any errors but I didn't study the entire book. I passed my exam today so I suppose that is an endoresment.
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Summary: CIW Foundations Exam Cram (Exam: 1D0-410)
Review: If your thinking of doing self-study alone to pass the Foundations exam, this book is certainly helpful. The cramsession web-site also has some good pdf downloads. Unfortunately there are many mistakes (which are only obvious as you read other sources) and some misleading question / answers. However, if used in conjunction with other e-commerce / firewalls / html references and online exams, you should pass. I recently took the exam and found 40-45 questions matched the cert21 exam questions.
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Summary: Errors - some serious, some just annoying...
Review: keep this book from being as useful as it could otherwise be. In particular, the sections on the OSI model and DNS contain contradictory information, and a number of the sample questions patently record the wrong answers (i.e., you can tell because the answers in the questions don't correspond to the explanations provided). The section on subnet masking would be inadequate for anyone who doesn't already understand how to generate subnet masks. The book's discussion of HTML includes patently incorrect markup - don't rely on the book for any HTML coding. Finally, the book goes into intricate detail on many areas covered only very superficially on the exam, and leaves out some areas the exam requires (i.e., don't worry about most of those command line discussions for various programs, but do seek out additional information on, say, hacking and evaluating security risks). Taken with a grain of salt - and read critically and carefully, checking all important sections against tutorials available on the web or other reference materials - this book can help you structure your study for the Foundations exam. At present, it's the only thing out there on the exam, and it does provide a systematic overview of many exam topics. Under the circumstances (since it's the only book on the market) I'm not unhappy to have bought it - but if I were planning to take the exam a few months from now, I might well have bought something else instead...
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Summary: Bad information
Review: The book had alot of incorrect information, one being about the two main subcategories of DSL, it should have read ADSL and SDSL not VDSL and ADSL. Also I had a question on the test about a type of virus that was not even mentioned in the book and not to mention thast the book was writen very poorly with all types of grammer errors.
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Summary: Good, but not user-friendly.
Review: There are many good and relevant aspects to this book that will help you in passing the CIW Foundations exam. Unfortunately the over-emphasis on Networking to the detriment of other objectives and tortuous use of terminology to explain, more terminology, don't make this as accessible as it could be. You'll also find several mistakes and a number of holes in the content vis-avis the actual exam. It's best not to rely on this as your only resource. At the very least purchase some self-test software, ... and fill the gaps. If like me however, you are heading for the master CIW Designer route, am experienced in web design and the Internet, but need bolstering in the networking dept., then this could just be the wake up call you need. Especially as there are few other CIW Foundation self-study books on the shelves.
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