Rating: 
Summary: Too many errors
Review: This book does provides a good overview of networking principles (IP addressing schemes, net masking, OSI layers, etc.) and other topics beyond memorization of HTML tags. Unfortunately, there are also a number of glaring errors in the text and chapter practice tests in this book; errors that leave me frankly astonished and frustrated with my test preparation routine. (...) I am unaware of any other test prep books for the CIW Foundations Exam, so this book may be your only choice... but be forewarned!
Rating: 
Summary: Very weak in HTML
Review: This book gets some basic, high-level Internet information correct, but there are many errors. While a network engineer may scoff at the networking chapters, it does seem to cover the topics required for the exam. From a programmer's perspective, the HTML and programming chapters are poorly done. According to the author's bio, this is a book written by a person with networking experience, but very little programming experience, and it shows.This book is useful as a review of information you have learned elsewhere if you approach it with the goal of finding all of the errors. Typos are one thing, factual errors are unacceptable. The rating is two stars due to the networking content. Otherwise, it would be one star.
Rating: 
Summary: Not a good book
Review: This book goes way overboard in the networking areas and scrimps on areas such as firewall topologies, intellectual property and standard types of hacks. A lot of the information about servers and networking goes way over your head unless you already know about the topic, and about half the info on networking is just touched on superficially on the exam. If you use this book to study, you're going to spend way too much time on networking and you won't know about a third of the other things -- HTML and JavaScript coding, for example -- that you need to know for the exam.
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