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Summary: Enjoyable & informative
Review: I found this book not only very informative & funny. The only reason I didn't give the 5th star is that it was written before the exam was released & the practice questions, while helpful to reinforce fundamentals, did not match what the exam authors came up with. In the real world, I'd trust Gary & Bob far more than the exam authors with security of a network. For sitting in a little room facing tough questions, add a good practice exam to run the score up. This book helped me pass on the first try.
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Summary: Enjoyable & informative
Review: I found this book not only very informative & funny. The only reason I didn't give the 5th star is that it was written before the exam was released & the practice questions, while helpful to reinforce fundamentals, did not match what the exam authors came up with. In the real world, I'd trust Gary & Bob far more than the exam authors with security of a network. For sitting in a little room facing tough questions, add a good practice exam to run the score up. This book helped me pass on the first try.
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Summary: Slim to none and slim left town
Review: I picked up this book to see if Sybex had a different angle on test 220. Due to it being different than all other tests with "choose, move and link " items in the test. By page 12 in the text they use the phase "slim to none, and slim left town" describing your chances of being called infront of shareholders. PLEASE! In addition still in the first section they begin stabs at Bill Gates "(isn't that right Mr. Gates?)"The authors have a very poor choice of wording throughout the entire book and side jokes that are dumb and inappropriate. I rate this as the worst "tech" book I have ever read. The last criticism is lack of spell check before going to press. Page 11 begins the errors with the following phrase "This stuff is more of the "for your information" ILK". From this point on either grammer or mispelled words riddle the text. Save the money and time.
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Summary: Slim to none and slim left town
Review: I picked up this book to see if Sybex had a different angle on test 220. Due to it being different than all other tests with "choose, move and link " items in the test. By page 12 in the text they use the phase "slim to none, and slim left town" describing your chances of being called infront of shareholders. PLEASE! In addition still in the first section they begin stabs at Bill Gates "(isn't that right Mr. Gates?)" The authors have a very poor choice of wording throughout the entire book and side jokes that are dumb and inappropriate. I rate this as the worst "tech" book I have ever read. The last criticism is lack of spell check before going to press. Page 11 begins the errors with the following phrase "This stuff is more of the "for your information" ILK". From this point on either grammer or mispelled words riddle the text. Save the money and time.
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Summary: Here's hoping the next ed. has major revisions
Review: I've been using this book for a couple of months now, teaching from it to my MCSE students. I would not recommend Govanus & King. Their writing style makes it very difficult to understand the material. They often use undefined terms causing one to have many reference texts open on one's desk to even understand them. I find my students getting lost in the chapters as well due to poor chapter structure. The info is there, but it's not very easy to glean the important material from this one. Save your money, this material does not meet Sybex's usually high standards. I found the book to be a little offensive as well due to the numerous off-color remarks and profanity present in the book. (Although the profanity may be considered light, I see it as wholly unnecessary.) One such remark was "You would have to be living under a rock for the last five years not to have used a DNS name..." Do the authors realize that only about 5% of the world has even used the internet or a computer? Do we really need to catagorize everyone who hasn't their level of knowledge as "living under a rock"? That's the tone of the book however.
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Summary: Here's hoping the next ed. has major revisions
Review: I've been using this book for a couple of months now, teaching from it to my MCSE students. I would not recommend Govanus & King. Their writing style makes it very difficult to understand the material. They often use undefined terms causing one to have many reference texts open on one's desk to even understand them. I find my students getting lost in the chapters as well due to poor chapter structure. The info is there, but it's not very easy to glean the important material from this one. Save your money, this material does not meet Sybex's usually high standards. I found the book to be a little offensive as well due to the numerous off-color remarks and profanity present in the book. (Although the profanity may be considered light, I see it as wholly unnecessary.) One such remark was "You would have to be living under a rock for the last five years not to have used a DNS name..." Do the authors realize that only about 5% of the world has even used the internet or a computer? Do we really need to catagorize everyone who hasn't their level of knowledge as "living under a rock"? That's the tone of the book however.
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