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Summary: Overall a decent effort.
Review: Stephen Bigelow is well respected expert in the IT and computer industry. Mike Meyers is also one of the most respected names in the certification arena. Put them both together and the Certification Passport for Server+ is the final result. In only 400 pages there is a complete coverage of the Server+ Exam. The author has prepared a text that lays out the exam objective by objective. Topics include topologies, hardware like hubs, routers and switches, network operating systems like NT, 2000, Novell, UNIX and Linux. From there network security, server configuration, RAID and SCSI configuration, server maintenance, Tape Back-up units, UPS and virus configuration are the next topics covered. Finally the areas of IDE, SCSI and RAID technologies, the CPU, bus, memory, motherboards, NICs and troubleshooting round the manual. There is a cd-rom included which has practice exams so you can have the best chance before going live.
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Summary: Great Line of books but this one fell short
Review: The Mike Meyers "Passport Series" are usually a great line of books to buy when you need to pass your certification tests. I haved used the A+ and Net + so far and have passed those certifications. Yet this one fell short. I took the test first time thinking i knew everything since i had read the whole book, i was wrong. There were questions that i knew were going to be on the test but the book did not cover them in depth or at any time at all. SCSI technology was covered very well and deeply in depth and so was Networking, but that was it that is what is mainly discussed in the book anything else is just BRIEFLY mentioned. I would used this book just for reference for SCSI and Networks, but you seriously need another book if you just buy this one. I have just bought the Server + Bible and well see if that works to help me pass the test the second time around.
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Summary: Great Line of books but this one fell short
Review: The Mike Meyers "Passport Series" are usually a great line of books to buy when you need to pass your certification tests. I haved used the A+ and Net + so far and have passed those certifications. Yet this one fell short. I took the test first time thinking i knew everything since i had read the whole book, i was wrong. There were questions that i knew were going to be on the test but the book did not cover them in depth or at any time at all. SCSI technology was covered very well and deeply in depth and so was Networking, but that was it that is what is mainly discussed in the book anything else is just BRIEFLY mentioned. I would used this book just for reference for SCSI and Networks, but you seriously need another book if you just buy this one. I have just bought the Server + Bible and well see if that works to help me pass the test the second time around.
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Summary: Thin
Review: This book is written by the same author as the Server+ All-in-One book, Stephen Bigelow. It is pretty much that book without all the useless pages of tables. It even has the same picture of the SCSI adapter labeled as a NIC. This book doesn't have much information on server environments, benchmarking, and troubleshooting. These subjects are definately covered on the exam I'm not sure how anybody thinks that they can read this book and pass the very difficult Comptia Server+ exam. It is less than half the size of many of the other Server+ books.
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