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A Certification Study Guide 3rd Edition
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Rating: 2.3/5 from 10 reviews Will help you pass if you work at it.Ok on Hardware, absolute garbage on the OS portionAfter reading the Hardware portion of this book and completing the practice exams for the Hardware test, I passed, although not by a wide margin. After reading the OS portion of this book twice, completing the practice exams, and EVEN MAKING NOTECARDS OF THE ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEMS SECTION, I failed the OS test. One hundred bucks down the tube, thanks Syngress, I wish I would have read this review page before buying the book. I do not understand why this book has such poor coverage, it has the CompTIA approval logo on it. Ah lessons learned. Good on hardware, poor on OS, NO SUPPORTThe hardware part of this book was great. I passed the exam with flying colours on this part. However the second part, on OSes, is largely insufficient. I got 4 or five questions in the exam (out of 30!) that clearly had never been covered in the book. The software on the accompanying CD is buggy and useless. The so-called adaptive exam is not adaptive at all and does not teach you anything about what the real thing will be like. Syngress has simply not answered my mail asking for a new version of the software. Some mistakes in the text are also unacceptable (like the Pentium II only going up to 333 MHz when it really went to 450). | ||||||||||||||||||
The first part, Core Hardware, the book goes over the components, installation and configuration, troubleshooting, safety, power, motherboards, CPUs, memory, networking and printing. As a computer instructor this fits right into the curriculum.
Part 1, Operating Systems, you start of at the fundamentals, work with DOS through Windows 2000 professional, installation, configuration and troubleshooting as well as networking. Again the perfect fir into the teaching arena.
The book gives you 2-minute drills, self tests, lab questions, figures, tables and diagrams with each chapter. The breakdown is good and the information presented is excellent. The book has made major improvements over the previous versions.
Included with the book is the cd-rom with both the CertTrainer, a CBT software application that allows the learning at your pace. Also is ExamSim, which gives you practice tests and there are over 220 questions. Overall a very good value for the money.