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Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (All-in-One) Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Shon Harris, Shon Harris Rating: 3/5  Good reference for CISSP. Easily comprehensible material. BTW, curious to know, has anybody taken CISSP exam, and not passed?
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Michael Meyers, Scott Jernigan Rating: 4/5  I purchased this book to use for a+ exam prep (2003 objectives) after conducting a lot of research on Amazon. My background: 8+ years of application development, technical troubleshooting, production support and PC/server maintenance experience. My story: I am working on filling out my resume with more hardware and networking training. Before my a+ studying I was very weak at hardware related topics but somewhat proficient in Microsoft Windows OS topics. Now I am stronger in both areas. I used two books for a+ test preparation. A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide by Michael Meyers, Scott Jernigan (this book) A+ Training Guide, Fifth Edition by Charles J. Brooks (please see this book on Amazon for my review) I found the A+ All in One Exam Guide valuable for the historical and conceptual material it offered on the included hardware and os topics. The author writes with some interest and humor just like the reviews stated on Amazon. The book has a real-world feel. It is detailed in many sections and provides tips to note for topics which may be covered on the exams. This book also included 2-3 practice tests for each exam (hardware and os). I found the practice tests to be VERY valuable in studying and preparing for the exams. I read this entire book one/two chapter(s) at a time over a period of time. I then went back over the book chapter by chapter taking notes and as I covered each chapter, I worked through the practice questions at the end of each chapter making sure to understand the details surrounding the ones which I missed. Once finished with this I took all of the practice exams in the back of this book. I was careful to study the items and explanations which I missed on the practice tests. I would state that another book should be used with this one in order to practice and prepare for the a+ exams (2003 objectives). I believe that both of the books which I used helped my exam preparation and ability to learn the actual topics in different ways. Both books contained numerous practice questions, for study and for the exams, and the more questions you can use to learn the material the better off you will be in preparation for the actual tests. The only complaint I have for this book (the reason for 4 stars) is that it condenses most of its information into textual descriptions rather than tables of items for direct comparison. I liked the A+ Training Guide due to its concise tables of data which allowed me to see the various comparisons of topic items such as microprocessors for example.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Essential System Administration, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Æleen Frisch Rating: 4/5 An excellent books for beginner Sys Admins. Chapters are arranged for easy reference and should be useful to any novice user having "root" authority:-)...
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Programming PHP Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe Rating: 5/5  It sure tries to teach you something but cannot achieve...As everyone mentioned before, it has countless errors and typos. But there is more than that. Book is out of focus. Examples makes no sense and not related to each other, which is very confusing. A piece of code here and other piece is there. Every example is coming out of nowhere. It doesn't have a project. So everytime different variables, situations. Like, in one example it uses Flintstones character names ($name=Fred, $name2 = fred etc.). Next example is subjects of a class (math, science, history, english etc.), on other one it uses very random strings like ("I like paris in november", "the key is in my pants")If you want to learn PHP, stick with "PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition" By Luke Welling, Laura Thompson.
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