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CNE Study Guide for Intranetware, Second Edition

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I am currently a CNE for Netware 3, I was needing to pass the Building Intranets test to upgrade my certification for Intranetware. This book gave a good overview, was easy to read and quick to learn from. The main problem with this book became painfully obvious after using CNE Quizzer 4.5 and failing a couple times that there is no way to pass this test using this book. The book lacked the fine details that Novell likes to test you on. I obtained my CNE certification in 9 1/2 weeks using mainly Novell course books. There is some irony in how I passed Building Intranets. After failing the test, I went to a book store to look up objectives that I missed. The irony is that I found a paperback study guide for intranetware published by the same company that published this book. This book was less expensive, more detailed had sections with questions, and a CD-Rom with a quizzer on it. In less than 15 minutes I found where I went wrong on the test and went back and kicked the test out with a 636 (passing score was 575). Although I did not buy this book, it looked like a good alternative to Novell books. From now on, I plan on using only Novell course material so I don't waste my time or money.

I bought the book originally because the organization and language seemed straightforward. Luckily I purchased a copy of CNE Quizzer 4.5 from Certify.com to pretest since the accompanying CD-ROM proved worthless. It was after doing the pretests that I became painfully aware that the book fell short in three very important areas:1) Terminology-Novell exams are very specific and the book isn't. 2) Detail-There just isn't enough detail on Object or File System Rights. 3)Examples\Case Studies-Very few review questions and no real case studies.

When I identified the failings of the study guide, I found myself referring back to the Novell Press IntranetWare Administrator's Handbook By Kelley Lindberg to fill in the gaps. Although it's not a study-guide, it was more valuable than the Moncur\Chellis book and has a permanent place in my crash kit.

If it wasn't for the CyberPass pretest and Lindberg's book, I would have failed the CNA test. It's sad that there aren't any better guides on the market-so at this point I'm fronting the money for actual courseware.

Sybex would be the only book I would suggest if you are taking a Microsoft test, I used them to obtain my MCSE, however for Novell tests they just don't cover enough information to pass the test. This book is way to expensive and I would suggest buying the Novell Press books.

Unlike other study guides, this book is much better laid out and attempts to present information in a logical manner. However, there are many issues missing and certain sections that should be heavily emphasized for the test (the design and implemenation steps) are merely mentioned. If you know nothing, read this book and take a test you will fail.

Needs much more detailed info and examples. The sample questions are nothing like the actual test questions. The CD is pretty much freeware stuff. Whole test sections and questions are missing (ex. there is nothing on client migration strategy or partitioning examples)

Unfortunately as a whole it's just another of the countless lack-luster CNE study guides with better than average layout...can't ANYBODY make a decent CNE study guide? Maybe the people writing these books should spend a little more time implementing NetWare networks and less time writing books. I find it hard to believe the authors really modeled this book for the exam preparation.

After trying to take the tests for CNE: Administration and CNE: Advanced Administration, I am of the opinion that this book is not the ideal choice. The exam questions are very picky about language, and you would do better to have official Novell brand material to study from. This book does a decent job of hitting the highlights, but an official Novell student manual would be more helpful and would help the reader avoid having to guess what Novell meant. It's sort of like having a study guide for the King James Bible vs. the NIV Bible and having the exam be on one specific version. This is my opinion after having thoroughly read this book.