Customer Reviews

Sun Certified Solaris(tm) 9 System and Network Administrator All-in-One Exam Guide

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I bought this book and the Tim Gibbs book. Both are very good certification books with many, many test questions. Of course these authors are not going to reprint the exact test questions - that would be against copyright. ...

I just bought two books in the All-In-One series - this one and the CISSP book - and they are just great. This one covers most of the topics in good detail for the sysadmin and net admin exams. I didn't give it 5 stars because I would have liked a bigger section for net admin. But the new exams have been "dumbed down" so much that maybe it's OK.

And before any M$ bigots jump in with more trashy comments on UNIX - save your breath for the .NET server release (I'm still holding).

I'm currently studying for the System Administrator exam and I found this book to be very useful indeed. It covers all of the main topics listed in the exam requirements, but sometimes you have to dig to find them (why do publishers always have poor indexing). I've been reading the Sun manuals - and they're too long and too verbose. Watters cuts through the ...and explains concepts very clearly usually with one or more worked examples. I like the format and the hardcover is very durable - many of my other computer books just end up falling apart.

This book is definitely not for beginners, and has many inaccuracies throughout. I have personally found numberous facts throughout the book that I have proven wrong on many levels and by many people. If you are looking for a refresher about the Solaris OS, then by all means read away. However, if you are looking to study for and pass the certification tests, then look elsewhere. Also, the book covers many topics that have no relevance to the tests themselves. Such as....
1) LDAP is not a network admin. cert. topic it is a system admin. cert. topic
2) ATM is not anywhere in the Sun objectives or test
3) 10BASE2 is 10Mbps not 2Mbps
and the list goes on and on.......

The book was very disappointing from a testing point of view.

For example the book did not cover printing which is on the first test.

I also found a lot of typos.

But most disappointing was the errors-misprints in the test exams which is a huge no-no.

I also went to thier website and found no errata for the book.

Very bad !!

I don't recommend this book.

When I started to read this book, I enjoyed some topics even Sun's official text books for certificates don't cover. However, I assume most of people bought this book for the certificate exams because of the title of this book. In that case, I doubt how serious the author took the responsibility for such readers.

1)The title is misleading readers. It sounds like this book is dedicated for the three exams for Solaris 9. However, they don't cover all of the topic for the exam. The book talks other topics like LDAP or Telnet. If the title is nothing to do with the exam. This book is okay.
2)There are too many typo in this book. As a published book users pay $70.00, this publisher and author didn't take their responsibility.

I gave 1 star because I believe the book should be totally revised to meet the readers' satisfaction. (For me, three to five stars are to evaluate range of quality of content a book provides readers; how much the content and the quality meets the readers' requirement or balance of the quality and the price. One to two stars are for books readers felt wasted money.)

I passed all of the SCSA and SCNA exams without problem because I took the Sun Solaris courses at school and had the text books from Sun Microsystems. I also had access to Sun eLearning on their Web site. I studied hard. I'm very positive that I wouldn't passed the exam if I focused on this book.

The book may be helpful for knowledgeable people looking for a refresher and practice tests, but those looking for a helpful study guide will fail miserably. There text is rife with context errors and just plain wrong information. If you do get it, make sure you read the actual manual pages for the commands he covers, because the parts that claim you need to know this information for the exam, half the time the information is wrong.

If you use this book to study for the second Sun Solaris Certified Administrators exam you are likely to fail the exam. I used this book instead of exam cram and the book did not cover the majority of the questions that I saw on the exam.

This book is simply a waste of money. Buy exam cram if you require concise and accurate treatment of the part 2 exam topics. I learned my lesson the hard way.

Do not purchase this book if you are serious about passing exams on the first try.

THis is a very inferior product!!!

If you're looking for a book to help you study for the exam, skip this book. It covers topics not on the exam, and doesn't cover topics that are on the exam. However, if you want to set up an e-commerce server, or a web server, then this is the book to purchase. Usually, you get a CD with an exam prep book. This CD is a verbatim copy of the questions at the end of each chapter, so the CD is worthless, in my estimation. If you want to study for the exam, buy the Exam Cram, and maybe the Syngress certification book. Also, buy a good exam practice test. I found this book to be not helpful for exam study at all. But, if you want to setup a webserver, this book is good. Lots of errors, too, so double check your facts before you deploy.

The title implies that this book is an "Exam Guide" for Sun's
Solaris 9 certification tests. As such it was a complete waste
of money.

It contains many topics which are not on the exams (I've taken
the first two so far) and does not cover other topics that are on
the exams. I noticed so many typos and wrong information in Part
I (the first exam) that I seriously doubted that anyone proof-
read this before publishing it. The author clearly does not have
an understanding of Solaris at an expert level, nor does he have
a clue as to what is really on the exams.

If I hadn't expensed this I'd be really angry. Shame on McGraw-
Hill/Osborne for publishing this garbage and Paul A. Watters for
not doing his research.