Network +: Test Yourself Practice Exams [Paperback]

Inc. Syngress Media (Editor), Jeffrey Ferris (Contributor)

Book Description

Series: Certification | Publication Date: May 24, 1999

A supplement to the "Network+ Certification Study Guide", providing more than 1000 questions for readers to practice. There are practice questions for all the examination objectives, along with answers to check the reader's skill and make sure they know what they need to before exam day. There are also notes and tips on taking the exam. The workbook should be useful for A+ technicians looking to upgrade their current certification as well as those who are making steps towards a Microsoft credential.

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From the Back Cover

Don't Let the Real Test Be Your First Test! MORE QUESTIONS - MORE CONTENT: THE BEST SELF-TESTING PROGRAM AVAILABLE. Based on CompTIA's new Network+ exam. Covers all official Network+ exam objectives. Comprehensive coverage features more than 1,000 challenging and realistic practice exam questions. Special "How to Take the Exam" section is designed to give you an advantage. "Exam Watch" warnings point out the trickiest exam questions and teach you what you need to know to get them right (as shown in example below). You don't have to memorize the entire TCP/IP Port Numbers chart for the exam. The most popular, and therefore most likely, exam choices to remember are the FTP ports (20 and 21), SMTP port (25), and HTTP port (80). Put your skills to the test using this comprehensive and current self-testing guide for Network+ candidates! This easy-to-use, self-paced book features more than 1,000 exam-based practice questions to test your knowledge - and richly detailed, instructive answers from the experts to expand your understanding. Best of all, the book is based directly on CompTIA's Network+ exam, so it contains the most relevant, up-to-date Q&A material - guaranteed. Highly effective when used alone, or as the ideal companion to Network+ Certification Study Guide, also from Osborne, this book is an excellent preparation took for serious Network+ candidates.

About the Author

Syngress Media, Inc. (Rockland, MA) is an independent company committed to creating the very best book, software and Internet based exam preparation tools. They have published over 20 certification study guides and over a dozen Personal Testing Centers. All of these products are created by leading content experts, many of whom are also full-time trainers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media (May 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072120290
• ISBN-13: 978-0072120295
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,766,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money like I did!, December 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Network +: Test Yourself Practice Exams (Paperback)

This book deserves less than a 1 star rating, if it were only available!

The CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam is supposed to be as vendor neutral as possible, while still recognizing the three major network operating systems. The authors of this Practice Exam book write the majority of their questions from the NT4 MCSE approach to networking. Even then, the questions were often confusing and misleading. The majority of their specific questions or their specific subjects do not even appear on the CompTIA exam.

This book was the low point in my preparation for the exam (which I passed quite easily using other study resources). The companion Syngress study book was a bit better, but contained several glaring errors. I checked their web site for errata, but found little in the way of help to help deal with the differences between this book and the other study aids I used.

In my opinion, the best books to prepare for the Network+ exam are the Network+ Exam Prep and Cram and the Network+ Certification for Dummies book. Even these have a few errors (but accurate errata are available on the web for the exam prep and cram), and they tend to go into greater depth than what is required to pass the exam, but if you really want to know your stuff in addition to having a CompTIA Network+ certificate to hang on your wall, these are the three books to have!

I wish I could get a refund on this book. It was useless in preparing for the actual test.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Book is over kill, October 26, 1999

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Carl V. Crespo (ANAHEIM, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Network +: Test Yourself Practice Exams (Paperback)

The book is actually well done, but; its like using a big hammer (BIG BIG hammer) to kill a very small (very very small) bug. It was written at an MCSE level. In fact it helped me pass my MCSE Network Essentials exam (but almost useless for my Network+ exam). I using part of it to prepare for the MCSE TCP/IP exam (it has a lot of good stuff). I'm very happy with the book. However I pity the poor soul using using it to pass the Network+.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Network+ Certification Test Yourself Practice Exams, February 18, 2000

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felix26_99 (San Jose, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Network +: Test Yourself Practice Exams (Paperback)

This book mostly provides practice exams. It provides a few hints about the test format, but mainly says that the test is very difficult.

The practice exams are much more difficult than the ones in the New Riders Network+ guide but lack very much diagnostic value. The answers do not tell you which section of the test you need to concentrate on. For example, if I got question 7 on the practice test wrong is that from Section I.1.5 of the Network+ test or Section II.3.6?

The book needs to be a lot more user friendly.