Novell's CNE Study Guide for NetWare 5.1 (with CD-ROM) [Hardcover]

David James Clarke IV (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0764547704 | ISBN-13: 978-0764547706

The only official CNE Exam guide and the only guide for NetWare 5.1! The most comprehensive tool for the Novell Courses 565, 570, 575, and 580 from best-selling author David James Clarke, IV.

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Novell NetWare remains a big power in corporate networking, which is why it pays to have a Novell certification on your résumé when you go looking for work. Novell's CNE Study Guide for NetWare 5.1 helps you prepare for the whole battery of Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) and Certified NetWare Associate (CNA) exams, and--with the exception of a gap or two you will need to fill in with supplementary documentation or your own experience--earns its cover price. Author David Clarke does a great job of explaining the Novell way of networking: he's eminently patient and obviously subscribes to the philosophy that it's better to explain too much than to assume too much. As a result of his careful approach to his subject, Clarke succeeds both in bringing Novell newcomers up to speed and in connecting new NetWare features--like Novell Storage Services (NSS) and Novell Certificate Server--to old pros' bodies of existing knowledge.

Readers can't expect this book or its companion CD-ROM, taken alone, to prepare them for the CNE tests. The exams are designed to fail people who have only academic (as opposed to hands-on) experience with NetWare, after all. But these learning materials do about as well as can be expected in preparing their readers. Clear prose, combined with helpful conceptual drawings and relevant screen shots, complement sample test questions (both in print and on the CD-ROM). It's a good combination of tutorial, reference, and test-prep material. --David Wall

Topics covered: The subjects Novell has said must be understood by people who wish to pass its battery of Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) tests, including those for courses 565, 570, 575, and 580. Essentially, this means everything about NetWare 5.1, including its installation, Internet support, network services, and relevant troubleshooting strategies.

From the Back Cover

Novell's CNE^® Study Guide for NetWare^® 5.1 Your Guide through the Jungle of CNE NetWare 5.1 Test Objectives David James Clarke's lively, authoritative Novell Study Guides have helped thousands of CNA^™ and CNE candidates like you navigate the complexities of NetWare. Now this legendary trainer presents an invaluable road map through the new CNE NetWare 5.1 core courses. Filled with exam-savvy tips, hands-on exercises, and practical examples, it's just what you need to learn the material, attain your certification — and succeed in the real world. Inside, You'll Find Thorough Coverage of Courses 570, 575, 580, and 565

• NetWare 5.1 installation, IP services, and Internet infrastructure
• Advanced server, NDS, and security management, plus optimization
• NDS preparation and tree design
• NDS partitioning and time synchronization design, plus implementation
• Troubleshooting fundamentals and tools
• Troubleshooting NICs, hard drives, workstations, printers, and network fitness
• Network elements and the OSI model
• The Communications, Middle Layers, and Top Layers of the OSI model

2 CD-ROMS Included

• 3-user version of NetWare 5.1 Server
• NetWare 5.1 client software

System Requirements: Windows 95/NT workstation, 48MB hard disk space, NetWare 4.11 Server (Service Pack with 5b applied.) Watch for Future Updates www.hungryminds.com/novell

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764547704
• ISBN-13: 978-0764547706
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.2 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,820,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed - -, October 11, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Novell's CNE Study Guide for NetWare 5.1 (with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)

After passing NetWare Administration 5.1 using the companion CNA 5.1 book as my primary study resource, I was hoping for a similar experience with this book. I am finding that while the CNE 5.1 book does cover much of the material for the remainder of the CNE examinations, it is a bit light in some critical areas. I have expanded my studies with another CNE series from Novell Press, a set of third party CBT's, and even broke down and took the official Advanced Administration 5.1 course. I'm not at all certain that I would have passed Advanced Admin or NDS Design if I had trusted just this book to get me prepared.

My other frustration is that for a new book, it does not attempt to cover the latest version of the NDS Design and Implementation test or the Service and Support exam. Why not? The latest tests have been out there for a while. Like the CNA book, I get the feeling that this book is a slight re-write of the previous 5.0 version and was rushed to publication without attempting to cover everything in the most current versions of these exams.

While I still find this book valuable for CNE test preparation, I do not feel comfortable using it as the main resource for my studies. It certainly is a good secondary resource.

All I have left for my CNE certification is Service and Support and an elective. I will definitely keep using this book to help prepare for S&S, but I am already lining up other resources to fill in the anticipated gaps.

I hope when this book gets updated for Netware 6, the publisher will allow the author to take the time to provide a comprehensive text for those of us who prefer the relaxed pace and flexibility of self study over the shotgun (boom, here it is, we're done) authorized courses - and make certain that all of the objectives from the most recent courses and exams at that time are covered in depth. Perhaps it is time to break this book up into more than one volume to allow room for the needed detail.

BTW, lose the crossword puzzles and the word searches at the end of the chapters. They are next to worthless in helping to make the information stick and pretty much a waste of time. How about putting that effort into a set of sample test questions on one of the companion CD's?

Again, all in all, this is a good book, but for me, it just isn't enough to make me feel totally prepared for the tests.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy way to pass, August 20, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Novell's CNE Study Guide for NetWare 5.1 (with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)

Novell's CNE Study Guide for NetWare 5.1 really hits the mark. It contains all the information needed to pass the Novell exams. Just by reading this book I was able to pass each required exam in an average of two weeks. I thought the chapters on NDS especially hit the mark. It is a tremendous value considering it covers 4 exams for the price of 1 text.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An incomplete work by Clarke., April 17, 2002

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Jack L. Bolsen (Norfolk, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Novell's CNE Study Guide for NetWare 5.1 (with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)

Having learned most of what I know about Netware 4.11 from Clarke's books, I took a leap and bought both the admin and CNE books that he authored for Netware 5.1. I was disappointed. The books lack the anecdotes that break up the monotonous material, and it's evident that Clarke wasn't enthused with writing this book.

Much of the material isn't fully explained. For instance, in the Advanced Administration section, Clarke mentions subordinate reference partitions, but doesn't go on to explain what a subordinate reference is. His explanation of b-trees for NSS volumes is likewise lacking. It could be summed up as a replacement for FAT that allows the volume to mount faster, but instead he concentrates on explaining it's heirarchical properties, losing the reader in the process. A full 100 pages of information new to Netware 5.1 was lost upon me for this very reason.

But in the absense of other study materials for Netware 5.1, you probably don't have much choice but to buy this book if your aim is to obtain a CNE via self-study. If you can get your hands on the Exam Cram books, I highly recommend them as a supplement (good luck getting the exam cram for Advanced Admin, which is out of print). If you use Transcender exams in conjuntion with these books and set up a netware 5.1 server to practice with, you should have absolutely no problem passing the tests. But don't depend on this book alone, because it probably won't suffice.