5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
If you're a 4.x CNE, buy it, September 2, 1999
This review is from: Novell's CNE® Update to NetWare® 5 Study Guide (Paperback)
Just finished another winner from Mr. Clarke. If you're a 4.x CNE, use this book for test 529. Add to that Novell's docs and either CNEQUIZER or the EXAM CRAM book (plus NetWare 5 practice) and you're good to go. I give it only 4 stars because of some irritating typos. You can get the concepts from Novell's docs, but Clarke shows you how to implement features in the real world.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Novell's Cne Update to Netware 5 Study Guide, April 25, 2000
This review is from: Novell's CNE® Update to NetWare® 5 Study Guide (Paperback)
This book is very poorly written for the type of audience it is intended for - existing CNE's. If you're looking for a book filled with important technical information, this is NOT the one. In addition to all the "fluff" there are numerous mistakes throughout the book - in both the text and labs. It's obvious that the author did not check to see if the labs would work properly. Don't bother with this one - it's not worth the time or the money.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enough to pass, but...., February 29, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Novell's CNE® Update to NetWare® 5 Study Guide (Paperback)
I actually loved Clarke's CNE Study Guide for NetWare 3. Helped me earn my first CNE with high scores. Further down the road, his IntranetWare Study Guide was also excellent, but by the time I started using that book I was skipping the cute stories and just delving into the hard facts which were abundant. Both of these books still hold a prominent spot on my reference shelf (and have been used more than occasionally). Then came this book. Does it hold the information you need to pass the exam? I think so. If you can work your way past the mistakes as previously mentioned. Using IP when you mean IPX is more than a typo, that is a mistake. Repeat that same mistake several times in the book and it becomes a serious problem.
The cute stories are getting very, very old. By the time a person is working on their second (or greater) CNE, they can handle the hard facts and the techno-jargon. I would much rather have more comparing/contrasting between NetWare 5 and previous versions, and less fluff. My other major gripe is the book and exam seem to just barely skim the surface on such critical items as SLP, Compatibility mode, etc; while devoting far too much time to the Netscape server and Java(let me stress, the book covers enough to prepare you for the exam, but little more). I simply don't see this book being handy as a day to day reference.
In summary: Clarke lost one star for mistakes; one for fluff; and he gets no bonus stars for post-exam usefulness. Final score: 3 stars.
Facts: Pre-exam experience includes: ZENWorks; some NetWare 5; the DHCP portion of DNS/DHCP. No experience with NetWare 5's: Java, Netscape server, DNS, or NSS. I had recently attended a seminar on NDPS, but had no experience with it.
C. Meyer (MCNE, MCSE, CNE3/IW/5)
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