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Title: A+ Certification Kit by David Groth, Dan Newland ISBN: 0-7821-2805-X Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $79.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.19 (21 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Missed Its Target Audience
Comment: My first thoughts when reading these two A+ study guides were, "Are the A+ exams really going to be this superficial?" (They weren't.) It's as though the books was targeted to an "Introduction to PCs" adult education class, rather than serious PC technicians. My second thoughts -- especially while reading the DOS/Windows guide -- were, "Why are there so many errors, especially in the sample questions?" Even so, the sample questions were the best parts of the guides. I ended up getting the Prep Technologies testing software to make sure of the level of test questions to expect. It was a worthwhile purchase (and some of the same questions were on my exams.) Shortly before I took the exams, I stumbled across the new Coriolus A+ Exam Prep book which is intended for the new A+ exams in July. Now THAT is a quality study guide! If you're expecting to take the new exams after they come out in July 98, definitely get the Coriolus book and skip the Groth books altogether. Besides being too supercial, they won't cover important new topics. Oh, yes, I passed the tests with 91 and 95, respectively.
Rating: 2
Summary: Collection of errors and mis-information
Comment: David Groth is an excellent writer and has produced a well written and informative study guide for both the hardware and operating system tests. However --
The CD-ROM that accompanies the text is just horrible. In the practice objective tests, of 150 questions in the first two sections, 42 gave the wrong answer!!! In many instances, the answer was in the form of "select all that apply" yet the software would only accept one selection.
Often the corrected answers were inconsistant with logic, such as the correct answers are "A" and "D" where "D" is "All of the above"!!
Many of the questions are poorly worded, with multiple interpretations available. Many times the multiple choice answers did not match the question at all.
Worst of all - the example tests did not match the CompTIA test. Of the hundreds of example questions in the book and on the CD-ROM, not one question matched the actual exam - or even came close.
Shop around - there are much better study guides available.
Rating: 2
Summary: Don't bother buying it
Comment: I took an A+ class and this was the book used. I wish I'd read the reviews here first. What a waste of money! I took the exam today and failed. I felt like I'd read the wrong book. Nothing I studied was on the exam except IRQs. Too bad the customer service questions don't count.
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Title: Network+ Certification Kit (With CD-ROM) by David Groth, Todd Lammle, William Tedder ISBN: 0782141358 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $139.98 |
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Title: A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 4th Edition by Michael Meyers ISBN: 0072222743 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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