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| Server+ Certification Bible | 
| Author: Trevor Kay
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (88 reviews)
Sales Rank: 236430
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 582
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0764548093
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
UPC: 785555076822
EAN: 9780764548093
ASIN: 0764548093
Publication Date: July 29, 2001
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Product Description
The Server+ Certification Bible is a combination of information drawn right from the Server+ test objectives. It focuses on subject matter mastery, complete with review questions to prepare you for the exam. Topics focus on vendor-neutral knowledge covering multiple server types, server installation procedures, configuration and upgrading, advanced hardware issues, proactive maintenance, network cabling and connecting, troubleshooting, SCSI, multiple CPU's and RAID and will addressed a level of knowledge above basic hardware issues. As with all books in the Certification Bible series, The Server+ Certification Bible relies on logical organization, practice, and real-world examples to facilitate learning beyond the exam. Covers: Exam SKO-001
Amazon.com Review
Lots of publishers rushed their books about the CompTIA Server+ certification to market. After all, it's a new certification and certification books tend to sell well. Trevor Kay and the team at Hungry Minds have taken care to put together a high-quality book. It'll get you up to speed on everything you'll need to understand before you can pass CompTIA's Server Hardware exam (SK0-001), and it's sufficiently detailed to serve as a reference as you put your certification to use on the job. Kay's approach to his subject is to use CompTIA's published outline of test coverage as his organizational guide, then elaborate on each of its points with lots of prose and a handful of illustrations. Like the Server+ exam itself, this book does not guarantee prompt obsolescence by going into detail about specific server makes and models. Rather, it focuses on the knowledge and practices that make up the system administrator's core skills. These include familiarity with widely used technologies like SCSI and TCP/IP, and knowledge of how to set up remote network management systems. Kay is fond of describing good practices in terms of general tasks that can easily be translated into platform-specific procedures in the machine room. Because it's a certification guide, this book includes pre- and post-tests (the latter with annotated answers) in each chapter. --David Wall Topics covered: The subjects covered by the CompTIA Server Hardware exam, including hardware planning, installation, configuration, modification, maintenance, and disaster recovery.
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Great write! August 11, 2008
This is book systematically written and clear. Excellent break down of concepts and topics. Very easy to understand. For those planning to pursue Server + certification, this book is a good buy. Please do not criticize the book if you do not pass the exam! Certifications require more research than what is found in any one book.
 OK but very dated May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has significant weaknesses - it was written in 2000-2001, it isn't well edited. There was no second edition to correct and refine the contents. I wouldn't use this book alone, but it might be a good companion to a CBT/video courses from CBTNuggets or TestOut.
It's apparent that the author had experience as a server technician, because the book covers a lot of material that might be helpful to someone starting as a server technician, but it isn't a substitute for experience.
Much of what the book covers is not required for the exam objectives and some of what it does have is poorly organized. It appears that the author tried to follow the sequence of exam objectives rather than trying to teach the subject as effectively as possible. As examples, the chapter on disaster planning precedes the material on fault tolerance and backup/restore. The chapters on physical environment and security come 300 pages after the Planning for Installation chapter.
The best way to use the book would be to think about what will happen if each item discussed is missing, broken or installed wrong, what symptoms that could produce,and how you'd go about fixing it.
The fact-based chapter assessment questions might lead you to think that the Server+exam is fact-based like the Network+ exam, but it isn't. It's mainly troubleshooting, and requires very careful reading of the exam questions which sometimes lead you to make assumptions, and look for you to choose a "best" answer that wouldn't be the right in real life. To pass the exam, understanding the books' answers to the Appendix B practice exam is more important than being able to answer the questions by rote or being able to do the job.
The included Boson CD practice exam was one of the features that persuaded me to buy this book, but it is so loaded with errors in the questions themselves and in it's explanations of the answers that it was less useful than the book. I wouldn't use this book alone, but it might be a good companion to a CBT/video courses from CBTNuggets or TestOut.
Good Study Guide but for the old exam June 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book became my primary study reference for the Server+ exam. It was inexpensive on the Amazon used market which compelled me to get it. Since I was an A+, N+, and Security + before starting this older edition I knew that the newer technologies were not given adequate coverage. I used this book with frequent web/wikipedia searches to successfully address the subject material. Only a few errors found. I recommend this book for experienced IT people. Less experienced folks should probably pay the extra money and get the current edition.
 This book is okay November 15, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book from cover to cover and found more then a fair share of errors. The one being that a 1U server is 1".
But when all was said and done I passed the SKO-002 Server+ test and the data base of 264 questions were helpful. I would not buy this book if your palanning on passing the test and have not study and passed the A+ and have networking under your belt. You won't
Lots of Inaccuracies December 5, 2004
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Failed Server+ today. I rarely fail tests and passed A+ easily a few weeks back. I've been supporting servers for over 10 years and paid very well for my expertise.
Book has tons of typos or just plain wrong info.
One huge mistake in book is that there's such a thing as 100BASE2!!!
Also, one question I failed on was about Magic Packets. They have to do with WOL (wake on LAN technology). I looked it up in book and they only thing close to it is what Trevor calls, "special" wake-up packet. There is no mention of a "Magic Packet" in the book.
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