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Network+ Certification Passport, Second Edition (Mike Meyers' Certification Passport)

Brian Schwarz, Glen E. Clarke, Michael Meyers

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Excellent review for the Network+ exam 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book does what it is meant to do ... that is prepare you to take the CompTIA Network+ exam. It is not the text to learn everything you want to know about networking. There are other books that are much thicker and more comprehensive that will do that for you. As with the other Mike Meyers books, this is the "Reader's Digest" or "Cliff notes" version of the material. It is the last book you read before taking the exam. It pulls the material together very well, is excellently organized and easy to study. The self test on CD the best available and maps extremely well with the real test. After using Mike Meyers, the exam was a slam dunk.

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Map out your success with help from this compact bundle of expertise. Series editor Mike Meyers, the industry expert on professional certification, brings you this concise, affordable, and portable study tool for the Network+ exam. With an intensive focus on only what you need to know to pass this exam plus practice exam software on CD, this Certification Passport is your ticket to success on exam day.

MCITP SQL Server 2005 Database Administration All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-431, 70-443, & 70-444) (All-in-One)

Darril Gibson

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All-in-One is All You Need

Get complete coverage of all three Microsoft Certified IT Professional database administration exams for SQL Server 2005 in this comprehensive volume. Written by a SQL Server expert and MCITP, this definitive exam guide features learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice questions, and in-depth explanations. Detailed and authoritative, the book serves as both a complete certification study guide and an essential on-the-job reference.

Get full details on all exam topics including how to:

• Install and configure SQL Server 2005
• Use Transact-SQL
• Manage server infrastructure design
• Optimize databases
• Secure databases and servers
• Ensure high availability
• Implement backup and recovery strategies
• Maximize the built-in administration tools
• Use Business Intelligence tools, including SSIS and SSRS
• Manage concurrency

The CD-ROM features:

• Six full practice exams--two for each exam: 70-431, 70-443, and 70-444
• Scripts from the step-by-step exercises in the book
• Video training clips from the author
• Complete electronic book

3G Wireless Networks, Second Edition

Clint Smith

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A Review From A Wireless Capacity Planning Mgr.'s Perspectiv 4 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.

I thought this book gives an excellent overview at the 10,000 foot level of all the related technologies. It's perfect for someone in either a Technical Manager or a Senior Manager role to understand the basic vibe of what these technologies are and how they work without getting bogged down into too much "bits and bytes" level detail.

I found the book to be a bit lacking on some dimensioning and planning details and methodologies though.

Overall, it's a good book to reference with.

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Fully up-to-date coverage of the inner-workings of 3G

This revised and updated edition of 3G Wireless Networks covers the changes taking place within the arena of 3G--the wireless technology that enables voice, full-featured video, CD-quality sound, and Web browsing anywhere in the world. The book covers key standards and protocols and the critical issues of compatibility, internetworking, and voice/data convergence. You will learn how to successfully design and integrate WCDMA/UMTS, CDMA2000, and SCDMA into existing cellular/PCS networks.

 

CWNA Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide (Exam PW0-100), Fourth Edition (Certification Press)

Tom Carpenter, Barrett

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The only official study guide for CWNA Exam PW0-100

Fully authorized by the exam developers at the CWNP program, this comprehensive study guide thoroughly covers all the topics on the CWNA certification exam. Work at your own pace through a system of lessons, scenarios, and review questions to learn the material quickly and easily.

CWNA Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide will help you prepare for the exam by showing you, step-by-step, how to implement, troubleshoot, and maintain wireless LANs. Get the only study guide endorsed by the creators of the CWNA exam and start your career as an expert wireless network administrator.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning:

• Wireless Standards, Organizations, and Applications
• Radio Frequency and Antenna Fundamentals
• Spread Spectrum Technologies
• IEEE 802.11
• WLAN Design Models, Topologies, and Infrastructure
• Site Surveying and Network Planning
• Infrastructure and Client Hardware and Software
• Security
• Troubleshooting

Complete Exam Coverage

• Comprehensive details on all CWNA exam objectives
• Review questions modeled after the real exam
• Helpful chapter summaries and key term lists
• Vendor-neutral coverage of wireless technologies and equipment

Linksys Networks: The Official Guide, Third Edition

Walter Glenn

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A great how-to networking guide 4 out of 5 stars.
29 of 29 people found this review helpful.

This is very much a how-to book. There is little on network principles. The other side of that is it misses little in how to install, bring to life, and manage a home network. If you have Linksys hardware, you'll find the content directly addresses your needs; yet, despite its name, the book is not that Linksys specific.

Glenn covers four topics especially well: network security, resource sharing, tips and troubleshooting, and advanced network tools. The latter, in an appendix, presents Windows graphical and command-line network tools. It makes Windows XP network diagnostic tools available to just about anyone, even those with no technical exposure to networking.

If you just want the practical details on how to set up a wired or wireless network, you would probably give Linksys Networks five stars. I wanted more on principles.

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Build a wired or wireless Linksys network in your home or office easily with help from this one-stop guide. Inside, you�ll find details on selecting the right hardware and components for your needs, installing your network, connecting to the Internet, implementing security measures, and troubleshooting. Then you�ll learn how easy it is to share resources between computers including high-speed Internet access, data, music, games, and much more.

CWSP Certified Wireless Security Professional Official Study Guide (Exam PW0-200), Second Edition

Tom Carpenter, Grant Moerschel, Richard Dreger

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Used CWSP study guide - passed exam this week 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I am currently pushing forward in the Security Arean and getting a grasp at a deep technical level of the challenges faced by Security Professionals. With this in mind it would be a mistake not to take a look at wireless and understand the ramifications for implementing it in an organization. Even for a home user a fundamental understanding of WEP verus WPA versus WPA2 is recommended and to understand the ramifications for buying a wireless client that only supports WEP or even no security mechanism at all.

With all the above said, I wanted to study for CWSP and purchased the study guide and learn at a deep technical level wireless security issues. I think its unfair to only label this book a study guide - I have passed the exam and will reference this book many times as I progress in my career. I have other certifications and generally end up throwing the study guides away because they were so focussed on getting me through an exam versus teaching me the entire subject matter arena they are of little use to me afterwards unless I require a door wedge.

I strongly recommend this book not only to those studying for CWSP, or even evaluating whether they want to put the time into passing the exam and see the material they need to digest, but also to those people in the field challenged with supporting wireless infrastructures. I also recommend the book to home users that might be concerned about the possibilities of sharing their Cable Modem or DSL connections with unathorized neighbors or war drivers because they want to buy a wireless router to have the freedom in their homes to use their internet connection anywhere.

The book compliments the certification in quality and accuracy.

David Breslin
CWNA, CWSP, MCSD, MCAD, MCDBA, MCSA, CHP, CHSS, CEH, Linux+, MOS Master

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The ONLY official study guide for the industry-standard wireless security certification exam

Cowritten by the creators of the exam and leading experts in wireless security, CWSP Certified Wireless Security Professional Official Study Guide, Second Edition, offers complete coverage of all the objectives for the vendor-neutral wireless network certification that focuses on the technologies behind the brands. The fully integrated study system includes notes that reinforce and teach practical skills, step-by-step exercises, chapter self-tests, and more than 150 practice exam questions.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Stored Procedure Programming in T-SQL & .NET

Dejan Sunderic

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Create and Use Stored Procedures for Optimal Database Performance

Develop complex stored procedures to retrieve, manipulate, update, and delete data. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Stored Procedure Programming in T-SQL & .NET identifies and describes the key concepts, techniques, and best practices you need to master in order to take full advantage of stored procedures using SQL Server's native Transact-SQL and .NET CLR languages. You'll learn to incorporate effective Transact-SQL stored procedures into client or middleware code, and produce CLR methods that will be compiled into CLR stored procedures. This is a must-have resource for all SQL Server 2005 developers.

Essential Skills for Database Professionals

• Group and execute T-SQL statements using batches, scripts, and transactions
• Create user-defined, system, extended, temporary, global temporary, and remote stored procedures
• Develop and manage stored procedures using C# and Visual Basic .NET
• Implement database access using ADO.NET
• Create CLR user-defined functions and triggers
• Implement reliable debugging and error handling techniques and security measures
• Manage source code in a repository such as Visual SourceSafe
• Create stored procedures for web search engines
• Use system and extended stored procedures to interact with the SQL Server environment

CRCP Crystal Reports Certified Professional All-in-One

Annette Harper

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All you need to be CRCP Certified 5 out of 5 stars.
44 of 44 people found this review helpful.

This textbook contains everything the reader will need to gain Crystal Reports Certified Professional (CRCP) certification.

I used the textbook to take all three exams, and passed them all within twelve weeks. The only other source of information I used was the on-line documentation provided with the product (and I used that as a secondary reference only). Note that I did not take any education courses from Business Objects or third-party providers--this book was my sole information source, and it guided me to high scores on all three exams. I also became a much better Crystal Reports developer in the process.

The writing is exceptionally clear and free of all the techno-babble that clutters up so many other texts. This book is clear, easy to read, and structured perfectly. Not only that, but the examples are exceptional and applicable.

In addition to guiding the reader through the certification material, the text will thereafter continue to serve as a valuable reference for Crystal development.

Highly recommended--this is the Crystal Reports book that nobody should be without.

NOTE: Now that Business Objects has revised their CRCP examinations you might be wondering if this text would still be useful. The unqualified answer is YES. The two exams for XI are nearly identical to the three exams for version 10, except all of the Business Views components have been removed.

For XI certification, you still use this text. Just i) skip the Business Views parts (skip chapters 27, 28, 29)--as that software component has been dropped; ii) focus on the SQL components elective (chapter 22); and iii) skim the other elective sections (chapters 23, 24)--as there are no longer elective test tracks. Do this and you will still find this text the definitive preparation material for the CRCP exams.

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All-in-One is all you need! This authoritative reference offers complete coverage of all material on all three Crystal Reports Certified Professional exams, including content for each of the three electives. You’ll find exam objectives at the beginning of each chapter, helpful exam tips, and end-of-chapter practice questions. The bonus CD-ROM contains a testing engine with questions found only on the CD. This comprehensive guide not only helps you pass the challenging CRCP exam, but will also serve as an invaluable on-the-job reference.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005: A Beginner''s Guide (Beginner's Guide (Osborne Mcgraw Hill))

Dusan Petkovic

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Poor rewrite of old book, "old" version of SQL Server 2005 1 out of 5 stars.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful.

Looking for a book to use as a training guide. First of all, this book was written using a BETA version of SQL Server 2005. Many areas changed from beta to full release of SQL Server 2005, therefore already a big worry about this book. Secondly, for a beginners book to only talk about installing SQL Server in Chapter 16 (part III of the book!!!) is poor and shows a book thrown together in my opinion. It looks as if this is an update of his previous book (?) where there is text clearly about SQL Server 2000 with an "add on" sentence saying how SQL Server 2005 has changed this. For beginners this is confusing. They dont care about SQL Server 2000 or if they did they would buy a SQL Server 20005 Beginners Guide.
Other examples are where the author gets quite technical but then new functionality (such as the APPLY operator) "is outside the scope of this book". However deep security areas that are discsussed are "inside" the scope of this book.
I would recommend you either wait for the rewrite or even better, update of this book that uses the correct version of SQL Server 2005, or look elsewhere. I sent this book straight back. Sorry

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It's been five years since Microsoft released a new version of SQL Server—which holds 39% of the Windows database market—and the latest edition of this bestselling beginner's guide gets users up and running on SQL Server 2005. The book covers database concepts, and discusses key topics for new users including the SQL Server Workbench,T-SQL, automated administration tasks, security, and analysis.

MCTS SQL Server 2005 Implementation & Maintenance Study Guide (Exam 70-431)

Tom Carpenter

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The Best Fully Integrated Study System Available

With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, MCTS SQL Server 2005 Implementation & Maintenance Study Guide covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam.

• 100% complete coverage of all official objectives for Exam 70-431
• Exam Readiness Checklist at the front of the book--you're ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked off
• Inside the Exam sections in every chapter highlight key exam topics covered
• Simulated exam questions match the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam

Covers all the exam topics, including:

Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2005 * Creating Databases and Database Objects * SQL Server Security * Creating Views, Partitions, and Linked Servers * Transact-SQL Programming * Working with Constraints, Triggers, and Stored Procedures * Backup and Restore of SQL Server with SQL Agent Jobs * Data Redundancy and Availability * Using the Service Broker * XML Data Support * SQL Server Performance Monitoring and Tuning * Troubleshooting Server and Database Errors

CD-ROM includes:

• Complete MasterExam practice testing engine, featuring: One full practice exam; Detailed answers with explanations; Score Report performance assessment tool
• Video training clips from the author
• Electronic book for studying on the go

With free online registration:

• One-hour LearnKey video training session
• Bonus downloadable MasterExam practice test