Comptia Server+ [With CD ROM]

This book has some very good information in it. I am glad I ordered it.

This book is very in-depth and provides you with the information needed to pass the Server+ Exam. I've never had any issues with any of the Exam Cram products.

This book is a great study resource for the new Server+ Exam. I recommend it to anyone looking to take the test who needs a great study resource!!

My exam tested memory types/specs as well as SCSI and SAN technologies very heavily, which this book does an excellent job of covering. There were many other questions this guide covered very little or not at all. For example, the exam tests on fire suppression technologies, something that is not even mentioned in this guide. I got a 732 out of 900. This is pretty much the only unofficial SK0-002 study guide out there for Server+ right now, so the only way you could get a more complete guide is to buy the official self-study materials from CompTIA. This guide is probably your best bet for value.

Exam Crams are always useful and go into sufficient depth provided that you have a good grounding in the technology behind the Exam Topics. At this time apart from courses and "googleing" the net this is the only collected study guide I know of for the Server+ 2005 Exam....more to follow no doubt? If you have a couple of years under your belt with servers I'd say that this guide will get you through. If not you really need a bit more backround reading. Hewlett Packard do a number of online and downloadable courses. Their technologies relate quite a bit to the Server+ exam objectives and they also have a book HP Proliant Servers AIS study guide ISBN 0131467174 and available from this site. This may help to fill in the gaps. I would also presume that you had taken and passed CompTIA's A+ exam and either CompTIA's Network+ or Prosofts TIA Convergence Technology Professional or at least the first exam in Cisco's CCNA qualification (Exam #640-821). Again all the study books and sources are availble from this web site. PC architecture and network related matters are really a must for Server+. I have also found that as a supplement to Server+ and complimentary are the SNIA SCP (#S10-100) and SCSE (#S10-200) Storeage Area Network exams and qualifications. Their site www.snia.org has a mass of information on matters that the Server+ exam is heavy on i.e SCSI and backups and their are several recommended books available again on this site. On the whole if you are familiar with the Exam Cram 2 format then go ahead and cram, book the exam and pass, at the time of writing there are a number of Exam price "deals" to encourage you to take the exam and if you use the HP study stuff as well you should also be prepared for two cheap HP Exams for HP ASP and HP AIS Certifications as well not forgetting SNIA. The makings and start of a good career I think! Best of luck! *******Please Note This Edit***********on 23rd February 2006 The above reviewer like many others on technical books DID NOT read this cram properly. Fire surpression (Halon etc) is covered in this book page 476 and in index. I have the Official Course Books too and they cover that subject as much as this cram, little difference. One can understand the dissapointment of getting a low score in exams however a bad workman blames his tools and prehaps a little more attention to detail would have produced a better score and a more accurate review. A lesson for us all!