The Complete Guide to Servers and Server+

Pros:This book is good for when your class requires it. It's also cheap.Cons:You don't learn much. It holds your hand through everything, so unless you repeat the process and memorize through rote, you don't learn squat. Rather than teaching WHY you should do something, this book just says "click this button" then "click that button"... I'd rather see something that stimulates a little bit of thought.

This was a required book for my class (Fall 2013) and obviously is pretty out of date with current technology. The processors section talks about dual core is starting to come into the market and quad core is the future. I'm typing this on my quad core cell phone.All said, it is a really easy book to read. It is pretty informal language, and would be great for someone inexperienced with hardware to learn.

Bought for class. Item as described.5 stars isn't about the content, but about the book arriving when it was supposed to and being the one pictured/undamaged.

i love it

okay

Good but old

I find this book TOO EXPENSIVE $102.95 for the vague information regarding the server+ exam. The book focus TOO MUCH on the hardware part of the Server and what you need to know. I find annoying that the author keeps referring to his The A+ Guide to Operating Systems on many of his chapters for more information. Moreover, this book is full of grammatical errors, one very notable is the acronym for AMD American Micro Devices instead of Advance Micro Devices. Furthermore, chapter review questions has so many mistakes as well. You can find the answers in the back of the book but some are wrong or dubious and on some questions the answer doesn't seem to be in the chapter that you are reading or the author neglected to mention it. This book is not intended for CompTIA Server+ exam, even though CompTIA endorses this book. This book is more oriented to the newbie on Server hardware above all. Finally, the book does not follow in order the CompTIA Server+ guide, it jumps from chapter to chapter and that kind of throws you off. I recommend you the Server+ Bible from Trevor Kay,it might be an old edition, but i'll prepare you more for the Server+ exam.

I too have just completed the Server+ exam, the previous day, and like the other reviewer I also thoroughly agree, there was considerable information on the exam that was not covered at all in this book. Things like NAS/SAN, iSCSI/FCIP, fibre channel and service tools. Plus, although the author did touch on UPS's, there were questions asked that he did not cover and subsequently were not represented in this book.What I really find galling though in light of past publications that this individual has written (A+ and Network+ to name a couple) is the numerous grammatical and or missing words I came across while reading this book. We have all heard of Intel but why was AMD called American Micro Devices and not Advanced as it should be? Clearly, either this tome was rushed into publication and the publisher didn't bother or had a rather piss poor proofreader in looking over this book. Consequently, I'd be hard pressed to want to use a future write from this author and/or use this publisher again (Thomson).It's clear, DO NOT EXPECT TO PASS THE EXAM IF THIS IS THE ONLY PUB YOU PLAN TO USE. Previous hands on experience working with servers is very much going to be in one's favour!