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Title: CCA Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows Administrator Study Guide (Exam 70-220) by Ronald Oglesby, Inc. Syngress Media, Melissa Craft ISBN: 0-07-219319-0 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Book Has Some Worth But...
Comment: I passed 220 today. This book has some worth. It follows the Citrix Guidelines as outlined on citrix.com. However, this box is filled with typos. Questions at the end of the chapters have many errors. Portions of chapters seem to be talking about MetaFrame 1.8. Furthermore, there were some questions on the exam mentioning Citrix subsystems, which were nowhere in this book. I used this book and the PDF's from Citrix's web site. This book is good for granular details like how much hard drive space, RAM, and color resolution you need for MF components. If you have never used MF XP, you will not pass with this book. Furthermore, I would seriously check out the Sybex book to compare it with this before purchasing. This is OK as a reference but only if you have the experience with the product to identify all of the typos (and there are lots!)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough book and CD is a nice bonus
Comment: Wonderful book, although CD could have been more thorough, still, very, very good. And excellent customer support.
Rating: 3
Summary: Decent till the last few chapters, cd quite bad
Comment: In the process of reading it to prep for my certification test, I found multiple problems with it. You can still pass using this book, but the experience will not be pleasing.
I'll list them as best I can.
--Different chapters list different minimum requirements (DOS3.3 vs DOS4.0) for the same module.
--The last few chapters of the book have multiple errors in the self-test answer keys. They are obvious things like Right- A, C, D and Wrong- A, C, D or their descriptions a few pages back contradict the answers. At least one of the electronic practice test questions is the same way.
--After a few runs through the electronic practice test, it's painfully obvious that it is repeating the same questions in the same order every time, not grabbing fresh questions from the question pool for each run or installation. So far their tech support has not replied on this. (original email sent in second week of December)
-- The "Update" link provided in the enclosed software (for test 220) takes you to the publisher's web page for test 218. This page shows that there are no updates available, even though the CD came in a book for the next version of the test. I was unable to find any mention of the 220 test on their website.
---- these items are more aesthetic than technical, but contribute ----
---- to the overall dissatisfaction inspired by and in this book ----
--The wording and emphasis of the book does not match up to the actual test questions.
--The material covered, both in a chapter and overlapped between chapters is laid out in a stumbling and awkward way.
--The "drivetime" audio tracks on the included CD were read by an engineer, not proper audio talent. I found myself subconsciously tuning out the annoying voice.
--The quality (tone, volume and clarity) of the audio tracks was not consistent and one was quite bad.
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