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Title: CIW Foundations for Dummies by Sharon Roark, Tom Devine ISBN: 0-7645-1635-3 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Web designer + this book = passing score (87%)
Comment: I'm a self-taught web designer/developer/programmer -- I have too many titles, I guess. I've been developing websites and multimedia for 5 years, and this was the first time I took to get a certification (cheap employer wouldn't ante up for training). ...
I read this book in about 3-4 days combined time and learned quite a bit about things I already new a little about with regards to networking fundamentals (part III of the book). I do a lot of default technical support in my office as the computer nerd, but this section really helped explain some things that I'd never really taken time to learn about networking.
The HTML fundamentals section (part II) is the easiest section to get through, regardless of experience. It's also the least important of the 3 sections in the certification exam. Don't speed loads of time on this section.
The Internet fundamentals (part I) section was pretty decent, and it highlighted a lot of the networking information you'll learn in the third portion of the book. This section was most annoying because I learned that the people who run the CIW certifications have some really weird ways of referring to things (the chapter on domains and URLs was a little wonky because of THEIR terminology).
The author takes a lighthearted approach to the topics and inserts the occasional funny here and there that makes the reading go by quicker. I was disappointed that some of the helpful websites were no longer up and running (it's an old edition by Internet standards), and the CD-ROM testing application was so-so.
Specifically, in regards to the CD-ROM testing, some answers which were right were counted as wrong, there was no set time limit on the testing engine, and the testing engine basically mixed and matched (with some repetition) 298 questions from the three areas of the exam. Thankfully, the questions were close enough to those at my testing center that I felt confident I was on the right track while taking the exam.
For these reasons, I gave the book a 4 rating and would recommend it to anyone wanting the basics for sorting out the CIW Foundations certification lingo in order to pass successfully. I think I'd have gotten a slightly better score if I'd read a second book and/or spent more time on the networking fundamentals.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reinforced My Faith in Dummies Books
Comment: This book is written with the typical easy-to-understand, lightly humorous style that is common among Dummies books. Don't, however, mistake easy-to-understand for too simplistic, however. There are some pretty advanced topics covered in the book (especially in the section on "Networking Fundamentals"), but it describes them in such a way that they seem downright simple. I would recommend it to anyone who's preparing to take the IDO-410 Foundations exam.
Rating: 5
Summary: AWESOME STUDY GUIDE
Comment: I just passed this exam, and I must say this book was very well written. Everything on the exam was on this book. I was a bit cautious at first, buying a book with a "Dummies" title. But im glad I purchased the book. I passed the exam with a 90% finding all the sample questions just like the actual test questions. Highly Recommended!!!
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Title: CIW Site Designer Certification Bible (With CD-ROM) by Natanya Pitts, Chelsea Valentine, Ed Tittel ISBN: 0764548417 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: CIW: Site and E-Commerce Design Study Guide (With CD-ROM) by Jeffrey Brown, Susan L. Thomas, J. Peter Bruzzese ISBN: 0782140823 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $89.99 |
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Title: CIW: Foundations Study Guide by Patrick T. Lane, William Sodeman, Emmett Dulaney ISBN: 0782140815 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: CIW(tm) Foundations Certification Bible by Keith Olsen, Don Loughran ISBN: 0764549081 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: CIW E-Commerce Designer Certification Bible by Chris Minnick, Margaret Minnick ISBN: 0764548255 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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