I purchased this book as the hands on experience for. Dr Boyle's Networking and Servers course at the University of Utah. The labs are excellent as they teach you basic knowledge of dozens of programs that are commonly used by network administrators and professionals. After doing most of the labs I have substantially added skills to my resume that have greatly increased my visibility to employers. I applied to five network administrator positions and each of them gave me a call, even though I have no work experience. My resume was impressive enough with the skills that these labs added. That is why this book is so valuable; it doesn't teach theory but applicable skills that employers want. I suggest this book to anyone who is interested in learning networking and servers from a basic level. The only downside is that because there are so many programs covered there isn't full in depth discussion on how to use each program. That being said, the book isn't designed to be a user manual for each program but to give general knowledge and skills thereby allowing users to discover and learn on their own with the programs they are interested in.
Dr. Boyle's textbooks have always been a great resource for learning hands on applications of IT Security and Networking skills. Knowledge learned from this book can be put on a resume and teach you how to talk-the-talk during interviews. Unfortunately, many think that just by doing some of the exercises in the book constitute putting those skills on their resume. This book will give you a great introduction, but you have to apply yourself with more outside learning to become proficient enough to get through a job interview!
This book is fantastic. The projects in it are explained thoroughly, and the content is really interesting. I enjoyed doing the projects a lot.
One of my favorite projects involved creating a bootable Linux distro and running the OS from a flash drive as the computer boots.
Product Details :
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (July 24, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132310341
- ISBN-13: 978-0132310345
- Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8 x 11 inches
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