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"Needs update" - by shadow431 on 06-NOV-2011
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Starting reading this book, by the end of chapter two found 8 mistakes just is what he says you need for labs, OS, NICs, HD capacity.  Then he gets need ram WAY wrong.

On top of that poor descriptions and labs that are not accurate.  One lab should kill the machine, it doesn't.

Either the editor fell asleep, or the author has no clue.
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"Great Book" - by Anonymous on 05-OCT-2011
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This book helped me with my RHCSA andI plan to use it in prepping for my RHCE exam.
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"sucky" - by John on 04-SEP-2011
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At a first glance the book seem to be just what you need before taking the rhce; polishing of old skills and learning new ones. This is however impossible since all practices are more or less faulty.

Almost all labs and examples are in one way or another right-out wrong or at least ambigous, and open for interpretaion, leaving you very frustrated, because you can solve them, but not the way they're described in the book.

The labs seem more like a copy-paste job gone horribly wrong.

And i seriously doubt that the author have proof read or finished a single lab in this book.

All over the internet the are referrences to errata, but it's nowhere to be found. Also, it would be interesting to se answers to the labs. Since most of the can't be solved in the way their described.

Please note, i'm only on lab 7 and already thinking of throwing it in the trash and go look elsewhere for rhce guidance.
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"Hands-on Guide to the Red Hat® Exams: RHSCA™ and R" - by RHEG on 11-AUG-2011
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INITIAL SETUP IS NOT EXPLAINED PROPERLY.  MANY ASK HOW TO SET UP THE VIRTUAL MACHINE BECAUSE HEAVY ON INSTALLING VIRTUAL MACHINES.  

NO ARCHITECTURE IS GIVEN EXCEPPT A VAGUE MODEL.  NEED CLEAR PHYSICAL PLAN PRESENTED FOR THE PEOPLE TO FOLLOW THE 4 INSTALLATIONS.
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"Decent coverage, woeful examples and labs" - by Nathan on 24-JUN-2011
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At first glance this appears to cover everything I'd need to do in a current RHCSA or RHCE - it looks at LVM, Virtualisation and SELinux, and it does a reasonable job at explaining these concepts.

Where it really falls down is in the examples and labs. Some of the examples don't make a lot of sense, and many of the "labs" don't work due to technical errors - only some of which are obvious to fix.

This book is in dire need of errata or an update.

A useful read, but you'll need to complement this with another book or some online troubleshooting in order to try some more practical (and working) examples.
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