Opinion about Study Guides

[ya34]

I just wanted to know if anyone had any experience with hotcerts.com guides for their comptia exams .

My frd just passed his 220-301 using their guide and he doesnot stop talking about their guides .

Any suggestion will be helpful in making my decision . thanks in advance

Topic Title and Description edited.

-Gouki

Edited May 5, 2006 by Gouki

[Gouki]

Haven't used HotCerts for any of my certifications. Nothing like buying a good book, study it and then do some pratice exams (CD included on most books).

If you are looking for Study Guides, I recommend MCMCSE.com.

By the way, try choosing a better Topic Title next time.

P.S: Remember NOT to use braindumps!

[CoffeeFiend]

I stumbled across this post, and I figured I'd peek at that site (mcmcse).

Personally, I wouldn't recommend them. Not so much because the info isn't good, accurate, useful or such, but because it seems outdated for the most part.

Looking at their MS cert stuff it seems to be mostly from the Win2k-era:

Mostly Win2k stuff (2003's been around for quite a while, even R2 has been out for a bit), NT4 to 2k migration ('nuff said), ISA server 2000 (2004 isn't new either), SMS 2.0 (eek), SQL server 2k (2005's out, even SP1 for it), Office 2002...

If one's learning new stuff/training to get certs and such, might as well go with the current new stuff. Also, while their MCSE/MCSA contents isn't all that bad (and arguably their MCDBA too), their MCSD section is lacking to say the least...

Still not a bad resource (in the sense that it would work against you), but not like I'd spent too much time there either. I'm not expecting Vista-era stuff or anything, but training for win2k-era stuff nowadays makes little sense.