Preplogic $4 Mega Guides

Mike-Mike

If anyone is interested, they are having a sale... I picked up a couple... I used it on Security+ and found it helpful.

arwes

Tell them hi for me when they start calling you.

Armor149

What happened to $1 Mega Guides?

arwes wrote: »

Tell them hi for me when they start calling you.

Now that you mention it, I haven't had my monthly pestering from them.

erpadmin

Thanks for this. I have gone ahead and purchased these as they were only $20 (the entire MCITP:EA set [70-640, 70-642, 70-643, 70-647, & 70-680). I plan on going over the 70-642 and updating my MCITP:EA thread with what I've done, as I need to get back on track with this...hopefully I can take the 642 in late February or sometime in March.

EDIT: I put my google voice number...as soon as I see a number I don't recognize, they go straight to the GV voicemail....

arwes

erpadmin wrote: »

Thanks for this. I have gone ahead and purchased these as they were only $20 (the entire MCITP:EA set [70-640, 70-642, 70-643, 70-647, & 70-680). I plan on going over the 70-642 and updating my MCITP:EA thread with what I've done, as I need to get back on track with this...hopefully I can take the 642 in late February or sometime in March.

EDIT: I put my google voice number...as soon as I see a number I don't recognize, they go straight to the GV voicemail....

That's a great idea! I just set up GV to do this. I feel bad for giving them my mom & dad's number last time. I'd use the local time & weather line, but that thing stays busy enough as it is.

rogue2shadow

erpadmin wrote: »

EDIT: I put my google voice number...as soon as I see a number I don't recognize, they go straight to the GV voicemail....

Same. Their extremely pushy in my experience haha.

ODNation

nice deal - just bought 70-680, 70-685, 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, 70-647

Mike-Mike

i just gave them my old cell phone number

hypnotoad

Giving old cell phone numbers is for wimps.

I bought a megaguide and gave them a kidney, the fillings out of my teeth, and my first born.

Mike-Mike

last time around I picked up Win 7, Security+, and CCNA..

but I have only used Security+ so far... but I liked it.... now those were $3, so it seemed wrong to pay $4 this time, but hey, it is still only $4

now this time around I got the 2 for MCDST, 70-290, and Server+

I already read the Sybex book, so I didn't really want to buy the MCDST ones, but if I didn't buy them, then tanked the test over $8, I would we be very pissed at myself....

tomahawkeer

Nevermind

hex_omega

Guys, is it possible to re-download some audio training material from Preplogic or am I SOL? I bought it about 6 or 7 months ago but I seem to have lost the files. Do I have to contact their support line?

veritas_libertas

Guys/Gals, I would hold up and wait a little while. They usually have $1 deals.

Plantwiz

hex_omega wrote: »

Guys, is it possible to re-download some audio training material from Preplogic or am I SOL? I bought it about 6 or 7 months ago but I seem to have lost the files. Do I have to contact their support line?

Either contact them or find your original e-mail, but surely if you contact them they are best to advise you on your options.

NetworkingStudent

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Guys/Gals, I would hold up and wait a little while. They usually have $1 deals.

I have always paid a dollar for the mega guides.

jmritenour

Mike-Mike wrote: »

i just gave them my old cell phone number

I gave them my landline. That doesn't have a phone plugged into it.

JugglingReferee

New to the cert world.

What are these Preplogic guides? Can they be used by themselves to pass the MCSE or MCITP?

arwes

JugglingReferee wrote: »

New to the cert world.

What are these Preplogic guides? Can they be used by themselves to pass the MCSE or MCITP?

I highly doubt it. I only use these things for a quick review to brush up on a few things.

Mike-Mike

arwes wrote: »

I only use these things for a quick review to brush up on a few things.

same here

jmritenour

I gotta say I'm liking the CCNA one so far. I started reading a little over an hour ago and I'm about a quarter of the way through it. It is by no means a good sole study source, but taking the exam this weekend, it's a good last minute brush up/refresher kind of guide. I've used Todd Lammle's version 6 study guide as my main study material, and it was very thorough, but it's hard for me to go back and re-read the same book and glean any new information, because I tend to sort of glaze over. The Preplogic guide has helped snap things back into my mind that I remember reading it Lammle's book, but just sort of filtered out as I got more into labbing stuff.

It's not bad supplemental material for $4. No way I'd pay full price for it though.

spiderjericho

Thanks, got the CISSP, SCCP and MCTIP guides. If there just review of memorization type stuff like protocols, commands, etc, great.

erpadmin

(Assuming you have a normal stomach...)

These guides are like appetizers. It is unlikely you will be full and satisfied with those....they're just to hold you over until you are served entrées. Those will usually be books and/or CBT materials (mostly books though).

Appetizers are not considered full meals [don't kid yourself].

Mike-Mike

jmritenour wrote: »

but it's hard for me to go back and re-read the same book and glean any new information, because I tend to sort of glaze over. The Preplogic guide has helped snap things back into my mind that I remember .

i feel the exact same way

varelg

NetworkingStudent wrote: »

I have always paid a dollar for the mega guides.

There's something called inflation, and now I guess $4 is the new buck...

msteinhilber

Their sales team consists of some of the most dense people in the world. They simply don't give up, even when it's clear there is no chance. Be sure to fill in bogus information if you value sanity.

From time to time I take great pride in taking a call I know to be an obnoxious sales pitch, just to provide a bit of entertainment as I get hopes up and then politely decline after sounding like I'll be a nice sale. Preplogic was my most recent one just the other day. I figured I would entertain them a bit. When he got into discussing what my present plans were, I happened to mention "well my VMware class starts on the 11th". He quickly went into uber-salesman mode with a fury! He was bound and determined to pitch me their VCP-310 material!

I informed the guy that the VCP-310 exam has been retired, but he wasn't having any of that. I was mis-informed, and so was VMware apparently... preplogic clearly is the authority to determine which exams are retired or not. The salesman was such a tool he would not at all budge and insisted I was a spectacular moron for even thinking the VCP-310 was retired as it's the most recent version of "the VMware VCP software" available... and right about there was where I simply had to hang up, my mind couldn't handle it any longer.

msteinhilber

varelg wrote: »

There's something called inflation, and now I guess $4 is the new buck...

A couple more years and they'll be asking for silver rounds

jmritenour

Okay, now that's just flat out awesome that they can help you prepare for obsolete exams. Do you think they can hook me up with some good study material for Netware 5.11?