Which book to trust? (Mike Meyers or Syngress)

I have pick up three books to study on the Network+: Mike Meyer's books (All-In-One Third Edition & Passport Second Edition) and Network+ Exam N10-003 from Syngress.

I find that the material in the Mike Meyer's books is quite simple, and easy to understand.

On the other hand the Syngress book goes into more in-detail on how things work-- almost to theory. This makes my head spin.

For example in wireless section the Syngress book covers on DSSS and FHSS while Mike Meyer doesn't touch on this stuff.

I find that I'm being overloaded with information and don't know how indepth I should cover each topic.

How indepth is the Network+ Exam?

Does it go with theory? (Eg. how DSSS or DHCP should work)

Or

More Situation questions? (If bob can't connect what's the problem?)

Which book should I trust to do well for the exam?

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ja5983

i got perfect score using myers passport and net+ for dummies

also helped for studying for ccna (intro part atleast)

RZetlin

ja5983 wrote:

i got perfect score using myers passport and net+ for dummies

also helped for studying for ccna (intro part atleast)

What do you mean by cnna?

lordy

CCNA = Cisco Certified Network Associate

Check out http://www.cisco.com/go/ccna if you want to know more

Ricka182

If you use Mike Myers and the Technotes from this site, you will pass. That's my recco.

vijaycujo

I'm also studying for the N+, i also find Mike Myers is much easier to understand so stick with him, help me with my A+ so i would go with that one, n last but not least the technotes from here....go well hand in hand

garv221

Exam Cram2. You actually don't even need a book, technotes from here are the best.

RZetlin

garv221 wrote:

Exam Cram2. You actually don't even need a book, technotes from here are the best.

But also out of date with the N10-003 material.

vijaycujo wrote:

I'm also studying for the N+, i also find Mike Myers is much easier to understand so stick with him, help me with my A+ so i would go with that one, n last but not least the technotes from here....go well hand in hand

When I studied for my A+, I got Mike Meyers A+ book, but as I remembered it didn't cover all the topics properly.

That is why I got two Network+ books this time around.