This book contained some good information but was filled with too many errors. The errata from the publisher's web site does not cover even half of the errors, and contains errors itself! Even at a clearance price this book was a waste of money.

The book should in no way be your only source of test preparation material nor does it advertise itself to be such. The practice exams following each chapter were helpful for giving you an idea of the types of questions you may encounter on the exam, but I noticed it contained many errors. Some of the errors were very careless which makes me wonder if portions of the book were proof-read at all.

Overall, the book is helpful at highlighting the keywords and concepts, and types of test questions which you need to pass the exam despite the many errors.

Although there are some mistakes in the text, and a few obvious errors in the test questions, OVERALL this is a great book to use for your final pre-Test preparations. It WILL NOT stand on it's own (hence some of the bad reviews it has gotten). You must already have a good grasp of the material. This book will help you to reinforce that knowledge and pass the test. I spent 4 days with the book (after taking the 803 and 922 courses in an ATEC) and passed the test with an 855.

This book is full of errors. Questions that have nothing to do with the answers, grammar errors, spelling, incorrect answers,etc... (and English is not my native language!!!). But the text summary part was worth it. I passed the exams but spent to much time trying to figure out the right answers. Perhaps that is why I passed the exams :-) SHAME ON THE PUBLISHERS!!!

There a so many books out there to help you...my feeling is that this series is best used in conjunctin with a Reference-type Book: read thoroughly 1-2 times a Reference Book, then use this series to go over the subjects and answer all the questions...you'll be prepared.

Yes indeed there are some errors, as some of the questions may have been rejected by Microsoft because they were presumed too ambivalent or outright wrong...but that accounts for no more than 8% of questions.

Enrico Savorelli

Read some of the other reviews here and yes - this text has got quite a few errors in it.

That's inevitable in a book this size.

Most importantly, the subject matter is covered well and enough questions are given to make your memory work - or at least that's the way questions help me in my study efforts.

I bought the New Riders books before and there's nothing in them, (well very little), which isn't here.

Worse still when I first started my MCSE 'endeavour', I paid £1500+ for a course by a certain large education company which came nowhere near the usability and quality of this book.

If this sounds like I'm a fan - then YES I AM.

My only regret is spending money on other study aids - because they weren't necessary.

Congratulations QUE - you have a winner - but you need to spend a bit more time proof reading in the future. Keep it up.

Mark Hodgkinson - MCP - CNA

I had high hopes for this book, but was a little disappointed. I bought conspiracy x, expecting great stuff, and it met with my expectations. Cryptozoolgy didn't. First, it's set up with information divided into two parts: the gamers information, and the GM's information. the result is that you have to look in two different areas for information on different "supernatural creatures". Most of the regular freaks of nature are covered--Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, Sasquatch, etc. I was pleased to see a few others like the Mokole. The writing is a lot more pendantic than I'd like--but that may be a direct result from being written in character, where teh character is old, stuffy, and bombastically long-winded. If your game will run into a supernatural creature, it might be worth checking this beek out. If not, I wouldn't bother.

I cannot recommend this interesting work until non-control
rates are included alongside all control rates and until all the many errata and ambiguities are corrected in future editions.