Certification Success Exam Cram: [Paperback]

Ed Tittel (Author)

Book Description

Series: Exam Cram | Publication Date: November 1, 1998

Provides necessary information on each vendor's certification programs, addressing multiple tracks, multiple tests and re-certification. Discusses price of tests, length of tests, and testing locations. Compares study materials such as books, classes, and online information.

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About the Author

Ed Tittel (Austin, TX) is president of LANWrights, Inc., a training and content development company. His author team specializes in certification training and networking and has authored over 100 best-selling computer books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group; Bk&CD Rom edition (November 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576104222
• ISBN-13: 978-1576104224
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,534,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ed Tittel is a full-time freelance writer, trainer, and consultant who specializes in information security, markup languages, and networking technologies. He is a regular contributor to numerous TechTarget websites; teaches online security and technology courses for HP; and writes regularly for Tom's Hardware and ITExpertVoice.

Ed has contributed to over 100 books on various computing subjects, including a dozen different titles in the ...For Dummies series. He is probably best known for creating the Exam Cram series of IT certification prep books in 1997, and for having edited that series from 1997 until 2006. Ed's best-selling titles include "HTML, XHTML and CSS For Dummies" (soon to go into a 7th edition, for a cumulative total of 13 editions of HTML For Dummies titles he's worked on), "The Guide to TCP/IP" (which he co-authored with protocol expert Laura Chappell), "Windows Server 2008 For Dummies," and "Networking Essentials." He's also written numerous titles on security including the "CISSP Study Guide" (4th edition, with co-authors James Michael Stewart and Mike Chapple), "The PC Magazine Guide to Fighting Spyware, Viruses, and Malware," and the "TISCA Training Guide."

For more information on Ed, please visit his personal Website at www.edtittel.com. You can also visit his profile on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/edtittel to get information about various blogs and other activities.

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wondering about certifications?, March 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Certification Success Exam Cram, Second Edition: (Paperback)

This book is an EXCELLENT source of what to know and how to go about finding it out, when it comes to certifications. Ed Tittel knew what he was doing when he put these words to paper, and into a book. I highly recommend this to someone who wants to get started in the computer certification areas.

4.0 out of 5 stars for the msce's, November 22, 1999

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pierre migadde (Kampala (Uganda)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Certification Success Exam Cram: (Paperback)

this book seems to be the best in those that i have seen by my own eyes. Try it i am sure it won't let you down. This all i can say becouse iam an aspiring mcse student. I have alreaduy tried some books but this is just giving me the real things i need. If you're a Mcse please write to me.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not one single misprint!, June 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Certification Success Exam Cram: (Paperback)

I read this book carefully and did not find any mistakes or misprints. I enjoyed it and learned a great deal from it. Yet, having said that, I feel it is necessary to follow a reading of "Java2 Exam Cram" with the purchase and subsequent reading of "The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide" from Sybex press. I feel that it is only by reading BOTH of these books that one has the fundamentals necessary to take the Java 2 programmer exam. Each of these books fills in cracks left in the other book. "Java 2 Exam Cram" covered some topics, such as GridBag Layout, that according to the Sybex book are not required for the Java 2 certification exam. "Java 2 Exam Cram" in some of the later chapters tended to be a little overwhelming on a first reading. However, I found that when I later began reading the Sybex book, "J2 Exam Cram" had gotten my learning curve up high enough on the difficult topics so that reading the Sybex book felt painless and pleasantly easy. It would be foolish for anyone planning to take the Java2 Certification test to not buy "Java 2 Exam Cram". I feel a lot of hard work and care was put into writing it. A 2nd edition based on user experiences with the book would surely result in the rewriting of some chapters, but in this imperfect world I find this book to be above average in quality and utility. I value "J2 Exam Cram" more highly than huge, overly long tombs such as Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java". I easily finished reading "J2 Exam Cram" in two weeks. Eckel's book takes at least 3 months to read by which time one has forgotten what was in the earlier chapters. In the fast changing world of programming, I am getting increasingly frustrated and turned off by LONG programing books. Java 2 Exam Cram is just the right length. By the way, the Sybex book, "The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide" is also a short book that is a fast and pleasant read, despite it being 3 inches thick, owing to the fact that the chapters are short, the fonts are large, and it is double spaced.