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Title: Clp Training Guide: Lotus Notes by Cathy Bannon, Dennis Maione, Tom Papagiannopoulos ISBN: 0-7897-1505-8 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (28 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of Errors, but good coverage for exams.
Comment: I passed the SA1 Exam by studying this book without doing any preptest, even not the questions on the CD. The score was just a pass. I belive the best way to use this book would be. 1. Find the errata and correct them. 2. Take notes off the book if you can not bare with the mess after correction. 3. Find Prep Exams that you can get to refresh some key areas. Then, you will be ready for the exam. e.g. what's the home server really mean? COM port settings in the Notes.ini? etc. especially for SA1. You need to do 22 out of 34 correct answers to pass the SA 1 exam within 60 min. I am still using this book to study SA2 and AD1. But I will do more prep exam before the real one.

Rating: 4
Summary: Great source for Exam Prep
Comment: Highly recommend this book for exam preparation. This book will help you focus on the materials necessary for the particular exams and leave you well prepared. Your exam prep should also include practice exams. Can't recommend the CD one way or the other, because after having read the other reviews I used SelfTest software for the practice exams instead.

I bought this book solely to help me prepare for the CLP exams, which it did. However, it was a little irritating that the chapters weren't organized by test content. This book was very poorly edited, but that seems to be the trend in most exam prep books, including the MCSE series.

I'm sure I'll continue to use this book as a reference guide from now on. It presented some things much better than the Lotus documentation ever did.

Rating: 4
Summary: Valuable, but not perfect.
Comment: Pros: 1)This book prepared me to pass three exams on the first try. I thought it explained all the necessary material in a clear manner. 2)I found the 'Study Guide' section of the cd-rom especially helpful as it was configurable and allowed me to focus specifically on the areas I was having difficulty with.

Cons: 1)Errors on questions on the cd-rom were especially frustrating as I would waste significant ammounts of time before realizing that it was their error rather than my own. 2)The book's format makes it difficult to determine which parts are on which test.

One word of caution: After seeing the same questions several times on the practice tests, I found that my rising scores were as much attributed to my memorization of the sequence of answer choices as it was my actual learning of the content. To avoid such false assurances, it's too bad practice tests such as this don't shuffle in random false answers with each run, or at least change the order of them. Oh well.

Overall, I consider the book to be a necessary resource. Before one of the tests, I also purchased a download from Self Test Software. Their questions seemed to be closer to the ones on the exam and I scored three questions better than my average on the other tests. But for the extra money I don't know if it's worth it, seeing that the cost to re-take a failed test is not much more than that. Good luck to all.

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