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Summary: Well-worth the price
Review: If you want to find out what will be on the exams and learn to pass the exams, this is definitely the book for you. They basically took the list of topics from Lotus' own exam guide and fleshed it out (from Lotus' page or two to hundreds of pages). Now, it won't teach you everything, but it teaches you a lot. When the reading is coupled with taking the practice exams, you find out what areas you really need to learn more. For example, you'll read in here about profiles, but in order to understand them in a way that would prepare me for the exam, I had to read the red book on upgrading to R6. Similarly, you really do need to actually do the kind of work that the book describes in order to pass the exams. I managed to pass all 3 exams in about 4 days, but I am an extreme case - I'd been doing the work for 7 years (my certification was in development) and I had access to an exam prep room which had copies of every book I might need.There are flaws in this book. For example, they recommend Bankes & Hatter's "Lotus Notes & Domino: Essential Reference" for administrators. I wrote a review on this site about that book. As I titled my review, it's an "Outstanding reference for LotusScript and Java" - it's not a book for any kind of administrator, as they don't need to learn LotusScript. (Oddly Bankes & Hatter wrote the App Dev Exam Cram book.) On occasion, there are also technical errors. I remember, but cannot find, one instance when it stated that the server was doing something when they intended to use some other noun. It was a proper English sentence, but it was just plain wrong. So, buy this book, study other materials, do some actual installation and administration work and then take the tests. You will be happy with the time and money you invest.
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