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Title: CIW E-Commerce Designer Certification Bible by Chris Minnick, Margaret Minnick ISBN: 0-7645-4825-5 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Only book I used, and I passed!
Comment: This is the only book I used to study for the E-commerce exam and I passed with an 85 percent. I think it is very adequate for the exam, but perhaps has some extra material (like Actinic Businees and so forth) that you do not need to know.
This book can be a bit confusing, so I recommend that you do all the questions in the book and also all the practice questions on the CD.
Here's what I did: the two nights before the exam, I reviewed every single chapter's pre-test as well as the chapter reviews and the questions at the end of the chapter. I also read all of the exam tips in each chapter (these are life savers for the exam). Make sure you do this!
The night before the exam I took three out of four tests from the CD. I recommend if you have the time and are confused to do all these tests and to go over them an additional time. This process will help you focus on the priorities for the exam. Best of luck on the exam!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Beginners Book
Comment: Hello! I wanted to share my experience with this book. My goals were to gain a better understand of e-commerce and to use the book as a study guide for passing the CIW exam.
If you are looking for a book to give a good overview of e-commerce and some helpful hints and tricks, I highly recommend this book. The book gave a great overview about the development, maintenance, and management of an e-commerce site. After reading the book, I feel prepared to make educated decisions about selecting e-commerce software. The book did a great job with stating and explaining the important concepts. Plus, the book was an easy read.
If you are like me, and wanted to save some money and self-study instead of taking a class, I recommended this book; however, it should not solely be your only study guide. I passed the CIW e-commerce test with an 87%. I read the book, highlighted, went over all questions, and took the practice exams ever day for over a month. However, what helped me equally was going to CIW cram sites to get a better feeling for the questions. The book did not cover everything that was on the test and I don't know if I could have passed the test with just reading the book.
The book was helpful in pointing out some concepts that would be on the exam by marking sections that were of importance. The exam does not cover vendor specific products, but the book does go into detail on some products. The test questions are helpful and are similar to the exam questions.
I am glad that I have this book as a reference and had it as a study guide, but I highly recommend that if you are going to take the CIW exam, study the cram web sites as well as reading the book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but not good enough
Comment: First of all let me congratulate you for your efforts in becoming an Certified E-Commerce professional, before writting this review I thought about this book a lot, I have to tell you that I read it from cover to cover and here are my thoughts: This book is extremely long, it talks about issues that you will not get on the exam nor they will be applied in real life, the test engine to my surprise had many, many errors, they were questions that will contradict themselves or sometimes you will find 2 correct answers when the test engine was only asking for one, futhermore, some questions had the wrong answer or were asked with insufficient information, bottom line it made it more confusing. It would mixed terms like EDI, SET and SSL.
Did I pass? yes, some questions in the test were addressed in the book, I also used online examcrams and free tests. You can pass the test with this book, but I think there room for improvement. Unfortunately, I cannot recommed this book, the most important chapter Security was left almost at the end, the explanation for symmetric and asymmetric encryption were very brief and doesn't explain it in a way you can understand it easily, also one of the key subjects for e-commerce today is security, which the book left for the end (when you are tired and your concentration is not at its peak) this makes it a lot more difficult. I wouldn't rely on the test engine at all, rather I will look for a more subject comprehensive and to-the-point text. I hope this comment might help in your search for an e-commerce text book and good luck!
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Title: CIW Site Designer Certification Bible (With CD-ROM) by Natanya Pitts, Chelsea Valentine, Ed Tittel ISBN: 0764548417 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: CIW(tm) Foundations Certification Bible by Keith Olsen, Don Loughran ISBN: 0764549081 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 4th Edition by Michael Meyers ISBN: 0072222743 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: CIW Foundations for Dummies by Sharon Roark, Tom Devine ISBN: 0764516353 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Interactive System Design by William Newman, Michael Lamming ISBN: 0201631628 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 10 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $45.94 |
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