Product Description

Computer certifications are booming. So is the SAP market, with the expected audience to be at about 500,000 by the year 2000. Combine the two hot markets with the fact that we're going to have the very first book out of the topic, covering all core SAP specialties, written by someone with "insider information," and we have all the elements of a best seller. SAP is currently giving courses leading up to certification. Each track is about a week long, and can cost anywhere from $8,000-$12,500. This is a lot of money and time to spend on training and certification, particularly when interested parties see how difficult it is to obtain information on SAP certification. This all-in-one certification guide follows on the enormous success of a few of our other titles that have been first to market: Java, Lotus Notes, A+, and Cisco CCIE Study Guide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142207 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 767 pages

Amazon.com Review
This tremendous volume, penned by enterprise resource planning (ERP) consultant Stewart S. Miller, tracks nearly all the elements involved in preparing for, taking, and passing SAP's battery of available certification courses. In addition to offering content and context for the course and exams, Miller has taken the time to include information about the body that administers the tests--the SAP Partner Academy--course and exam pricing, and relevant contact information.

It's unfortunate that Miller doesn't pay the same attention to the text itself, which tends to be wordy. Unlike most reference books of this stripe, the All-In-One Guide doesn't have particularly clear or useful diagrams, nor does it provide much in the way of tables. These types of tools may not be necessary for those familiar with R/3, but for the newcomer such elements can help tie things together.

Miller covers the basic R/3 modules and also touches on such issues as shifting operating systems and integrating third-party applications with R/3. Each chapter ends with several pages' worth of questions, followed by somewhat lengthy but useful answers. All in all, this book is an effective guide to the intricacies of R/3, particularly from a study guide perspective. --Sarah L. Roberts-Witt

From the Publisher
Page after page, Stewart Miller simplifies SAP, and helps you: Understand every part of the certification process. Save thousands of dollars on courses you don't need, Choose the right track to meet you goals, Plan your study program, Learn the material more quickly and easily, Master the new features of Release 4.0, Practice with hundreds of questions for every test, Apply insider tips on the exams, and put your training to work in the real world.

Whether you want to understand SAP's benefits and costs in terms of running a business, get a handle on actual implementation and "going live," or learn about those integration and functionality issues that cross module lines, it's all here>in the one SAP R/3 credentials package designed to sharpen your competitive edge!

From the Author
Stewart S. Miller is one of the country's leading IT efficiency experts, and the author of McGraw-Hill's ASAP: Implementation at the Speed of Business. The president of his own firm, Executive Information Services, he has consulted for a number of major businesses, including IBM and Ernst & Young, as well as software vendors such as SAP and PeopleSoft. He has written hundreds of feature articles for technical publications and is also the author of three other books: IPv6: The Next Generation Internet Protocol, Year 2001: Reaching Y2K Compliance After the Deadline, and Windows NT Security Guide (all Digital Press).

Customer Reviews

Where's the Beef?
For your money, you get approx. 700 pages of fire-starter material. I mean, you can use this book as a paper weight, paper-airplane material, or some relatively toxic fire-starter. Heck, some people may even find humor in the tome somewhere. Other than that, your time and money is better spent elsewhere. Anybuddy with a klew will easily recognize that all the 5-star reviews written above and below are [sham]efully (fake?) friends of the author and/or publisher.

I've read the book. I have SAP Basis certification. I have take the SAP certification courses. Don't buy the book: unless you are looking for a general 15-page introduction to each area of SAP. The sample questions presented inside contain very few, if any, similarities to the real tests.

People who buy this book are likely the ones who fall easily to such advertising by Pepsi, think Winblows 98 is a real operating system, and believe everything shown on CNN is purely without favor or flavor. I wouldn't want to hire such consultants.

A waste of money
I fail to understand how anyone can pass a SAP certification exam of any kind using this book as their resource. The questions are not even phrased or organised in the same way. The certification exam is mutiple choice, for a start! Like a lot of people I wasted my money on this. It doesn't even make a good paper weight. Spend your money wisely and use SAP's own material.

Give up this book for SAP certification
Perhaps I paid too much expectation on this book. I thought it will give you a lot of simulated questions to simulate SAP certificate exam, but it turns out only to give you a brief explaination about SAP NOT for CERTIFICATION. I am very disappointed for this book. Besides, the answer for each question is far from the reality. That is to say, in the SAP certificate exam, NO ONE IS GOING TO WRITE 3 OR 4 LINES OF ENGLISH SENTENCES TO ANSWER EVEN A SIMPLE QUESTION. FOR WHAT? As most of people who are interested in SAP certificate exam know that SAP certificate exam have most questions in multiple choices. The SAP certificate exam is to test people's professional knowledge NOT to test the level of English writting.