IBM Certified System Administrator

[simonmac]

I'm thinking of taking the exams for the IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5 and am looking at using this (http://www.thedvdforums.com/jump.php?url=http%3A//www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789729180/thedvdforums-21) and have a few of questions:

Firstly, Anyone out there used this book? If so what is it like?

Secondly, Is there any online practice tests I can take?

Finally, Could you take all three exams 620, 621 and 622 in one day?

[simonmac]

Anyone?

[AdminSpod]

I doubt you will find many Lotus Notes or Domino users who have done the IBM CSA.
Notes was a big thing in the 90s but most big companies have replaced it with M$ Exchange / Backoffice these days.
IBM claim it has a large user base - but a lot of that is because IBM use it themselves and are huge.
I remember running Notes about 10 years ago. It was horrible. The company had paid some consultant to customise it and it frequently crashed. Very nasty. I will be very happy if I never have to use it again!

[wocko]

I doubt you will find many Lotus Notes or Domino users who have done the IBM CSA.
Notes was a big thing in the 90s but most big companies have replaced it with M$ Exchange / Backoffice these days.
I know of at least 3 major Clients of my company (a multi national IT Service provider) that still use Notes, so there's still some value in the qualification, although the lack of response suggests it's nowhere near as popular as the MS and Cisco qualifications.

[scottnew]

I used to work for a large financial organistion (very large) and notes was used throughout, TBH though very big companies often take longer to adopt new software / technologies due to the cost of implementation and all the notes db were created and managed in house.

[simonmac]

Well just got the nod that the company will be paying so it'll be stuipd not to take them.