This book is a very good book for the beginning novice. It tells how to go about getting a certification and what you can do with it. But, this book has almost no techinical information you couldn't get out of the manual. It's software has yet to run on my computer, and it looks like it is sorry anyway. The book contains "cute" little games and crossword puzzles that hold absolutley no basis on the material. The CD that comes with it contains little programs to "help" you with your certification process, though they have absoultley no basis on the material.