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I am interested in increasing my knowledge about SAP and some other technologies. I came across this website and that offers online training at affordable prices. Wonder if it is worth it. Not looking to get certified but want to be able to say on a resume that I have a working knowledge of a particular technology. Here is the link:

http://www.guruischool.com/index.jsp

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by dr dij

you can learn something but may not be worth it.

You can pay by paypal. you need to sign up first. their oracle track is two versions old. people say there are spelling mistakes and script used as examples for oracle don't work. Looks kind of hastily thrown together.

here's some comments:
http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?p=3686337

while I was searching for it, a scary sign is that results for +guruischools +review goto sites that DON'T review it but simply link to it! KInd of indication of a scam. It looks like they have actual lessons tho. Quite a few.

Another alternative is com2learn.com
they are ONLY SAP and they did respond to my email. Guruischools did NOT!

They are 500$ for all courses for a year and they list fewer than guru; mostly end users, guru shows some for RW and ABAP.

If you do send guru your paypal and try a SAP course, you're only out $14 (tho their web site doesn't quite make it clear what cost is, only shows range, another 'thrown together' indicator).

There is a nasty $28 'registration fee'.

com2learn has a live 'sap' software system you can remote into and use for a fee of $149 for 30 days (separate from the courses). That is kind of a neat feature.

And you should be taking courses for the content, not for vague job promises, also might be sign of a scam. Caveat Emptor!

acm.org, the computer society, ($109/year) has a few SAP end user type courses among thousands of thomson net-G courses included with membership.

One other option is books online.
books24x7.com has 46 books with SAP in title and 231 mentioning or with sections on SAP products. About same price as com2learn for yearly subs to read fullltext online.

by dmayn1988

Thanks for the info. Plan on following up with some of the suggestions you made. Thanks again.

by dr dij

they finally replied
the courses are NOT interactive.
(i.e. unlike just about every other course I take online, they do not ask you questions).

each takes 4-6 hours
has examples and exercises.
unline other courses then they do not give you a certificate for each course if you pass with score (e.g. 70% at mindleaders.com courses)
He says they you a test at end of whole group of courses, which they email to you and you email back. if 70% or greater they mail you a certificate. exam and cert are free.

info@guruischool.com if you want to ask them more questions

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