Coriolis Breaks the `Certification Barrier' with Over 1.5 Million Study Guides in Print.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 1999--Due to the continued growth in sales of the Exam Cram guides in Q1, 1999, The Coriolis Group has achieved another milestone of publishing over 1.5 million copies of their certification training materials. Since the launch of Coriolis's Exam Cram and Exam Prep series in late 1997, reader and student demand has helped Coriolis' training product line become the most widely used self-study material around the world. Coriolis has published over 52 study guides on certification programs including Microsoft's MCP, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCDBA, and MOUS; CompTIA's A+; Adobe's Photoshop ACE, and Oracle's OCP. By mid-1999, Coriolis's complete certification study line will expand to include Novell's CNE and CNA for NetWare 5; Cisco's CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE; CompTIA's Network+, and Microsoft's new MCSD and MOUS for Office 2000. Coriolis expects to have over 2 million study guides in publication by mid year.

In addition to establishing Exam Cram and Exam Prep as the leading brands of self-study guides in the certification industry and introducing new adaptive-testing editions of their best-selling study guides, Coriolis is expanding the Exam Cram Method(TM) of study into other formats, including instructor-led training courses (Exam Cram Live!(TM)), an online newsletter (Exam Cram Insider(TM)), computer-based training (CBT), and a Web-based certification resource center (www.examcram.com). Currently, Coriolis's training guides have been licensed to be published in over a dozen languages, including German, French, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Dutch.

"Our unique approach to showing professionals how to effectively study and pass complex certification exams has really caught on around the world much quicker than we ever imagined," said Keith Weiskamp, CEO and president of The Coriolis Group. "We're especially pleased to see our brand awareness become so prevalent not only in the United States but in Europe, the U.K, Canada, Australia, India, and Asia as well. We believe that Coriolis has emerged as a leader in IT certification training by not only producing innovative training products that work but by providing a number of study resources and services to our customers."

The Coriolis Group, LLC, located in Scottsdale, Ariz. (www.coriolis.com), is a significant player in the $1+ billion certification and training market with its Certification Insider Press product lines as well as a successful publisher of technical books and the bimonthly magazine "Visual Developer." Coriolis products focus on three growing markets: technical professionals in need of official certification training (Microsoft, Oracle, A+, Cisco, Java, Novell, etc.); professional software, networking, and database developers, and system administrators; and Internet and Web professionals. Products consist of training guides, CD-ROM based training software, and instructor-led courses. The Coriolis Group, LLC is located at 14455 North Hayden Rd., Suite 220, Scottsdale, AZ 85260. For more information or interviews, contact Michelle Claire, Public Relations Coordinator, at 602/483-0192, ext. 206, fax [phone], or email: [e-mail].