If you're like many of the students we talk to then you probably enjoy fairly practical work - the 'hands-on' person. If you're like us, the painful task of reading endless manuals can be just about bared when essential, but you'd hate it. Check out video-based multimedia instruction if books just don't do it for you. Many years of research has repeatedly shown that an 'involved' approach to study, where we utilise all our senses, is much more conducive to long-term memory.

Search for a course where you'll get a host of CD and DVD ROM's - you'll begin by watching videos of instructors demonstrating the skills, and then have the opportunity to practice your skills in interactive lab's. You'll definitely want a study material demo' from the school that you're considering. You should ask for expert-led demonstrations, slideshows and virtual practice lab's for your new skills.

You should avoid purely online training. Physical CD or DVD ROM materials are preferable where available, so you can use them wherever and whenever you want - and not be totally reliant on your broadband being 'up' 100 percent of the time.

Accredited simulation materials and exam preparation packages are a must - and should definitely be sought from your training company. Students regularly can be thrown off course by going through practice questions that don't come from official sources. Quite often, the question formats and phraseology is startlingly different and you need to be ready for this. 'Mock' or practice exams are invaluable as a tool for logging knowledge into your brain - so when it comes to taking the proper exam, you don't get phased.

Students will sometimes miss checking on a vitally important element - the way their training provider breaks up the training materials, and into how many parts. Usually, you will purchase a course requiring 1-3 years study and receive a module at a time. This sounds logical on one level, until you consider this: How would they react if you didn't complete every module at the speed they required? And maybe you'll find their order of completion doesn't come as naturally as another different route may.

In a perfect world, you want ALL the study materials up-front - so you'll have them all for the future to come back to - whenever it suits you. Variations can then be made to the order that you complete each objective as and when something more intuitive seems right for you.

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