Re: Informix Certified Professional Program

On 2/5/97, Mike blathered... >When I reviewed the tests as an Informix employee over 50% of the >answers that were supposed to be correct were either flat out wrong or >they were ambiguous. The test also had multiple choice questions that >had multiple answers, in order to get the question correct you had to >get all the answers. I doubt the test is any better now for the >soimple reason that those who wrote the test had never done antything beyond training.... > >Just MHO Having seen these tests and taken one myself, I will tell you that nothing is further from the truth. The final question set is actually a very good test of skills, at least as far as the database specialist course in concerned. I didn't take the other, but have little doubt as to the quality of those questions. The people who wrote it, by the by, were NOT training folks, but Informix consultants, trainers, and engineers who have worked with the products for many years. These were cleaned up over a period of many months; if Mike took one of the early tests I can understand his comments. If not, well, they are much better now. When I took the one set, I could only find a couple of problems, and one was with question N+2 answering question N. Since fixed. Sorry. ;-) David