Re: Informix Certified Professional Program

I On 6 Feb 1997 13:48:21 -0500, David_Coburn/ISG/WVUS/WorldVision_at_WVUS-NOTES@wvccg.wvus.org (David Coburn/ISG/WVUS/WorldVision) wrote: > > 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 > I reviewed what was likely one of the early tests which asserted, among other things that a space and a NULL are equivalent. I noted 73 questions that were either flat out wrong or ambiguous. Maybe the test is now the greatest thing in the world to determine someone proficiency with Informix. And I could be wrong NAH