>At one place that I used to work, The Powers-That-Be decided that 1) we were gonna be a Java shop, and 2) we (the programmers) were all gonna be certified in 6 months.
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>Apparently, I was the only one who read Sun's suggestions for the test.
>1) it shouldn't be attempted without at least 1 year realworld experience. (we had 6 weeks of classes, good classes, but 6 weeks)
>2) it was going to show you code presented in the worst and most confusing way possible. (great)
>3) the first thing you should do is figure out if the code would compile. (isn't that what I've got a compiler for?)
>4) the next thing you should figure out is if it will throw a run-timer error. (isn't that what testing is for?)
>5) THEN you should figure out what the code will do.

Whoever passes all this on the firs try will either be fired (as the direct competitor to the current boss), or will be made king.