Craig,

1. I agree that the lack of supervision makes the certification pretty much useless to a third party, but it doesn't impact on self assessment.

2. I approve of the idea of being able to look things up - as long as you can do so in a reasonable time frame. The test I did allowed 3 min per question. Plenty of time to go to the command window or the help file if you knew what you were doing - not enough if you didn't. In my day to day work, I refer to the docs and small tess in the command window all the time. I'm not sure that that makes me less of a VFP programmer.

3. I agree that the test seemed aimed a bit low. I did it early on a sunday morning with a squirming 6 month old sitting on my lap competing for attention and still managed to get a good score. 40 easy syntax questions are not really a good test of a programmer.

All-in-all I guess we're 2 and 1 on the points I raised here.

Cheers,

Andrew

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>I took it sometime ago...don't remember my score. I kept getting connection errors through the whole thing. I'm not surprised my score didn't get posted. My thoughts through the whole thing were that I would not put any value on a cert test given over the web and that asked lots of syntax questions. Too easy to look up answers.