Craig,
No question about the lack of value of this particular "certification" to a prospective employer, but I still feel that any technical exam (properly supervised) should allow the examinee to have access to whatever technical materials they'd have in their everyday work. By all means, make the questions harder and the timeframe shorter - that's what's the real world's like.
I'm all for open book exams.
Cheers,
Andrew
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>>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.
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>If it's self-assessment you're looking for, that's a different thing. However, if someone applied for a job with me and said "I'm certified by Brainbench", I wouldn't give them any credit for that.
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
2. "It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
1. "I thought I fixed that."
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