On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 4:11 AM, Luca Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Mikel King <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes SME's are prohibited from taking the exam or producing study materials. >> > >From >http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification/certification/sme-policy-document: > >[quote] >SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) from the BSD sysadmin community write >exam questions as well as review their technical accuracy. SMEs are >required to sign an NDA > >While under the NDA, SMEs have access to the database containing the >questions for the particular exam they are writing/reviewing >questions. SMEs do not have access to questions for those exams in >which they are not participating as an SME. Once an SME ceases to >participate in an exam, their access to the database is revoked. >[/quote] > >Now it is not clear to me what makes a SME, but however I believe >taking back to the OP question it is not possible to provide an >exam-like study material, but rather a study guide. > > >Luca My intent would be to only involve people like myself who have not taken the exam or participated as a SME. I am wondering if there is any publicly available information at all about the types of questions used in the exam. Just multiple choice? Short answer? Essay? Complete the diagram? If there is not (or should not) be any publicly available information, then the next thing would be to generate a bunch of general practice questions, and then ask people who have used them to prepare for the exam if the question bank was "helpful." I very much do NOT want to do anything that would even come close to wrecking all the hard work that goes into the BSDA certification process. _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://www.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
