There is always a difference between people knowing the technology and giving exams to prove their point vs people trying to do exams first without experience, using the questions floating on the net and then boosting themselves. There is no issue with any sort of certifications, the issue is poeple looking for easy way out and fix the exams instead of focussing and practising.. Ultimately it comes down to this, whether they can convince the clients their knowledge and experience on real world scenarios is enough to get them a job. I personally think the clients are gradually understanding the difference between do-ers and pose-rs.. I have not seen anyone getting a job just because they are certified, it might get you to an interview or atleast a scenario facing excercise. how you proceed from there is where the knowledge and experience comes in. I am certified in few areas, still i get asked very simple and sometimes stupid questions.. well thats what i am trying to say "you still have to prove" my 2 cents ________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Williamson Sent: Sunday, 12 October 2008 2:16 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] MOSS 2007 Application Development Exam This is the problem with most MS certs. I'd much prefer that they moved to Cisco style exams: -A short written exam to weed out people who know NOTHING -4-6 hours to set up XYZ given a set of requirements (architect a farm, setup BDC to pull data from a basic webapp, config search with a few scopes, etc) -Grading by a human examination of results for more advanced exams you'd have to come in a second day after they purposefully break something (change permissions ona file share and tell you "search broke" and the like)... As it is I don't count exams in someone's favor, and someone who's passed 10-20 I often wonder when they have time for real work :) On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Arjan Paauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The biggest problem I have is that the questions where identical to the trial exams you can find on the web. I have 3 SharePoint certifications with 100% score.. But I don't feel they are worth anything because I knew all the questions already. It feels like a scam. Cheers, Arjan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sezai komur Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 8:02 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] MOSS 2007 Application Development Exam Yep I did it last year - and the biggest problem with the exam is yeah - such a broad range of topics to study. It's also common for people to only work with a few aspects of MOSS 2007 and people don't end up getting experience in BDC, Excel Services and other parts of the pie. Just do your best to cover EVERYTHING mate. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Uzma Naz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiya, My company have asked me to sit an exam to get certification, it is for exam 70-542. I'm pretty confident with the material, just wanted to seek some advice on where to source information, how best to practice material. Areas that I must work on is the BI, BDC, SSO areas, as I have not worked on these for a while. Wondering how many of us have passed this exam! Regards, Uzma ________________________________ Try Facebook in Windows Live Messenger! Try it Now! <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354030/direct/01/> ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
