Glad to meet you!Quick words of introduction before you read on: I'm the MySQL AB Certification Manager :-)
Absolutely. I don't mean to suggest that testing knowledge is inappropriate, but syntax questions are a pet peeve of mine because the level of knowledge involved is both shallow and not that important -- in practice, a working professional has a manual and syntax summary readily available and it doesn't take long to look up such information.Balance: A good exam will test both skill AND knowledge -- knowing how to change the table type from MyISAM to InnoDB is knowledge -- realizing when and why to do it is skill. And the two complement each other.
Excellent point. But again, some knowledge is not just syntax.Skill-proving questions have many advantages; letting the candidate answer them quickly is not one of them...
Finally, as Mike also points out, the people that I see complainingHeh. I'm a MySQL newbie. (But I have twenty years of experience with RDBMSs <g>).
about the lack of skill testing are obviously long-time users very
proficient in MySQL,
Excellent discussion, by the way.
Bruce Feist (retired database instructor / courseware designer)
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