Re: FW: Certification
One thing to remember about the CFMX exams, is that they are based on the ORIGINAL release, in this case 7.0 So, taking a question from Ben's book: What ouput formats are supported by ? A. Excel B. FlashPaper C. HTML D. PDF E. RTF The correct answer for the exam would be: A,B,D Although RTF is supported as of 7.0.1 if you included that in you answer, you would be marked incorrect. Andy On 18/12/06, Ryan Emerle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On average, I'd say the certification only indicates that you are good > at studying for exams. It doesn't provide any meaningful metrics to > other developers. That being said, however, they do complement > otherwise talented developers' resumes. > > If you are looking to get certified, I would recommend _learning_ the > material and only supplement with books and software. There's really > no point in getting certified if you can't get past the developers who > will undoubtedly have a part in interviewing you. > > -- > Ryan Emerle > > Query2Excel - Write Excel files from ColdFusion > http://www.emerle.net/programming/display.cfm/t/cfx_query2excel > > Excel2Query - Read Excel files from ColdFusion > http://www.emerle.net/programming/display.cfm/t/cfx_excel2query > > ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264295 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: FW: Certification
On average, I'd say the certification only indicates that you are good at studying for exams. It doesn't provide any meaningful metrics to other developers. That being said, however, they do complement otherwise talented developers' resumes. If you are looking to get certified, I would recommend _learning_ the material and only supplement with books and software. There's really no point in getting certified if you can't get past the developers who will undoubtedly have a part in interviewing you. -- Ryan Emerle Query2Excel - Write Excel files from ColdFusion http://www.emerle.net/programming/display.cfm/t/cfx_query2excel Excel2Query - Read Excel files from ColdFusion http://www.emerle.net/programming/display.cfm/t/cfx_excel2query ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264294 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: FW: Certification
I think the nature of this thread is to provide generalizations bout certification. There are so many people with subjective opinions about certification. Does certifying hurt your career? I am willing to wager most would conceed that this will more than likely be "No." For those that say "yes" to the afore mentioned question, I suspect you are being contrarian. I helped teach a certification preperation class. We met once a week for 8 weeks. I believe that I taught probably 3 sessions and provided feedback during every class. The class size was about 6-8 people. The experience levels were novice to expert. We assisted the new people and shared insight amongst the more experienced developers. We used printed copies of cf exam buster to test about certain objectives. Half the people in the room already had a license for the software. Not everyone went on to certify after the 8 weeks, but the preperation for the certification helped remind beginner and experienced developers that there are features out there that they may have rebuilt the wheel for. I am for certification and helping people to prepare for it. It cannot hurt you to share knowledge with others when the goal is to expand our community and promote more new developers to use the product. Teddy On 12/18/06, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> As for looking up the answer... As noted isn't the Adobe one > >> multiple choice still? where the answer is right in front of > >> you on every Q! As my old Physics teacher used to say, > >> multiple choice is not a test.. a monkey with a stick could > >> get a pass by stroking the page randomly... > > >Your old physics teacher could stand to brush up on instructional design. > >Well-written multiple choice exams will not typically be passed by a > monkey > >with a stick. > > Tell me about it. My college physics professor gave multiple choice > exams, > but he did it in such a way that every answer made sense if you've made > the > common mistakes of plugging the wrong numbers in the formulas, or using > the > wrong formulas. > > Russ > > > > ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264292 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
FW: Certification
>> As for looking up the answer... As noted isn't the Adobe one >> multiple choice still? where the answer is right in front of >> you on every Q! As my old Physics teacher used to say, >> multiple choice is not a test.. a monkey with a stick could >> get a pass by stroking the page randomly... >Your old physics teacher could stand to brush up on instructional design. >Well-written multiple choice exams will not typically be passed by a monkey >with a stick. Tell me about it. My college physics professor gave multiple choice exams, but he did it in such a way that every answer made sense if you've made the common mistakes of plugging the wrong numbers in the formulas, or using the wrong formulas. Russ ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264288 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
