RE: Online tests

2008-03-05 Thread William Seiter
Good suggestions, thank you, William -Original Message- From: Vincent Cannady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:48 PM To: CF-Jobs-Talk Subject: Re: Online tests Philip is right a reference book, Dreamweaver CF Reference, Javascript Reference, SQL Reference, CF 7

Re: Online tests

2008-03-05 Thread Vincent Cannady
Philip is right a reference book, Dreamweaver CF Reference, Javascript Reference, SQL Reference, CF 7 and 8 may even have some Flex or AIR in them. Also allow for plenty of time. I have taken ProveIT tests and just like you I am already Certified recruiters don't care if you have passed other te

Re: Online tests

2008-03-05 Thread Phillip M. Vector
William Seiter wrote: > True. Many ways to skin a cat, and fillet/chop/etc that cat as well ;) > (No flames please, I am a cat lover myself.) *nods* It's sad when tests don't take into account a programmers ability to be creative. :) > Do you remember which version it was focused on? CF8, CF7

RE: Online tests

2008-03-05 Thread William Seiter
True. Many ways to skin a cat, and fillet/chop/etc that cat as well ;) (No flames please, I am a cat lover myself.) Thank you for the advice. Do you remember which version it was focused on? CF8, CF7, CFMX6.1? Also, do you have a reference in mind that should work well? My first inclination

RE: Online tests

2008-03-05 Thread William Seiter
Thank you, About 15 or so years ago I had interviewed with Earthlink for their helpdesk jobs and they didn't want to know the 'book' way to do things, they wanted to know every which way that I knew how to do it. Thanks, William -Original Message- From: Beth Gibson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Online tests

2008-03-05 Thread Beth Gibson
I am a Recruiter and have used Prove It before. As Phillip said, make sure you are going the correct way and not a shortcut way or it will mark it wrong. For example, and this is an easy example, but if the question was how do you send an email in Outlook - you must go to file and hit new you can

Re: Online tests

2008-03-05 Thread Phillip Vector
Actually, I've taken the test from ProveIt as well. The best suggestion I can offer is to have a reference book handy. They want the "RIGHT" answer even though it may show 2 or 3 ways which would work. They want what the book says it correct (though you and I know, there's more then one way to skin

Online tests

2008-03-05 Thread William Seiter
I have been contacted by a recruiting agency that wants me to take an online test to 'prove' my skills in CF before they will represent me. I took and passed the CF7 certification exam, however I am a horrible test taker. I was hoping there might be someone here who can give me some insight on wh

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2008-03-05 Thread Joe FitzGerald
I have been using CF for over a decade now and have been doing web development since 1993. My specialty is helping companies build or improve their internal CF development teams (implementing source control in a manageable way, introducing "framework" development, incorporating automated testin