On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Jared Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 09:56 +0800, Craig Guy wrote: >> I felt at the time the written portion was heavily biased towards >> people who had done the training - in fact I would go so far as to say >> that it was designed specifically to discriminate against people who >> had not attended the official training. > > Having written a parts of the test and administered the test for the > past couple of years, I can say that we don't purposely bias the test > questions toward things that are taught in the Digium training classes. > (In fact, if anything, I think we get a few more complaints from people > about things that were on the test but weren't covered in the classes.) > Both the practical and written portions of the test are grounded in > real-world Asterisk use, and not just towards the training. > > > -- > Jared Smith > Training Manager > Digium, Inc. >
Jared, Would it to be too much to ask for a few difficult hypothetical test questions, and/or lab (test) scenarios? Do they exist somewhere? I would even pay a nominal fee for this. Obviously not the exact same questions, but the same difficulty (but free is better ;-)) I would go out of my way to take the exam, although I feel that in the Asterisk world, Google reputations speak mostly for themselves... I have seven years of practical experience from a great many differing systems ranging from a few POTS lines, T1s, BRIs, the US Embassy Visa Call Center in Senegal, a call center with a DS3, and all the little tweaks and scripts that were needed for those accomplishments. That being said, I wouldn't mind taking a day trip and paying the nominal fee for getting my dCAP, just to put it on my card and websites. I feel I am way beyond the course, but I would hate to waste a day and the cash to fail (plus "failure is not an option") Maybe you can make it like the HAM test, you can retake it a couple times in one sitting if you fail, even though I got a 100% my first try ;-) Thanks, Steve Totaro _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
