On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Jim Hickstein<[email protected]> wrote: > Apropos of another thread about resumes: I screened a guy recently whose > resume > said "CISSP Training". I asked what that meant. He said he took the class, > but > not the test, and then went on to criticize the test questions as "too > bookish." > > I think he _failed_ the test. In my world, you don't get to put those five > letters in your resume unless you can produce the certificate. I put him down > as "do not hire -- dishonesty".
While it's entirely possible you are completely correct, he might have a point. I've never taken the CISSP stuff (or looked at any of the materials or anything), so take what I say with the whole lick of salt. Once upon a time I considered taking the Linux Professional Institute exam(s). A friend, who at one point helped design and pick some of the questions on the exam, loaned me her study material and encouraged me to do so. I threw the book across the room at least a dozen times. Their idea of questions is along the lines of "Name 6 flags to the command 'ls'" or "Which flag to 'mount' do you use if you want to attach a disk in FOOBAR format". If I can answer the question with "man" I shouldn't have to remember it. I'm all for remembering commonly used things, but, in my unhumble opinion, rote memorization tests are for monkeys. Moose without bananas _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
