Alexey, Not sure if you mean does it make sense from a career development perspective, or does what you are asked to do in the exam/assignment make sense. Here's my pitch.
Career development: that's down to the individual. I freelance in the UK and having certifications (Programmer, Web Component and Architect) gives me an edge over my fellow freelancers. Very few people have done the SCEA yet certifications are used to help identify people worth interviewing. I speak from experience on both sides of the fence on this one. If you were in the UK and had the skills, I would say that the time spent to get SCEA is worth while for a freelancer. Not so much for a permanent employee. Technical: I have no beef learning all about stuff I don't expect to use to get through the written exam. It's just a hoop to jump through to get the certificate and the SCEA landscape is wide, you don't spend days and days reading about entity beans for example. I got a feeling that in the assignment you're expected to find room for most of what Sun regard as the core technologies although when I sat the 1.4 exam it was also clear that provided you could justify your technical solution and convince the marker that it was sound, you would not be penalised for avoiding the use of any one API or technology - as long as you had a successful architecture and design that complied with the requirements as given. Phil. On Jan 27, 10:43 pm, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Tue, 1/27/09, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Robert Casto <[email protected]> > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Is Sun Architect Certification Worth It? > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 5:36 PM > > So the bottom line is whether you are going to get some benefit from having > the certification. If so, then do it. Otherwise, find something else that > will get > you to where you want to go. > But wasn't that the original question: from people's experience, does it make > sense? I was considering getting those certifications and was wondering the > same thing. I wouldn't be doing it for "fun", as I can just as easily find > fun things to work on in my spare time to improve my skillset. Has anyone > here undergone the process? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
