These are very good comments, thank you. I figured that 'krutzy' would think he would get something out of it. How I feel that anyone would benefit from the experience. Thanks for the input!
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Phil <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? > > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
