On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would submit that if the test is more about how to take it than a > measure of knowledge then they are not really meeting the need.
Agreed. I consider the CIW _testing_ program to be such. Sad considering the courseware/books are quite excellent. > The Perl people I spoke with (a well known person in those ranks) was not > impressed with the present offerings and suggested directly that LPI was a > good venue to make a well respected certification. I don't know about > other areas but my exposure to Perl shows me that making a programmers > certification that is respected will be difficult but well worth the > effort if it can be done right. Of course doing it wrong will hurt > immensely. I would pitch the idea to O'Reilly. God knows they could easily make the money back in official courseware/books. > Partnering with the right entities would be great. I'd be careful however. > The CIW tests being involved with "gaming the test" might hurt our > reputation. Agreed. But I had to suggest it. Especially for those of us who have taken enough exams to probably "qualify" using existing exams. But yeah, it would be as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the Microsoft MCSA/MCSE Security and Messenging specialties used existing exams. But I have those too. [ Client requests/requirements and their blind faith in them have turned me into a "cert whore" ;-] > I don't know anything about the MySQL test but the > organization is well respected so looking into that might be helpful. Exactomundo. > I'd like to see some dicussion on how LPI feels about partnerships and > just what kinds of things are best left to partners and which are best > brought in to the core of LPI. Well, it's a temporary solution. CIW already accepts LPIC as a "pre-requisite" for some of their titles. -- Bryan J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. ... That idea of community rights is firmly rooted in the 'Communist Manifesto.'" -- Michael Badnarik _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
