Brian Thanks for sitting the exam and also many thanks for your feedback, it is very useful.
I will make sure that this is shared with the team that put the exam together. We will be in touch once all the candidates exams are marked. Regards Mike > On 27 Jan 2015, at 06:32, Brian St Clair <[email protected]> wrote: > > Before I forget, I wanted to give you some quick feedback. I took the > developer exam at the Salesforce office on Thursday 1/22/2015, with you and > Tim. > > * Overall, I thought the content was excellent and focused on useful areas. > > * I think you need to figure out a way for testers to type answers to > "written" questions, not write them by hand. From me, at least, you would > have gotten more complete and better reasoned answers had I been able to type > them instead of write them. This seems like a tiny thing, but I think it's > actually a big deal, especially when time is of such essence. > > * My primary challenges were around tooling, and this seemed to be echoed by > the other guys taking the test. For me, personally, I do not do OSGi > development on a regular basis (although I expect that to change soon). I > have been doing software development for roughly 18 years, but not much OSGi. > It would have been useful to include more specific descriptions of the > functional tasks that we would be needing to do in the exam, e.g. "install > and uninstall bundles provided for you into a running OSGi container", > "modify a manifest and rebuild a bundle jar using Ant", etc. In addition, > many people use Maven for their day-to-day development. While I realize that > there are reasons for not wanting to provide internet access, it would be > very useful to be given the provided jars ahead of the exam so that we could > pre-populate a local Maven repo. Instructions specifically related to setting > up Maven with everything we would need for the exam would have been useful. > > I'm not sure what the best solution is to the "tooling" question, but given > that there is no internet access, I think more information could be provided > to candidates about how to prepare from a "dev environment" or "tooling" > perspective than was provided, without negatively affecting the integrity of > the test. > > In summary, great content, but I spent too much time writing answers by hand > that I could have better composed by typing, and I (and others) lost way too > much time struggling with figuring out tooling in a "no internet" context, > which adds nothing to the evaluation of my OSGi knowledge or general > programming ability. > > Thanks - I hope that feedback is helpful. The moderators were great, and > incredibly professional. Hopefully I pass, but if not I fully intend on > taking the exam again. > > Best, > Brian St.Clair > Salesforce > > Mike Francis Sales & Marketing Director ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UK +44 207 993 8915 US +1 415-738-8349 Fax +44 845 127 5999 Mobile +44 791 933 5933 Email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.paremus.com <http://www.paremus.com/> Paremus Limited. Registered in England. Registration No. 4181472 Registered Office: 22-24 Broad Street, Wokingham, Berks RG40 1BA Postal Address: 107-111 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2AB The information transmitted is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
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