actually, it IS a timed test, so you cannot simply "spend all day looking up
the right answer."
BTW, if you do want to take the test, today is the last day that the exam is
offered for free ... tomorrow they start charging $20 or so for each
exam....
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Maggelet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Developer certifications
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:54:07 +0200 (EET), Dragos Roua
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>Hello,
>
>If you'll take a look at Brainbench.com you'll see a PHP4 cert exam
>there. As
>brainbench plan to become a paid service, their certifications may
>start worth
>something sometime.
The brainbench exam is terrible. It's heavy on knowing the details of
mssql functions and oci functions, and no points are given for speed.
It's like an open book test so anybody can spend all day looking up
the right answer, fill it out, and get a perfect score. If you just
want to get the thing over with you can be honest and dump all the
answers you don't know.
Anyway, I think that as a benchmark it's garbage. A good test should
stay away from most modules, and also include speed as a factor. Also
It's way too easy to cheat on a test like this, so I don't think they
should be taken too seriously no matter what.
I can see requiring a person to pass a test like this before they get
a job interview, but a company using the scores as a basis for hiring
someone would be silly.
>My 2 cents anyway...
>
>> Does anyone know of a company which is offering or planning to
>>offer PHP
>> developer certifications? Arguments against certification programs
>>aside[1],
>> there are a lot of companies which prefer certified developers,
>>even to the
>> point of assuming a project done in ASP will be better than the
>>same thing
>done
>> in PHP simply because the ASP developers are Microsoft certified.
>>
>> While this seems like an interesting sideline for a company like
>>Zend, I'm
>also
>> somewhat curious about whether an "Open Source" test could be
>>developed. It'd
>> certainly have to be quite different from normal tests and that
>>move away from
>> easily memorized answers would probably be a very good thing.
>>
>> [1] We've all heard them before. I'm personally in favor only of
>certifications
>> like certain devilishly hard Cisco exams which measure more than
>> multiple-choice memory.
>>
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