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Why do vendors insist on multiple choice? Red Hat solved this problems by making a Red Hat certifications practical exams. You can’t cram from brain dumps if yo
by op00to 5y ago
Why do vendors insist on multiple choice? Red Hat solved this problems by making a Red Hat certifications practical exams. You can’t cram from brain dumps if you actually need to understand the content.
- austincheney 5y agoMultiple choice isn’t necessarily an indicator of poor quality. Most IQ tests, those administered by psychiatric supervision, are multiple choice intentionally looking for deviation and alignment through repetition and measured variation provided a long enough test. One of the cert exams I took, only one of them, looked for the exact same thing as a means to identify and fail crammers.
- xwolfi 5y agoAgreed, but it's also going to face even more resistance. I was ok spending all this time on something I knew I could pass quick, but practical ? Damn if you want to do a real test, get into a job with a 3 months probation and your rent on the line and contribute to something that makes money and you're done. All these certs stuff they re like uni, you know all they prove is very theoretical and you must have too some genius colleagues who can code amazing things but somehow never deliver and some messy dude who iteratively build the money printing software that pays for all this theory. So, no better test than the client for me.
- op00to 5y agoI see “good certs” done by a truthful person shows me that a person can complete something, and they have the shared vocabulary to start understanding how that cert knowledge fits into their actual job. Im always surprised at the lack of follow through I see at so many levels.