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Article #61Re: ARE YOU MCSE/CNE CERTIFIED.. YET?
From: David Iverson
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:00
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Dan: I think you are preaching to the choir. Who do we talk to about bad drivers - the millions who are on the road or the State's that issue the licenses? David Dan Bender wrote: > >I'm both pro and con - it depends on the people I talk to. It's > >becoming a goldrush just like the CNE was a few years ago. Microsoft is > >raising the bar with the new MCSE+Internet certification and when they > >move over to the adaptive testing format with simulation type questions, > >the failure rate will go through the roof to weed out all of the > >Transcender and Exam Cram clowns. Do you have any idea what the failure > >rate is already for MCP exams? It's actually quite high. So is the > >dropout rate. Let's not forget also that failing an exam is $100 lost. > > > >I love it when I hear a group of 'techies' talking about Microsoft > >certification. Everyone once in a while I will hear "I'm gonna do the > >MCSE". Christ - they make it sound like it's a damned dance move... > > > >Jas > > Yeah it isn't that easy, it does take work. I agree, its funny to hear and > see > the amount of people who want to take this track of courses. When in > reality 80 percent fail the first exam more than once? Or something like > this, not sure exact figures. There were a couple of exams I sweated on, > but most of them were too easy I thought. But this is mostly due to > microsoft's > ambigous ways. Ah well. I have heard of this one guy he cheated 4 times, and > all > four times he failed. Meanwhile the testing center knew he was cheating, > cause they > watch you, and called sylvan prometric. They asked "what should we do"? > Sylvan > was like, "don't say anything when he fails, but when he does finally pass > bust em" > I thought this was great! Anyways the 5th time he took it, sure enough he > wipped > out some sort of cheating card or something, and they caught him, he was > pissed > needless to say, and I do believe he stopped pursuing his MCSE after that > point. > Can you believe it? Someone who fails a exam more than once in my book > should > pack their bags. Man, I tell ya. > > Dan > MCSE
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ff62,912460b7b2e177b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ff62,public X-Google-Thread: f8547,912460b7b2e177b6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8547,public X-Google-Thread: fb9cd,912460b7b2e177b6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb9cd,public X-Google-Thread: 1138db,912460b7b2e177b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1138db,public X-Google-Thread: ffee2,912460b7b2e177b6 X-Google-Attributes: gidffee2,public X-Google-Thread: f4fa0,912460b7b2e177b6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fa0,public X-Google-Thread: 108a34,912460b7b2e177b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid108a34,public X-Google-Thread: f8bf7,912460b7b2e177b6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8bf7,public From: David Iverson <iversond@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: ARE YOU MCSE/CNE CERTIFIED.. YET? Date: 1998/06/05 Message-ID: <35784B63.5A40BD4F@ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 359924412 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <356CCAD7.878715D@inet-1.com> <6kuvna$38m$1@newse3.twcny.rr.com> <35768935.65E7@mm.com> <6l6clm$jm5$1@newse3.twcny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NETCOM X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Jun 05 12:43:49 PM PDT 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: iversond@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.netware.misc,alt.training.technology,demon.adverts,misc.education.adult,misc.education.home-school.misc