[aklug] Re: IT certifications

Internet aggression and posturing! How exciting! A great reminder to not
bother contributing in the future.

Have a better day bud.

Kris

On Sep 7, 2016 11:28, "Szechuan Death" <sdeath@sdeath.net> wrote:

> On 9/7/16 11:06 AM, kris laubenstein wrote:
> > There are some good points in here from Szechuan, among the apparent
> frustration
> > with a straw man.
>
> The term "straw man" has an actual meaning, and I would recommend that
> you learn it. Once you do, you can point out for the class where,
> exactly, that straw man was standing. You'll be looking for awhile.
>
> > I'm pretty sure there was some NDA I agreed to, but I can say that a
> major
> > vendor is in the process of changing how their certification process has
> > historically been done. It is a MUCH better format than multiple choice
> and I
> > believe it will bring more value to their certifications as time goes
> on. It
> > will make brain dumps serve as training and less as free answer keys.
>
> Most of them are, because they realize exactly how easy the exams are to
> game.
>
> Many of them are moving to statistical tests to detect braindump users
> on the multiple-choice parts, too. Example: trick questions that are
> designed to only be answerable "correctly" if you've been a-cheating, at
> which point, they subject you to the Lens of Scrutiny.
>
> Most of my objection to multiple-choice tests has to do with horrible
> question phrasing that is not conducive to knowledge quantification.
> "Parsing the question correctly to find the gotcha" isn't a valuable
> test of knowledge, it's a linguistic parlor trick. That wouldn't be a
> problem if the certs weren't openly advertised as being measures of
> useful knowledge. I'd have no problem if they advertised them as what
> they actually are: "rote exercises designed to facilitate HR
> screening", as well as "a swell secondary income stream for vendors".
>
> --
> "must be the money"
> -SD
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Received on Wed Sep 7 11:56:13 2016