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Today you hear discussions center around which certifications are best, but any certification exam is rendered obsolete if test takers get the questions in advance. And that is just what several web sites offer. Their pitch is that they offer study guides, but their names are a slight giveaway:
and my favorite master of subtlety Cheat Test
Just because these sites are out there doesn't mean that the actual certification exams are compromised, however. Is there really a problem with the certification companies' management of the exams? The Association of Test Publishers (and, yes, there is really such a group) recently surveyed 101 IT vendors and certification test centers:
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A third reported that more than 60 percent of their tests had been stolen or compromised.
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About another fourth reported between 46 percent and 60 percent of their exams had been stolen or breached.
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There were reports of new tests being found on these sites within a month of being published, and in some cases within 2 days! Ouch!
You need qualified people, so what do you do? Which certification comes out uncompromised? Answers in my next post.
Posted on: November 07, 2008 07:13 AM |
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