Re: AS/400 RPG Certification Test

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

Actually I would prefer a test designed to demonstrate a person's areas of
knowledge; a test that is geared for illumination rather than a pass/fail
sort of thing.  

The AS/400 has become so broad and so deep that a person could be really
good as some one thing but not so good at anything else.  Does one need to
know data queues to work in most RPG shops?  What about the RPG cycle? 
For some shops it is vital yet in other shops it is anathema.  The same
with security, machine operation, Client Access, ILE, and most other
pieces of the AS/400 puzzle.


In <3.0.3.32.19980905124037.006a0cf4@pop4.ibm.net>, on 09/05/98 
   at 12:40 PM, "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net> said:


>I agree with Charlie that the current certificate tests have value,
>however the current tests have been written (on purpose IMHO) to be
>tricky.  The problem is that we need skills.  I would rather have more
>people able to pass a reasonable test, than have IBM identify for me the
>people with exceptional skills who are good test takers.

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