Re: IBM As400 certification

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

Another  source of  reduced  cost  Certification Testing for the 
last  several years  has been the North East User Groups Conference, 
Framingham Mass ( just out side of Boston). They are planning to  do 
it again for the  3 day conference April 24, 25, 26, 2006.

Details at www.neibmconf.com

At 08:32 AM 8/26/2005, JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> A question was raised if the sample tests for IBM certification are worth
> the effort.  There are two answers.  First, if the test is on the
> Certification web site, probably not.  If you are referring to the
> assessment tests that you go to assess trac for, yes.
>
> When the tests are written (several of the authors of those test are list
> members and I am one of them) there is a process done to determine how many
> questions on a specific topic there needs to be on each test.  If that
> number is 2 for instance, then the test authors need to write at least 6
> different questions on that topic, sometimes more.  4 of the questions are
> used to mix/match up the different forms used on the actual test, and 2 of
> them wind up on the assessment.  The authors are not aware of which
> questions will go to which test.  The upshot is to make the assessment as
> close to the real test as possible.
>
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Senior Solutions Architect
> Computech Resources, Inc.
>
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