Re: RPG Certification - Assessment tests

So they dumbed it down? Do they cover subprocedures and pointers?

On 6/17/05, Tony Carolla <carolla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I have recently taken the certification test, at the IBM Technology
> Conference in San Francisco. The test consisted of basic RPG, with a bit 
> of
> ILE concepts, topics such as binding, new BIFs, etc. I think what prepared
> me best was regular usage of the language. The topics were pretty varied, 
> so
> it's hard to say which book to read to prepare.
> 
> On 6/14/05, Igor.Beslic@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Igor.Beslic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > I have some questions about assessment tests for IBM Specialist ILE RPG
> > Programer.
> > Last year I tried assessment test for IBM RPG Programer on
> > http://www.testrac.com/ibm/. I passed it and decided to take real
> > certification test but in the meantime both RPG Programer and RPG
> > Developer tests were withdrawn.
> >
> > Recently IBM have merged RPG Programer and RPG Developer tests in one 
> test
> > ILE RPG Programer. It took them almost 5 months to launch new RPG based
> > exam and now I can't find any assessment test for 268 certification 
> test.
> >
> > Do anybody has any fresh expirience with this certification? As I saw in
> > test description at IBM's certification pages, example questions are
> > similar/same as questions last year.
> > Have you maybe better idea for literature than RedBook-Sourcers Guide, 
> ILE
> > RPG Programmer's Guide and ILE RPG Reference??
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Igor Bešlić, dipl. ing. rač.
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