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Ridiculous Certification test questions.

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by hanes_ray 1 view

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Just a question but has anyone else found a lot of these certification tests rediculous. I just took a linux certification test and one of the questions that was on the test was as follows:

Your company has some MO disks that were written on a SunOS system. The MO drive is SCSI.
Based on the above, which one of the following if any, will allow you to read these disks in linux.

And then it goes through five possible answers. I personally think that this is a question that belongs no wherenear a linux certification test. Anyone else have feelings like these about these "tests" or am I the Lone Ranger here?

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by jaolson40

This question came up for me on a Windows 95 cert exam:

You are the admin of a highly robust, highly stable, highly scalable Microsoft enterprise network consisting of 35 Microsoft Windows NT 2.51 servers, 40 Microsoft Windows 4.0 servers, running Microsoft IIS 4.0, Microsoft Proxy server 2.0, Microsoft Exchange 5.0, and Microsoft SQL server 7.0. You have 30 Microsoft Windows 95 clients, 40 Microsoft Windows 98 clients, 10 Microsoft Windows 3.11 clients and 55 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 clients, all connected through a mixture of Microsoft NetBEUI and Microsoft TCP/IP. You have just received a new laptop which you would like to attach to the network. Which of the following would you use (pick 2):

a) Microsoft NetBEUI
b) Microsoft IPX/SPX Compatible protocol
c) Microsoft Client for Netware Networks
d) Microsoft Client for Microsoft Networks

Is it just me, or does anyone else see anything wrong with a question like that on a supposedly impartial exam...?

by hanes_ray

I'm seeing more and more that thest certification tests are designed more towards marketing certification courses than testing knowledge.

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