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Feedback on certification exam

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 1 comment
Dawsie's picture
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There was an original posting for the proposed Certification Exam in 2004 to request feedback about the idea, but no replies are possible, and so I have decided to open a new thread to re-open this subject.
 
I was asked to complete the Storage Foundation Certification as Symantec Technical Specialist and I was shocked by the poor quality of the current version of this.
 
There is no Windows related content.
There are four typographical errors in the exam questions
The example command lines no longer make sense due to the change of layout of the text
 
In practice the current version of the exam is little more than a bit of fun roughly equivalent to completing a Sudoko puzzle - but hardly a worthwhile use of time and resources. Since it appears that this version of the exam has been available since June - isn't it about time that at least the Typos were fixed?
 
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2008
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Hi,
 
There are new exams being developed right now. I've already completed the Cluster 5.0 beta, Netbackup 6.5 Beta, and i'm writing the SF 5.0 Beta today. They're all on unix but i'm sure Windows will follow soon. Oh, and these are certification exams from Prometric, same as we used to have with Veritas.
 
The exams available under the STS program is a little silly. I presume you're referring to the ones you can write online at partnerNet??
 
There is also a new STS Cluster 5.0 Windows exam that they released earlier this year. Its better than the unix version which i found to be more of a service group dependency exam. I'd say the STS exams are a good for practice before you go write the real prometric ones.
 
Cheers
 
R

Regards,

Riaan Badenhorst

ITs easy ;)

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