Do you want to help Microsoft on writing an exam?

If the answer is YES, now you've a chance: Howard Dierking has launched the idea of a community-based creation of certification exams.

Howard has revealed that writing an entire exam is expensive and it's also an hard work, expecially on architecturing the questions. Now he has launched an idea: why not opening the possibility to write exam questions also to the large MS communities?

The idea is fascinating but obviously it's not so simple I think. Questions launched from the communities must be submitted, reviewed and moderated from MS internals, then (if approved) they must be kept secret (otherwise their scope will be a fail).

Is all this process so simple for Microsoft? If the answer is yes, then opening the exam question development to the community is a good idea (I think that more clear questions could come from the community vision).

We'll see what happens in the future, but Microsoft has give us a sign of believing a lot on their certification programs.

Print | posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:57 PM

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# re: Do you want to help Microsoft on writing an exam?

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Are you working for Microsoft? I guess, not...
I personally don't want to help Microsoft make more money offloading the certification exam design to the hands of freelanceres.
Did you read this article written 5 years ago?
http://www.rtek2000.com/Good/Why_we_have_to_fight_with_hypes.pdf
Left by zbatia on Jul 05, 2007 6:39 PM

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Thanks for the link, it's really an interesting opinion. I can't agree with all of its concepts, but the conclusions are exactly what I think about certifications.
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Jul 06, 2007 8:58 AM

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