One of the frustrations of of working in Certification is that so
little time is spent creating exam questions. There are million
other things from expense reports to mandatory training that need
to be take care of before delving back into things like InnoDB
buffer pools or scaling Falcon databases. The good news is that
new exam questions are ready for the next generation of DBA
Certification and I will soon be begging the folks who helped me
in the past for one last look before we shrink wrap the
exams.
I attended the CEdMA Conference this week and was able to network
with other certification folks. One of the items of discussion
was what goes into a certification package. In tight economic
times, training and certification departments need to cut costs.
Many certification entities are simply sending out PDF
certificates via email. Others are concerned about rising costs
for shipping t-shirts, pens, wallet-sized cards, certificates, …
Oct
10
2008