Re: Outrage that OCP exams are now unproctored - Comments?

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:C%JQ9.14362
> Well, as a member of the Australian Computer Society, these are exactly
the
> sorts of things you get examined in prior to acquiring membership. There
are
> several written papers, and if memory serves, not a
multi-choice/multi-guess
> paper amongst them.
>
> I'm positive the British Computer Society has the same sort of membership
> requirements.

I believe it does and suspect these might well be the way to go however...

> There *are* industry recognised *professional* qualifications out there.
But
> OCP isn't one of them.

I can't recall *ever* seeing a job ad that required the candidate to be a member of (or part qualified member of if such a thing exists) the BCS. I'd be surprised if the same wasn't true in Oz. The number of jobs that apparently *require* OCP/MCSE/CCNE on the other hand is relatively large - at least as advertised. In my book that means that the industry doesn't recognise general principles and a professional approach but does recognise skillsets. It is left to the reader to guess wether i think that this has anything to do with the generally abysmal record of the industry in doing its work, when compared to lawyers,engineers,accountants, teachers etc.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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