Certification Exam Prep from CI:AI

Building a Study Plan It’s not about knowing everything It would be wonderful if being knowledgeable about the field that a certification covers guaranteed that you would pass the related certification exam. Personal experience: I can tell you that’s not necessarily the case (let’s just say I had a bad experience the first time I took the ASP.NET certification exam). Passing a certification exam is a goal related to, but not identical to, being knowledgeable about or experienced in the field. You get a certification by passing a certification exam, not by excelling on the exam (though there’s nothing wrong with excelling, if that happens: I once got 93% on an SQL certification exam because I was so familiar with SQL). As far as your career goes, all anyone wants to know is “Do you have the certification?” No one really cares how well you did (though they care very much about how well you do on the job). Besides, no one can check on how well you did. To achieve the goal of passi...

  We (Accidentally) Built a Certification Checker ...and found some certifications that didn’t pass If you’re preparing to take a certification exam you want to know one thing: For any potential question on the exam, what’s the right answer? For certification exams, the “right answer” is easy to determine...or should be: It's whatever the company/organization providing the certification exam says it is. And, it turns out, that can be a problem. We recently launched an AI-powered  exam preparation site and, as a part of that development, created an AI-driven tool that measures how well a certification provider delivers the ‘right answer’ for any objective in their certification For some certifications, we found that support was…well, the term we adopted was “thin.” We bring this up because we think certifications are important. If you’re defining a certification, you want to ensure you’ve provided the right answers for all of your certification’s objectives. Defining a...