Archive for March, 2008
CCVP GETS A FACELIFT
With all the changes and advances in IP telephony, Cisco announced that it’s “enhancing” its Cisco Certified Voice Professional (CCVP) certification.
This certification requires five exams beyond the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and focuses on integrating IP telephony solutions into underlying network architectures, as well as the ability to implement, configure and troubleshoot. Those who [...]
Can A+ Certification Get You Started in IT?
Among the certifications available for computer professionals, A+ is probably the one cited most often as a starting point for careers in information technology (IT). More than 260,000 people have received A+ certification, viewing it as a way to find jobs as computer service technicians or to gain enough skills to move on to further [...]
Microsoft releases three new exams for its newest network operating system in March.
Windows 2008 Exams Go LiveThe Microsoft Learning Group has released three new exams for Windows Server 2008. All three are available worlwide at Prometric testing centers. The release comes quickly on the heels of the official release of Microsoft’s newest network operating system software in Los Angeles at the end of February.
Windows 2008 Exams [...]
Dangers of the new ASP.NET MVC framework
I’ve been following the new ASP.NET MVC framework quite close lately because it looks so damn cool. Not only does it make your website testable in a much richer way, but it also adds abstraction between your different UI tiers. It can do these things because it uses a somewhat strict code separation principle like all MVC frameworks do.
So instead of just adding an .aspx page (with its code-behind file auto-inserted by Visual Studio) to your website, the MVC framework wants you to add a model and a controller as well. The .aspx along with the model and controller is highly abstracted so you can replace one of them easily without changing the others. We know this from the class libraries and components we’ve build for many years – something called low coupling.
Why not tie exams to employment?
Here’s an idea worth considering: Currently in the IT world, multiple-choice and practicum-based exams are used to authenticate your skills, give you something to put on your resume and allow your employer to advertise that they have a certain number of certified administrators/technicians/etc.
It seems to me that here’s an opportunity for employers to incorporate practicum-based [...]