Linux Certification

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

>-----Original Message-----

>--- Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> --- Leo Mauler wrote:
>> > Don't know much about this being a good way to
>> find
>> > out about prospective employees.  Some of us are
>> > very
>> > good at bluffing: about four years ago I had never
>> > touched Microsoft Excel, and yet I scored 88% on
>> the
>> > test for it for some temp agency.
>> > 
>> If you scored 88% on a programming test, I certainly
>> wouldn't hire you. That would mean that someone
>> would
>> have to fix more than 10% of your code. Not an
>> exciting 
>> prospect. But I was actually referring to tests that
>> I
>> would create using test building software that comes
>>

But a test like this on Excel tests whether you know some shortcut key
combos or do you only click on the little pictures.  If you know key
combos like Ctl+x for cut, then you will be faster and more productive.
A test like that also marks you down if you try to search thru the
drop-down menus like File, Edit, and Tools.  You only get a score for
the task if you pull down the RIGHT menu on the first try.  If someone
got 100% on this test, I'd assume they can write their own macros to
complete tasks and can remember exactly how to do mail-merge in whatever
version of Office.  MS tends to change how to mail-merge from version to
version or move it around in the menus.