Originally Posted by
RichMSN
I love that there are companies like Test King. These vendors (these days) create their own certification paths and then require partner companies to pass their tests. Then they make a $3000 class a pre-requisite to TAKE the test in the first place. So I see the certification more as a jump through the proper hoops than proof of anything. So if I'm going to take the certification test (because it's required so my company can be a vendor partner), you're darned right I'm going to do everything I can to ensure I pass.
I've took more vendor certification exams for my last company than I care to remember. Between Citrix, Cisco and Microsoft I has so many acronyms associated with my name that I was having trouble keeping track. And those were ones that didn't require the $3000 class to take the test. I certainly used the Test King approach on some of them as the knowledge wasn't stuff I needed or used, but the certification was.
I have no problem with folks using Test King just to pass the tests if that is what they are going for, but if you're hoping to actually learn something - or pass yourself off as knowledgeable based on the certification - then using the Test King approach is not the best.