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| malith 2001-09-20, 1:14 pm |
| Are buying these guides from places like troytech and cheet sheets recomended and is it a afective tool
any comments !!!! | |
| Gareth Leung 2001-09-20, 2:28 pm |
| As the name said, it's just another way of cheating. | |
| Drummer 2001-09-20, 8:57 pm |
| This is from a CIW perspective. Your mileage may vary.
I used Troy Tec for CIW Internetworking and I thought it was good. A lot like the Cert 21 test for that. It's like any other study sheet. The questions are close to the real thing but not necessarily identical. You still have to know your stuff.
I thought the test questions for CIW Security Professional were ridiculous when I took it the first time. I felt like there was stuff in there that just weren't in the Prosoft textbooks. I went with Cheet-Sheets for the second test and passed. The thing about Cheet Sheets file I got is that the answers were not all correct so you have to go through the books and stuff anyway to check everything.
The moral of the story: Don't just study Cheet Sheets. You'll end up "paper certified", like Gareth is saying. But if you've studied other stuff, then it's OK to polish it off with CS I guess. | |
| ninja__kid 2001-09-22, 11:13 pm |
| I'm pretty sure that Comptia is actually suing cheet sheets right now because their product was actually composed of test questions. Has anyone else heard about this? | |
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| Paisleyskye 2001-09-26, 5:15 pm |
| My understanding of the Cheetsheet CompTIA problem, and I got the info from very good sources is this:
Cheetsheets had a database of questions for the A+ exam and the questions in the database were identical to the questions on the A+ exams. CompTIA found out about it, and threatened to sue Cheetsheets, who of course tried to settle out of court. In the end, CompTIA decided not to sue Cheetsheets as long as they turned over their database, and agreed not to publish any more CompTIA exam preparation guides. Cheetsheets agreed and complied and as far as I know, everyone is happy now. | |
| limsam 2001-09-26, 7:08 pm |
| The exam makers are also putting some ambiguous question to make certain percentage of fails.
I have seen a lot of purposefully-ambiguous questions in the real exams. And the real exams do not test th real knowledge.
Until the exam makers come with a genuine way to redesign the exams so that only the people knows the stuff pass, the dumps and cheet sheets will proliferate.
Thanks
LS | |
| Drummer 2001-10-05, 9:51 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by limsam
The exam makers are also putting some ambiguous question to make certain percentage of fails.
Exactly! There's too much trickery going on. There's also a lot of stuff that shows up on the tests that is nowhere to be found in the books (for CIW, I mean. I know Microsoft is a different animal). | |
| Craiglew 2001-10-08, 1:28 pm |
| With a lot of the questions on the real exams, everything is cool and you need to know what you are doing in order to answer them correctly. But with some of the questions, I found myself laughing and saying out-loud, "You guys are purposely trying to f**K me!" With some of those questions, the only way I would ever know the real answer is if I got the info from another source. (from Microsoft "themselves", or from cheet sh*ts) I'd also like to hear Microsoft's explainations! |
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