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Don’t Mess With Juju!
12-07-2009 11:22 AM

<Originally posted October, 2006> Earlier today someone referenced this article from my old blog which will, eventually, be migrated over to my new blog.  However in the meantime I am reposting it.  To be frank the perfect record no longer stands true. –MDG Don’t Mess With Juju: Even if you are not superstitious it cannot hurt to appease the particular... Read More...

by Mitch Garvis | with no comments

Filed under: Article, Certifications, Exams, luck, Juju

A Reply to a Trainer Who Knows His Students Cheat
03-19-2009 8:48 AM

I am a member of a private community of Microsoft Certified Trainers on a well known networking site.  In the last couple of days one of my colleagues complained that his students were passing their exams by using Brain Dumps, and that these tools diminished the value of the certifications.  He opined that this would not change until Microsoft made... Read More...

by The World According to Mitch

Filed under: IT Pro, Microsoft Learning, Article, Education, Certifications, Cert Security, Certificates, Exams, Learning, Scams, brain dumps, CertGuard, Professionalism

Certification Exam Security... what can be done?
04-02-2008 1:36 PM

The following is a comment I made to a blog article on Network World on the topic of certification exam security.  The actual post can be found here:  http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26502 Using the MCP ID card as your security poses a number of downsides.  To mention two severely opposite issues: 1) A new candidate, or one who has never... Read More...

by Mitch Garvis | with no comments

Filed under: Article, Education, Certifications, Cert Security, Exams, CertGuard, Archived