Qt Certification Exam simulation - would it be 1. legal? 2. useful?

infoctopus · wrote on 4 Dec 2010, 12:26

[quote author="tamhanna" date="1291464685"]
[quote author="infoctopus" date="1291464455"]
[quote author="Gerolf Reinwardt" date="1291414524"]I think, if you create the questions from scratch, it should be ok. And I would also be interested in :-) als perhaps in developement.[/quote]

Thank you! But if such app and questions will be created, it will be done by my company's developers. We have a need for such exam application for testing candidates/newcomers.[/quote]

This could probably be sold...[/quote]

Yes, probably.

I think that it would be better to make such application free for personal use.
And maybe sell it to corporate users with some additional functionality, e.g. history, statistics.

infoctopus · wrote on 4 Dec 2010, 12:29

[quote author="tamhanna" date="1291465577"]To be honest: multiple choice questions often are harder than normal ones, especially if they were written by a non-expert.[/quote]

Of course such questions are harder due thier nature.

Quality of questions is a key success factor. Prior to getting into the databae, questions created by one Qt expert/senior developer must be reviewed by at least another one.

infoctopus · wrote on 4 Dec 2010, 12:42

[quote author="tamhanna" date="1291466054"]
I meant, if a moron does the question, one can be both true and false.
Had this at an university once. Was fun...
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;)

Cross-reviewing should eliminate such questions

goetz · wrote on 4 Dec 2010, 18:02

That's why there is this beta test, to sort such things out.

infoctopus · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 16:48

I think beta tests also exist for adjusting level of points for deciding whether exam is passed or failed.

giesbert · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 18:01

Hi,

look at: "Qt Certification Advanced Exams":http://qt.nokia.com/developer/learning/certification/qt-certification-advanced-exams

DenisKormalev · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 18:02

Gerolf, beta is closed already (Dec,3 was the last day AFAIR).

giesbert · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 18:14

ups, sorry...
That I haven't seen.

infoctopus · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 18:41

[quote author="Denis Kormalev" date="1291572125"]Gerolf, beta is closed already (Dec,3 was the last day AFAIR). [/quote]

good news. Waiting for the release! :)

DenisKormalev · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 18:41

infoctopus, I'm more waiting for results of beta :)

infoctopus · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 19:06

i guess there's a chance that these two event will be fired at the same time )

giesbert · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 20:16

Didn'tr they say, we get the results of the beta this year? so it can't be far away....

DenisKormalev · wrote on 5 Dec 2010, 20:22

Gerolf, yes there were such announcements, but as I understood time estimation was not finished, so it can be moved to Jan for example. Vladimir can clear it.

infoctopus · wrote on 6 Dec 2010, 22:18

Any official comments on the subject? :)

fcrochik · wrote on 6 Dec 2010, 22:28

When I took the test they said no later than end of the year... I just hope they meant 2010... :)

andre · wrote on 15 Dec 2010, 16:26

My question is: why create a new application at all? Applications like this exist already. There are several flashcard like applications that would be useful or could easily be adapted. The hard work is putting together a question database, I think.

If you would want this thing to be useful for studying, it should also give you some idea of the topical areas where you did well, and the ones you need more study in.

fcrochik · wrote on 16 Dec 2010, 15:58

Andre,

Do you know of any that is open source and qt based? Most likely it wouldn't be necessary to change the source code but as a "community effort" would make more sense (if this is a community effort).

andre · wrote on 20 Dec 2010, 15:45

Yes. You can find them in the KDE/edu project, for instance.