| The Magento Certification tests are so divorced from the skills and reality of developing a Magento site and the study materials are so, so, so bad that most organizations just send a couple of canaries to take the cert expecting them to fail, then based on the questions they saw the org will put together their own memorization based study materials and train other devs using their own internal docs. THIS IS INTENTIONAL on the part of Magento. They want a high fail rate. It ensures that only orgs with lots of money (who can afford a couple failures) will get a large number of certs and become official Magento partners, and since you pay for each test more failures means more money. They have carefully structured the cert so that about 1/2 the questions are actual general skills and useful knowledge for working with the framework and about 1/2 are rote memorization such as, "What is the EXACT class name and Method Name that does X?" where options are My_Basic_Class_Car::doThing()
My_Basics_For_Class_Car::doThings()
My_Class_For_Car::doThing()
My_Class_for_Cars::doThings() You need like 75% to pass... so if you're really lucky you can guess your way through the memorization portion but 90% won't pass on their first try. If I were a hiring manager looking at a candidate with a Magento cert I could glean 1 of 2 things: 1) This person took the cert independently and cared enough to cheat or pay a lot of money to get it. 2) This person worked at an org with enough institutional knowledge of Magento and their payola process that they probably learned SOMETHING while they were there. |