Hello all
I invite you to join Skillmeter.com to take exams and get your certification as everything is FREE for a limited time.
Currently it offers PHP & mySQL exams/certification, but more exams will come really soon (ASP.Net, Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, etc.)
Good luck!
Thanks.
(Disclaimer: I am the founder of Skillmeter.com)
Free certifications at Skillmeter.com
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Re: Free certifications at Skillmeter.com
Ok, I was going to give this a try, even after several issues, but I completely stopped on the question that asked the output of the following:
none of answers to choose from gave the month as 2 digits, which is what m produces.
It is a nice idea for a site, but this was far from something that says it was professionally done, from the signup form just kicking me back to the home page, complete with the big "Sign up" buttons still there, making me think it broke, to code display issues on questions (ex. clearly showing closing PHP tags then not showing the opening PHP tag before the next section of PHP code. So if you are showing the closing, I expect the opening, otherwise the "output" you ask for will be the actual code you see since PHP was never restarted. Also wording was bad on some questions, like asking "What is the return value of this substr function? " yet you have more than one...
Sorry, nice idea of a site, but as a PHP developer for 12 years, programmer for 20 years, and have taken a few online certification exams, this just really needs a lot of work.
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Ok, I couldn't resist, I continued on, not actually answering them, but looking at the questions....
"If you used $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] function in your page, then what is the return value of this function" $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is NOT a function
You ask about $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] and one of the answers is the IP of the visitor. This is probably what you are looking for, but that is not always the case it is the IP of what is connecting to your script. I use a VPN a lot, so you will get the IP of my server, not my actual IP address. Yes this is nit picking, but you are claiming to certify people as experts, something like that makes a difference.
Ok, so I get to the end, knowing i wouldn't pass as since I got the one question, I just kept choosing the first option on each one...
-Greg
PS. for anyone wanting to try it but don't want to give real info, the site doesn't do any activation, so you don't need to give a real email address
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echo date("Y-m-d:H:i:s",strtotime($datetime));It is a nice idea for a site, but this was far from something that says it was professionally done, from the signup form just kicking me back to the home page, complete with the big "Sign up" buttons still there, making me think it broke, to code display issues on questions (ex. clearly showing closing PHP tags then not showing the opening PHP tag before the next section of PHP code. So if you are showing the closing, I expect the opening, otherwise the "output" you ask for will be the actual code you see since PHP was never restarted. Also wording was bad on some questions, like asking "What is the return value of this substr function? " yet you have more than one...
Sorry, nice idea of a site, but as a PHP developer for 12 years, programmer for 20 years, and have taken a few online certification exams, this just really needs a lot of work.
[Post Edit]
Ok, I couldn't resist, I continued on, not actually answering them, but looking at the questions....
"If you used $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] function in your page, then what is the return value of this function" $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is NOT a function
You ask about $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] and one of the answers is the IP of the visitor. This is probably what you are looking for, but that is not always the case it is the IP of what is connecting to your script. I use a VPN a lot, so you will get the IP of my server, not my actual IP address. Yes this is nit picking, but you are claiming to certify people as experts, something like that makes a difference.
Ok, so I get to the end, knowing i wouldn't pass as since I got the one question, I just kept choosing the first option on each one...
The detailed results was nothing but a bar code showing "46.67%"....Sorry, you failed!
Your result is better than 100% of those who took this test.
Your mark is 50. You can see the detailed results below:
-Greg
PS. for anyone wanting to try it but don't want to give real info, the site doesn't do any activation, so you don't need to give a real email address
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Re: Free certifications at Skillmeter.com
Here are a few other things I noticed.
- Passwords are limited to 30 characters. Why? Are they not hashed?
- Before I can sign up, I must agree to the terms of use. Where are the terms of use?
- There are grammatical mistakes in some of the questions. For example, "Which method is used to getting browser properties?"
- Having to choose "true", "false", or "none of the above" is a bit odd.
Re: Free certifications at Skillmeter.com
Hello!
Thank you all for your valuable feedback! I will soon update the site to implement the corrections you've suggested
Regarding the tests/exams - let me know if any of you would like to become a collaborator and contribute to creating tests (on any technology...).
thank you
SM
Thank you all for your valuable feedback! I will soon update the site to implement the corrections you've suggested
Regarding the tests/exams - let me know if any of you would like to become a collaborator and contribute to creating tests (on any technology...).
thank you
SM
Re: Free certifications at Skillmeter.com
There ought to be a test clients have to take before they are allowed to hire developers.
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Re: Free certifications at Skillmeter.com
Yes definitely!Benjamin wrote:There ought to be a test clients have to take before they are allowed to hire developers.