[Qt-interest] Qt Essentials Exam

[David Ching]

"Andre Somers" <andre at familiesomers.nl> wrote in message 
news:4B0E5606.5030707 at familiesomers.nl...
> Hi, I took the same test in the Münich version of the DevDays, and I also 
> passed. I had expected to pass, but I found the level of the questions 
> differed a lot. Some were very basic, some were quite tricky and required 
> quite a good understanding of things like event handling (that you don't 
> need all that often for basic stuff anyway).
>
> It's a pitty you don't get feedback on how well you passed the test. IMHO, 
> there is a difference between a 100% and a 60% score, while both may be a 
> "pass".
>
> The people on the DevDays were among the first to take the test; even the 
> KDAB guys took the test there, I noticed.
>
> André
> - now also Nokia Certified Qt Developer :-)
>

Congratulations, and if nothing else we now have some Qt questions we can 
ask on interviews!  ;)  It seems some people making these test questions 
don't care whether the topic is used a lot.  But somehow the fact that you 
know the answer means you also know things you do use a lot so the question 
is relevant to every day programming.  Maybe that's what happened on this 
test.

For example, when I interviewed at Microsoft, most of the technical 
questions involved string manipulation, such as writing a regular expression 
evaluator.  Of course I was not being hired to do that, but the fact I 
stumbled through and got probably 70% of it working code with some hints 
they took to mean I knew what I was doing.  Though I did not get the job, 
but they said the reason was I did not have the management experience they 
were looking for, my technical was good.

-- David