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Certification at Brisbane MySQL User Group!

Tonight is the night, many members of the local MySQL User Group here will be taking their first MySQL Certification exam. I arranged for a special deal with our certification manager Carsten Pedersen, if we do the test on paper (rather than at a VUE testing center) it can be done cheaper. So I now have a stack of exam papers here ready to go! They’re computer-generated: different questions from each category, and random ordering. So cheating becomes way more difficult, even if you were able to take a peek at your neighbour’s sheet 😉 The core certification test has about 70 questions, and candidates have a maximum of 90 minutes to complete the exam. Other people on planetmysql have written about their experiences taking the tests….

We’ll see how it goes tonight, but I reckon we can definitely do this at other MySQL User Groups where there is a MySQL AB person present who can manage the exam. Interested, anyone?

And we’ll also have on-site certification exams at the MySQL Users Conference 2006, of course.

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  1. Neat! How much cheaper? For core certification, or professional, too? (this is Sheeri Kritzer, by the way)

  2. We’re doing it for the equivalent of USD 50. These are the MySQL 4 (4.1) exams still, but there will be upgrade exams for 5.0 and in the end you take the same # of exams. However, we don’t yet know the MySQL 5.0 exam pricing, so the special deal the price of USD 50 may change.

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