About a month ago, I was asked to write a review of UCertify?s services (their website is located at www.ucertify.com). UCertify is a certification test preparation service for taking various information technology related certification tests.
The IT industry in past years has become highly standardized and this means that many certification tests have evolved to enable people to prove that their skills are at par. Certifications tend to provide a higher probability that the person who passed will obtain a better job and will be able to perform at the job?s expectations. Certifications tend to require renewal every 5-10 years as well to ensure that the person who is certified remains knowledgeable in the ever evolving technology that surrounds them.
I might as well add in that I am not certified in anything at this point in time, but I have a computer science degree (BS and MS) from an accredited university. I tend to do IT work solely as a hobby, since my true abilities are in programming, and the theory around programming and how computers work. The difference between IT and CS is simply the amount of math and theory that you have to learn about. IT is basically really simplified practical computer science if you ask me.
Now for an actual review of UCertify. They were kind enough to provide me with a full access license to their Windows Exam (MCTS) Preparation Kit. I had to download a 15MB program that installed itself to my computer and then provided me with a nice user interface to begin learning the components of the exam. The interface was very simple and easy to understand, it was broken into a learning mode (which starts at the basics and advances) and a test mode. In learning mode, you?re simply learning about what general windows administrators need to know, there are also several quiz questions to verify that you understand what you read. In test mode, you can answer several questions and attempt to meet a goal (like a passing score for example).
I only went through a very small subset of both sections, but I was surprised to see some material that I wasn?t entirely familiar with (although I?ve heard of it), with this said, I?d strongly recommend the service as a whole for someone who needs to get certified. Certification exams assume that you will need to know everything at some point, so they test for just about everything. Unfortunately, many uncertified professionals are only exposed to what they need to know, so sometimes it can take a few minutes for someone such as me to arrive at the same conclusion that a certified person might already know. In any event, certification in the relevant field almost always guarantees that a candidate can get a specified job before someone who is uncertified for the same position.
I?d like to thank Manjari from UCertify for contacting me about this service, if you have any questions about their service, I?d suggest you email him directly at manjari [at/@] ucertify [./dot] com. I learned a little from what I have done with the service and who knows, it might even help me in the future. Hopefully this can be useful for some of my readers out there. Finally, for all of the skeptics out there, I wasn?t paid to write this review although I did get temporary free access to the windows certification prepkit to review it.
Tags: certification, prepkit, ucertify
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