work is requiring everyone on our team get the az-900 certification. i passed it yesterday.
this is mostly the basic "can you sell azure to people" course rather than going into too much detail of all the aspects of it, but there's still a lot of stuff you have to keep in your head at one time 1, which is a problem for me with memory issues
and i look at the graph above, and wonder how much more i would have struggled with my old method of big monolithic notes in an app that doesn't allow for flexibly linking things together, rather than easily jumping to topics (which i was doing even on the bus to the test centre).
how much more useful my old notes on the windows server 2012 exams would be if broken out and i could actually update them for any changes in newer versions of windows that i needed to know about
(do want to go and break them out of my old notes app at some point, but no idea when I'll have the energy)
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i still think most IT certs should be open book tests as a reflection of how much of the role can be efficiently searching or testing in a VM.
there is no real world situation where i will need to remember the number of pins on a floppy disk connector and cannot use one of the many computers around me to find that information - but i remember this is a real question the comptia a+ asked at a time when floppies hadn't been in general usage for non-industrial purposes for at least a decade, and i'm still pissed off that they even asked the question