Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!mcnc!ecsvax.uncecs.edu!dukeac!wolves!ggw From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Author seeks help Message-ID: <1989Nov24.035739.23794@wolves.uucp> Date: 24 Nov 89 03:57:39 GMT References: <14468@well.UUCP> <509@rsiatl.UUCP> <227@jove.dec.com> <1989Nov11.225859.16964@cs.rochester.edu> <1989Nov16.052001.1509@wolves.uucp> <7875@ttidca.TTI.COM> Reply-To: ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury) Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: Wolves Den UNIX BBS Lines: 42 In article <7875@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes: >In article <1989Nov16.052001.1509@wolves.uucp> (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes: >}The preliminary information that ^^^^^^^^^^^ (nota bene) >}I have received about these programs indicates that the main emphasis of the >}programs is to provide some kind of reassurance to the BUSINESS community >}that the person holding the title knows about the BUSINESS end of computing, >}which most of those reading this have little or no interest in. : >I think the technical sections of the CDP exam would be trivial for any >hacker worthy of the name. To prepare for the business and management >sections I earned "Professional Designations" in Systems Management and >Systems Analysis from the UCLA Extension program -- two classes a week for >a little over a year. Not my favorite subjects, but doable if you really >want that certificate. This I am glad to hear. I did say that the information was of a "preliminary" nature (meaning - not from the official sources) and that I would be glad to be corrected. I DO appreciate it. >More to the point, the CDP isn't the only certificate issued by the ICCP. >There's also the CCP (Certified Computer Programmer) which is strongly >oriented to the technical, computer science side of the field (too much >math for me, I'm afraid), and the CSA (Certified Systems Analyst) which >has a stronger business orientation. Yes, I was aware of the distinction. >BTW, none of the CDP exams I've seen even mention COBOL, or RPG, in their >technical sections. The questions are at a much more abstract level, >regarding general principles of hardware and software design, maintenance >and use. I should be more careful about characterizing things on the basis of incomplete information. The "study guide" that I saw for the CDP was many years old and had lots of RPG and COBOL stuff in it. It was not an "official" representation of the test in any way, and I probably misunderstood the intent (back then). -- Gregory G. Woodbury Sysop/owner Wolves Den UNIX BBS, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...dukeac!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw@ac.duke.edu ggw%wolves@ac.duke.edu Phone: +1 919 493 1998 (Home) +1 919 684 6126 (Work) [The line eater is a boojum snark! ]