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MCA Study guide for Dummies

This is very amusing: http://eplanetlabs.com/mca.html

For the MCA programme where you have to work with a mentor for at least 6 months and then sit the review board of 4 inquisiting people, you pay “just $29” and you will “pass on your First attempt”? Yeah, right.

But wait, there is more:
To Succeed in This Certification You Need Not be Technology Expert, Just Buy this Study Guide and Read it Well, You will Pass This Certification Easily, ....We Guarantee it. Success Pass Rating of This Study Guide is 96.8%

I mean, there are less than 100 Microsoft Certified Architects on the planet yet “By reading our MCA Study Guide product thousands of professionals succeeded in their Certification exam

I was disgusted at first but then I found it quite flattering – someone is trying to make a profit out of the MCA programme already!

If all the required years of IT experience didn’t give you enough common sense to avoid such fabulastic offers, you really deserve to buy this stuff!

Published Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:25 AM by mihak

Comments

# re: MCA Study guide for Dummies

Monday, August 14, 2006 9:49 PM by Dean Harding
Did you click on the other certification types? They all have exactly the same text, the just replace "MCA" with "MCSD" or "MCSE". They do change the pass-rate at least. Sometimes "96.8%" sometimes "98.2%".

In fact, it looks like anything in red is the replacement text, and the rest is all canned text.

# re: MCA Study guide for Dummies

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:18 AM by Delphiza
I saw this a while ago when googling MCA.  It's quite funny, and they couldn't even do a proper box shot (http://www.boxshot3d.com). Maybe one of the questions that should be asked in the board review is if the person bought a study guide - immediate termination of review.

# re: MCA Study guide for Dummies

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:19 PM by GregYoung
I am actually morbidly curious on the data they include.

# re: MCA Study guide for Dummies

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:37 PM by mihak

Amazon.com is selling their stuff as well

And there are two comments from highly "satisfied" buyers:

About WebLogic Developer Certification Study Guide by ePlanetLabs:
This product is a fraud. After buying it directly from eplanetlabs.com I received a 464 page document which, by no means, fullfils the necessary content for the BEA developer certification (see links at http://certification.bea.com/certification/dev_certification_reqs.jsp). This certification has three sub-areas: build, portal and integration. The so called guide has some questions, some pages explaining very generally web applications, controls, jpd's and jpf's. It states that those sections will be fully detailed later on the book, but this never happens. Not even a decent section on portal and integration! It has screenshots for weblogic version 6.1, when the certification is on version 8.1. And most of the document (more than 200 pages) are a copy&paste from weblogic administration 7 FAQ! Not to mention that guide on Cactus (what does it have to do with the certification test?!). It is outrageous how these guys have the courage to publish such a piece of phony! (pasted from here)

About RHCE Study Guide by ePlanetLabs:
This solution guide was junk and a waste of money.... It's basically a stream of conciousness pdf file that doesn't contain much relevant information.... In fact a lot of it doesn't even pertain to Red Hat. None of the information is relevant to preparing for the RHCE exam, in fact I showed it to one of my Red Hat instructors and we had a good laugh at just how bad it was. Don't waste your money.... I'm sorry I did. (pasted from here)

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