You, Me and Dynamics GP
Vaidy has a look at Exam Dumps - Emerging Trend in Dynamics Community. The central thought is that more and more consultants are speed prepping and passing exams without really knowing the material. Make sure to read Vaidy article but I thought I would my own comments.
Exams have a become minimum standard. We expect consultants to have passed the exams. If they haven’t we ask why not?
Great consultants don’t have to have passed exams. For example, in the SQL world, SQL guru Paul Randal holds no certifications. Of course he wrote the DBCC CHECK DB routine in SQL server and he’s one of the teachers of the SQL Server Master Certification. World class expert, no certifications.For the rest of us without Paul Randal’s street cred, a certification shows at least a minimum knowledge.
After my experience with the CPA exam, I’m open to any learning option that helps move people forward. Part of the problem is that often there are only a few extreme options to study for the Dynamics Exams. Immersive classes are expensive and time consuming. Manuals are often overly broad with little relation to what’s on the exam. Practice exams are narrow and specific but they don’t help people really understand the material. For many of the exams, there are very few learning options.
I’m not sure that the process is broken but it feels like it’s incomplete.
