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Paper Certs
For all my complaining about the CISSP exam its difficulty has a reason and purpose. ISC2 desperately wants to avoid their certification being devalued in the competitive marketplace of security certifications.
Case-in-point: Microsoft’s “Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer” was considered at least a decent, if not great, certification when first introduced. But because the questions are basic and there is no practical, hands-on portion, a minimum of preparation allows children and adults with no actual experience with the product obtain the certification. Because those certified in this way probably don’t actually no what they’re doing but look good on paper, they are labeled derogatorily as “paper MCSEs”.
A colleague took a Microsoft exam today as he tries to finish achieving his Server 2003 MCSE before they expire it in favor of Server 2008.
He said there were 47 questions or which he got 97% correct because they were all word-for-word identical to the practice exams he took. That is just sad.
