Day 218 of writing every day.
With the IT Passport exam just a week away, I have finished reading through the study material and thought I had a pretty solid grasp of what would show up on the test. There’s no better way to assess how ready you are for the real thing than taking a mock test based on actual past exams.
When I gave it a swing, I was a bit surprised at how difficult the test felt. While I had an idea of the concepts and terminology, the multiple choice questions did not make their choices easy to pick from. It requires a fast reading speed to go through the questions and think about which is the correct answer. So it’s reading comprehension and speed reading that’s going to be tested on top of memorizing how terminology is defined.
If there’s something that makes the test frustratingly hard, it’d be how some questions tell you to choose from a few options and which option(s) is/are correct. It feels like a gotcha question some of the time, which makes me wonder what sort of understanding they’re trying to test people on. Is it their understanding of what good practices are, or simply the ability to associate examples of what would fit under the definition of term A and a few of the options look like they’ll go together.
I’m not a trained professional in any sense if the standard is to be something like a dictionary. But I’ll keep practicing to maximize my chances of passing the test.
Thanks for reading!
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