Over the years I find candidate often confuse quiz books, knowledge banks and "testbanks" with outright brain dumps. Wanting as marginally close to the actual questions, if not the questions themselves to be layed out in easily memorized formats instead of learning the material as a whole. This leads to a false sense of security and devalues the overall need to pass an exam for the sake of passing an exam.
What your supposed to be doing is learning all the concepts and materials related to the exam so you become a valuable practitioner backed by the assurance of passing an exam. In other words, the exam is not the ends to means but the means to an end.
If our goal was to simply train people in passing a number of questions on an exam our outcome would be lots of "exam passers" or certified empty exams holders with no real knowledge. Unfortunately, the latter only hurts those practitioners who fully understand the required concepts in the real world making the exam itself less important than the knowledge carried within.
You really need to ask yourself do you want to work and rely on people who know what they are doing or people who can simply pass an exam? I can study over a weekend and pass any IT related exam but does having that type of credential really help my organization?
Learn and know the concepts and the quizzes and test banks will become less important than before. Yes, I say things that may people find uncomfortable. No apologies.
Good luck!
- b/eads
