Python 2.4 online certification - new items available for Beta testing

[NickC]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Randy> There is a free Beta test of a Python 2.4 Certification test
>     Randy> available at Brainbench.com. They are a provider of skills-based
>     Randy> certification exams.  Go to the link below to find the test. It
>     Randy> is free to take the test.
>
>     Randy> http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/common/testcenter/betatests.xml
>
> I've given up on Brainbench.  Ignoring the possibility that their
> certification tests may not be all that useful, they never stopped spamming
> me, so I refuse to help them with anything.
>
> Skip

I went through their first test module (although using a mailinator
address after this testimonial from Skip) and I think "Beta" is
generous. Try "pre-alpha" - i marked nearly half (maybe more than half)
of the 20 questions as "no correct answer", and a number of the others
included sample code that stank to high heaven.

I also pointed out that "what does this code do?" type questions are
pretty pointless for a language that comes with an interactive
interpreter (I would actually be somewhat disappointed with any Python
programmer whose automatic reaction to such a question involving
deliberately obfuscated code *wasn't* to try it out on the nearest
interpreter prompt).