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Originally Posted by dhecker
Well, now I'm even more shocked.
After calling ICCP and registering (she person on the phone wrote down all my information including credit card info with a pencil, and it will be 'data entried' tomorrow!!) I went on the Bird Publication site for prep materials.
They have an ordinary online store. I bought the prep materials, checked out, got my confirmation, then realized I had never paid!
I called the customer service number but got a very personal sounding answering machine ('you've reached the Bird family'). So, I sent an email. I got an email back saying that they will create an Ebay auction just for this individual purchase, and that once they get confirmation from Ebay they will manually create me a user/password on an FTP server so that /I can download my stuff!
Hmm.. Working with ICCP and Bird it's hard to imagine that these exams are gonna be meaningful or well written. It's 1999 all over again!
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Okay, I'm not an IT/MIS student, but I have been a paid professional in the IT field for 20 years. I've just gotta ask - given the unbelievable lack of technology described above, you're going to trust their study materials for a technical test? I mean, really, if they can't even get realtime EDI right on their own website when most of the major backend providers provide easy-to-integrate APIs, how well can you trust their version of technical study materials?
Why not just go to Amazon and buy a used textbook on the subject? Most courses/tests of this nature are on 'slightly stale' technology anyway, so an inexpensive used textbook would likely cover the material more than adequately. Plus, if you've got a formal textbook to study from and get an answer wrong on the test that you got from the textbook, you'd have grounds to protest the answer being marked wrong. Just a question, not knowcing what may be a viable study source, but I just can't imagine trusting to their version of technical guidance....