How can this happen?

Posted by Sara on Fri 14 Jul 2006 12:18 PM — 6 posts, 19,572 views.

#0
I used site XXXXXXXXX for my I.T certifications, I was surprised that the exam questions on my actual exam were exactly the same as provided – I don’t Know how this is happening, can anyone tell me about it?

Post edited by Nick to block out the site.
Amended on Fri 14 Jul 2006 11:04 PM by Nick Gammon
USA #1
Ah... the bots are becoming more clever. Too bad they're not clever enough to avoid posting the same message a month later :)
USA #2
Same message by the same poster, too... this almost looks like there's a human behind it.
Australia Forum Administrator #3
Ah, I didn't initially spot this as a spam message. :(

The frightening thing here is that there will be some people who will pass their IT exams, not on the basis of the knowledge they have, but because they can remember - parrot-fashion - the answers to the questions they got from a cheat sheet.

Just as well airlines have more rigorous tests for their pilots, or I might be truly worried. :)
USA #4
I wouldn't have spotted it as a spam if I hadn't been curious enough to click on the person's bio and notice that the only other post they made was the exact same thing. Damn spammers are getting rather tricky lately.
USA #5
As soon as I saw "IT certification", "exam", and a completely new person, with a completely irrelevant and random question, I was pretty sure it was spam. I'm immediately suspicious of anything with "IT certification" in it. :P