Discussion Question
1.
How can organizations and vendors change their
certification programs to test for skills as well as core knowledge? What
issues might this introduce?
Answer:
They suspected vendors of offering
certification as a marketing ploy and a source of revenue. They accused
managers without technical backgrounds of using certification as “a crutch, a
poor but politically defensible substitute for knowing what and how well one’s
subordinates are doing.”
2.
What are the primary arguments against
certification, and how can certifying bodies change their programs to overcome
these shortcomings?
Answer:
Other organizations are catching on.
Sun Microsystems requires the completion of programming or design assignments
for some of its certification. So, while there is no universal call for
certification or a uniform examination procedure that answers all needs within
the IT profession, certifying bodies are beginning to adapt their programs to
better fulfill the evolving needs for certification in IT.
3.
What are the benefits of certification? How might
certification programs need to change in the future to better serve the needs
of the IT community?
Answer:
Specific IT fields such as project
management and security have a greater need for certification. A call for
training in the field of security workers is expected to continue to grow
rapidly in the next few years in the face of growing treats. Spam, computer
viruses, spyware, botnets, and identity theft have business and government
organizations worried. They want to make sure that their security managers can
protect their data, systems, and resources.
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