{"id":9631,"date":"2005-11-01T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2005-11-01T18:36:33","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T15:36:33","slug":"free-tests-at-brainbench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/01\/free-tests-at-brainbench\/","title":{"rendered":"Free tests at Brainbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It&#8217;s been a really long while since I looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainbench.com\">Brainbench.com<\/a>.  I used to take a lot of tests an even have few certificates from the early days.  I even remember when it was called something else.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today I got reminded about this huge repository of tests and certifications and I decided to check it out.  Overall there are more than 600 tests that cover a large part of both practical and theoretical computer industry.  Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainbench.com\/xml\/bb\/common\/testcenter\/freetests.xml\">list of free tests<\/a> that you can take.<\/p>\n<p>Just to see if I still have it I took a couple.  And passed.  The results weren&#8217;t as high as they could have been because I wasn&#8217;t fully focusing and I was in the middle of the noisy office, but I am satisfied anyway.  Check the results below, if you are interested enough.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Perl test was the easiest.  Most of the questions could be easily answered with perl interpreter, copy-paste, and a text editor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTest: <strong>Perl<\/strong><br \/>\nDate: <strong>01-Nov-2005<\/strong><br \/>\nScore: <strong>3.53<\/strong><br \/>\nWeights: 100% Perl<br \/>\nElapsed time: <strong>25 min 17 sec<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perl<br \/>\nScore: 3.53<br \/>\nPercentile: <strong>Scored higher than 79% of previous examinees.<\/strong> Demonstrates a clear understanding of many advanced concepts within this topic. Appears capable of mentoring others on most projects in this area. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Strong Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expressions<\/li>\n<li>Functions<\/li>\n<li>Literals<\/li>\n<li>Statements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Weak Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Linux test was a bit more difficult, mainly because it was somewhat outdated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTest: <strong>Linux Administration (General)<\/strong><br \/>\nDate: <strong>01-Nov-2005<\/strong><br \/>\nScore: <strong>3.06<\/strong><br \/>\nWeights: 100% Linux Administration (General)<br \/>\nElapsed time: <strong>17 min 55 sec<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linux Administration (General)<br \/>\nScore: 3.06<br \/>\nPercentile: <strong>Scored higher than 68% of previous examinees.<\/strong> Demonstrates a solid understanding of core concepts within this topic. Appears capable of working on most projects in this area with moderate assistance. May require some initial assistance with advanced concepts, however.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strong Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Configuration and Administration<\/li>\n<li>System Administration and Security<\/li>\n<li>Networking<\/li>\n<li>Installation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Weak Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>None noted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It&#8217;s been a really long while since I looked at Brainbench.com. I used to take a lot of tests an even have few certificates from the early days. I even remember when it was called something else. Anyway, today I got reminded about this huge repository of tests and certifications and I decided to check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/01\/free-tests-at-brainbench\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free tests at Brainbench<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2,62],"tags":[663,17],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","category-technology","tag-tests","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9748,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/10\/daily-del-icio-us-bookmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":9631,"position":0},"title":"Daily del.icio.us bookmarks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-12-09 Blog of Alexander Mamtchenkov \u00c2\u00bb Kontact + MS Exchange + MS ADI Tagged as: configuration guide kde linux microsoft windows RSS Parsers -- List of RSS parsers in several languages Tagged as: code development links perl php programming python rss syndication xml\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9538,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/07\/daily-del-icio-us-bookmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":9631,"position":1},"title":"Daily del.icio.us bookmarks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 7, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I have slightly changed the appearence of the links in daily del.icio.us dumps. 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