Certification - December 2008 - (Page 34) FIGURE 5: DOLLARS SPENT ON COURSE MATERIALS None $49 or less $50 to $99 $100 to $199 $200 to $299 $300 to $399 $400 to $499 $500 to $999 $1,000 to $1,999 $2,000 to $2,999 $3,000 to $3,999 $4,000 to $4,999 $5,000 to $5,999 $6,000 to $9,999 $10,000 to $14,999 $15,000 or more 0 18.0% 7.0% 14.2% 19.9% 11.7% 6.3% 4.5% 8.5% 4.3% 2.1% 1.4% 0.7% 0.6% 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% 10 20 30 40 50 Percentage of Respondents When studying for the exam, respondents found that self-study books (72 percent), practice exams (69.9 percent) and on-the-job training (66.8 percent) were extremely valuable or very valuable, just as respondents did in last year’s survey. The fourth, fifth and sixth most popular resources were instructorled training at a training center (47.5 percent), computer-based training and simulations (46.7 percent) and product documentation (45.7 percent). The least-valuable study materials respondents were Internet mailing lists/news groups and brain-dump sites, with 16.3 percent of respondents saying the former was less valuable or not valuable and 13.2 percent saying the same of the latter. This was a change from last year, when community and technical college courses made the list of least-valuable resources. Surprisingly, all of the study materials had levels of nonuse. The majority of respondents did not use community and technical college courses (53.3 percent), vendor-authorized boot camps (50.3 percent) or online university and e-learning (44.9 percent). From the highest to lowest level of nonuse were brain dumps, Internet mailing lists and news groups, instructor-led training at a training center, computer-based training or simulations, product documentation, onthe-job training, practice exams and self-study books. It seems that the resources, though, are getting slightly better over time. Almost 69 percent of you said the quality of learning materials was very good or excellent; 62.8 percent said the overall quality of their educational experiences were very good or excel- FIGURE 6: DOLLARS SPENT ON TRAINING None $49 or less $50 to $99 $100 to $199 $200 to $299 $300 to $399 $400 to $499 $500 to $999 $1,000 to $1,999 $2,000 to $2,999 $3,000 to $3,999 $4,000 to $4,999 $5,000 to $5,999 $6,000 to $9,999 $10,000 to $14,999 $15,000 or more 0 42.7% 2.1% 1.4% 2.8% 1.8% 1.6% 1.2% 4.3% 10.4% 13.3% 9.4% 3.5% 2.7% 1.7% 0.6% 0.6% 10 20 30 40 50 Percentage of Respondents CERTIFICATION MAGAZINE December 2008
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