certification on TM1 9.5

[shyam bobburu]

Hi All,

I want to complete my certification on TM1 9.5 developer.
Any one can please help me for the sample questions asked?
Thanks-
Bobburu

[Alan Kirk]

Hi All,

I want to complete my certification on TM1 9.5 developer.
Any one can please help me for the sample questions asked?

The sample questions are rather meagre. I doubt that many people would want to share their experience of the actual test that they took (not specifics, anyway) and I'd imagine that IBM mixes up the question list regularly.

In any case, for what it's worth there's this link.

[Martin Ryan]

In case what you meant was, "Can anyone help me figure out the answers?", the answer is no. The test is not hard for people who know what they are doing and there are already enough TM1 "consultants" out there who don't know what they're doing, so anyone who struggles with these questions will not get any help in these parts.

Martin

[ParisHilton]

In case what you meant was, "Can anyone help me figure out the answers?", the answer is no. The test is not hard for people who know what they are doing and there are already enough TM1 "consultants" out there who don't know what they're doing, so anyone who struggles with these questions will not get any help in these parts.

Martin

I've seen my fair share of TM1 "Consultants" (I prefer to call them work-experience) . Is the 9.5 exam a reasonable indication of competence?
Or could you pass it by regurgitating the online help?

[Martin Ryan]

There are two ways of passing it - knowing your stuff from years of experience, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the help files. Unfortunately the latter will probably get you a higher score. But if someone had passed this exam it'd definitely be a big tick in their favour.

If it were me interviewing though, I'd like to see at least a couple of years experience to go with the qualification.

Martin

[Alan Kirk]

There are two ways of passing it - knowing your stuff from years of experience, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the help files. Unfortunately the latter will probably get you a higher score.

Though even then it's no guarantee of blitzing it given Ibolglix's habit of making up names for concepts in its collective little head and not telling you about it until you see the term in a test. (Remember virtual cubes?) This of course goes hand in hand with their habit of inconsistently naming features because nobody can be bothered to maintain a nomenclature standard (are they "user defined calculations", "user defined consolidations", or "roll-ups"?) so that the same feature can be described different ways in different parts of the documentation, if indeed it's described at all.

[Andy Key]

But if someone had passed this exam it'd definitely be a big tick in their favour.

I'd go for a small tick, and that's only for them being bothered to go and take the exam. When I'm interviewing people and they make a Big Thing of having passed these exams I think it is more of a pointer to the fact that they haven't used TM1 that much, otherwise they would realise that passing them isn't that impressive.