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    andre
    wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 10:19 last edited by
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    [quote author="Gerolf" date="1300097783"]I think, it was half the price, right?
    And as Andre said:

    No seperate place, just go there to the test center which was located at the hotel and do the test :-)[/quote]

    Yeah, I paid half price in 2009 for the Essentials test there (not sure how much that one was in 2010), and nothing to take the Beta tests for the advanced certification. However, as they say here for stock-related commercials: results in the past are no guarantee for those in the future. You don't know for sure if there is going to be a test center again this year, nor if they will have reduced fees to take the tests.

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      swhweng
      wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 10:53 last edited by
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      Hey!
      QtDevDays looks awesome!
      I understand more than 80% of things that are going there.
      But they stopped to meet, didn't they? Why?
      I try to contribute as much as I can to the community.
      I'd like to get some kind of official registraton and test passing so as not to be "who knows who is this guy?"
      The maybe surprising thing is that I've learned software development by myself.
      Is it possible to get acquired by somebody if I really know to develop, I understand the things
      but I have no appropriated academical document?
      Pavel
      14.03.2011

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        andre
        wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 11:04 last edited by
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        [quote author="Pavel Mazniker" date="1300099989"]Hey!
        QtDevDays looks awesome!
        I understand more than 80% of things that are going there.
        But they stopped to meet, didn't they? Why?[/quote]
        How do you gather that? I fully expect there to be a 2011 edition!
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        I try to contribute as much as I can to the community.
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        Sounds like an excellent idea :)
        [quote]
        I'd like to get some kind of official registraton and test passing so as not to be "who knows who is this guy?"
        The maybe surprising thing is that I've learned software development by myself.
        Is it possible to get acquired by somebody if I really know to develop, I understand the things
        but I have no appropriated academical document?
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        Actually, I feel that this is quite a common situation. A lot of people have learned programming for themselves, gathering information whereever they could. I started programming on a C-64 back in those days myself, based on just some books and a lot of experimenting. I did get some formal training later on, but that did not teach me much new stuff, at least not on the actual programming part. Getting certification can be a way to prove that you have a good basis in programming and Qt especially, but it is not the only way. Also consider showcasing to the world what you are up to, for instance by becoming a contributor to a KDE or other open source project.

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          swhweng
          wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 11:08 last edited by
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          Ok
          Thank you.
          It is better to be certified from trusted source in 100% cases I am sure.
          I continue to try to get certified.
          Be in touch!

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            swhweng
            wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 11:12 last edited by
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            Actually I am interesting in very specific applications development
            when I see the need in it, when I see the exact usage and of course customers
            Not all open source projects have a great usage.
            So for KDE I do not contribute but I'll take a look what is going on there.

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              VladimirMinenko
              wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 13:06 last edited by
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              @Pavel.
              Concerning the role of Pearson VUE.
              Pearson VUE delivers exams world-wide over a network of test centers. Around 3000 test centers delivering Qt exams today. Pearson VUE does this for many other customers, e.g. Adobe. They are no idea of Qt as technology and so do not provide any training. They have a broad and long term experience with delivering exams. This is why we use their service.
              Online exams.
              People ask this again and again. We have started the program with exams available in a test center only. This provides the max possible level of security. "Security" means here making sure that it is not easy to cheat, fake ID and do other bad things. The rational is simple: the least what you would like to see is that your exam has no value anyway since it is so easy to cheat or get somebody to do it for you on the web. Certainly, there can be some other use case other exams/test on the web. We have this on the todo list... together with other things...
              Your account
              I've checked our records. There is an account assigned to your name. It was created quite some while ago. I will send your ID per email. Call Pearson (see "this link":http://www.pearsonvue.com/nokiaqt/contact/), refer to this ID and ask to reset your password on the web.
              Local test center
              An older list of all test centers shows that "Computer Academy STEP" ran a Pearson test center in Nikolaev. It is not listed today for some reasons. Maybe it makes sense to contact them and ask how they can support you in Nikolaev.

              --
              Vladimir

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                swhweng
                wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 16:01 last edited by
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                Hi
                Thank you Vladimir,
                Qt is very powerfull really state of the art tool you never find.
                It is fact.
                I develop using Qt very seriously and I regard to thing very carefully.
                I will try to contact "Computer STEP Academy" also but it looks they do not know about Qt at all, they look like very poor and undeveloped as a lot of things in Ukraine. I do not think they work with Pearson VUE
                I prefer to be in touch with much more developed institution and people around the world.

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                  VladimirMinenko
                  wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 16:12 last edited by
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                  Not sure, I was clear. “Computer STEP Academy” is one of the test centers under contract with Pearson. Like any other, they just run exams, and possibly have no idea what exams are about. There are other companies and communities with Qt know-how.

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                  Vladimir

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                    giesbert
                    wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 16:17 last edited by
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                    Hi Pavel,

                    the institutes running the tests do not do courses.
                    The tests are computer based, so the test centers need no Qt knowledge at all.

                    Nokia Certified Qt Specialist.
                    Programming Is Like Sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)

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                      swhweng
                      wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 16:18 last edited by
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                      Are you sure they under contract with Pearson?
                      Nevertheless I can check at the place, so you shouldn't care about the thing.

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                        andre
                        wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 16:29 last edited by
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                        I split off a completely unrelated posting from Pavel containing two questions on Qt usage/roadmap to this new thread: "Sound and the using of the Resource system":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/4468/

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                          goetz
                          wrote on 14 Mar 2011, 16:44 last edited by
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                          The online site on http://www.pearsonvue.com lists "Computer Academy Step - Nikolaev" in Nikolaev as a test center. (click on locate a test center, choos "Nokia Qt" as testing program, select Ukraine for the country).

                          Anything wrong with the result? Did you search yourself already?

                          http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                            swhweng
                            wrote on 15 Mar 2011, 13:18 last edited by
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                            [quote author="Volker" date="1300121096"]The online site on http://www.pearsonvue.com lists "Computer Academy Step - Nikolaev" in Nikolaev as a test center. (click on locate a test center, choos "Nokia Qt" as testing program, select Ukraine for the country).

                            Anything wrong with the result? Did you search yourself already?[/quote]

                            Yes, of course:
                            http://www9.pearsonvue.com/Dispatcher?application=VTCLocator&action=actStartApp&v=W2L&cid=552

                            Thank you!

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                              swhweng
                              wrote on 15 Mar 2011, 14:21 last edited by
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                              bq. I’ve checked our records. There is an account assigned to your name. It was created quite some while ago. I will send your ID per email. Call Pearson (see this link [pearsonvue.com]), refer to this ID and ask to reset your password on the web.

                              Vladimir! Sorry I do not understand what is going on with my account at Pearson venue - they do not register my email but I can't login also. I need to "retrieve" my account
                              You said call them, to what country to call? Can I contact them by email? How?
                              Pavel
                              15.03.2011

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                                andre
                                wrote on 15 Mar 2011, 16:25 last edited by
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                                [quote author="Pavel Mazniker" date="1300198884"]You said call them, to what country to call? Can I contact them by email? How?[/quote]
                                Their numbers are listed on the website. Really. I know, because I had to call them not too long ago too. They have access numbers in most countries it seemed, though i think I got redirected to a call center abroad.

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