February 10, 2004 at 1:47 pm
I know this has been kicked around a little, and I bet you all get tired of hearing people gripe about the QOD. But here is an issue that I've heard people mention that I think is certainly worth commenting on, if one of you can spare the time.
Looking at the output from my standings below, you can see that several people have scored 7 to 9 points in the Data Warehousing\Business Intelligence topic, but I have only attempted 6 points. Now I saw people wondering about how this was possible, so one night while watching a fine film on cable, I went through each of the question ids from my browser. In other words, I entered the URL http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/testcenter/QOD_AnswerNewsletterQuestion.asp?Question_id=1, and then http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/testcenter/QOD_AnswerNewsletterQuestion.asp?Question_id=2, and so on until I got all the way up to the current question. Along the way, I answered the ones I had missed before, so I'm pretty confident that I've answered everything I could. So putting this together, I have not attempted all teh DW/BI questions, in spite of the fact that I've attempted all the available questions.
There was once a QOD post that had been apparently posted previously, so those of us who'd answered it the first time around got scored automagically the second time, without a chance to give a new answer (I only remember this because I missed that particular question the first time around due to misreading something about whether 2-part or 3-part names were required or prohibited in SCHEMABINDING views ... something I knew but I was just lazy in reading the question. Things like that stick in my craw. So I noticed the question was familiar, and on my trek through the individual URLs I actually saw that question pop up twice). Any chance that this double-scoring of a question or two is related to the first issue ... that is, related to how there can be more points possible in a specific category for some users than for others?
Thanks for any response. Wish I could just jump on the team and help you resolve it. I've written lots of exam fodder (so I applaud your boldness at doing a daily question in a public forum and then letting people discuss it!), but I don't know that I'd have time to produce a question a day EVERY day! It's a fun part of the community, in spite of our occasional whining - hope it keeps going for a long time!
Cheers,
Chris
February 11, 2004 at 2:24 pm
Thanks for the feedback Chris!
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