Hardest exam

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Ok so obviously what is easy for some is hard for others, and vice-versa ... but anyone got any thoughts on the hardest exam, Microsoft or otherwise?

I'm going for the 70-291!

(actually scrap that, it was Logic Programming (in Prolog) at Uni, closely followed by Computability Theory (Turing Machines, Decidability and that) Didn't have a Scooby. Still don't.)

 

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For me it had to be the CISSP.

 

Any hard science exam at postgrad level ?

Seriously guys, most certs are multiple choice, high pass marks, trick/bad questions, multiple answer questions add difficulty, but often even people with poor understanding can score 50-60%.

Hardest is a subjective term, and is normally a reflection of the breadth of the syllabus, technical difficulty of the subject and preparation of the student.

 

Hardest cert was 70-291 but had a difficult written exam on file systems at uni.

 

VCDX surely? Only about 100 or so VCDX's in the world to date.

 

I was answering from the certification exams I have done never done a postgrad science exam so wouldn't like to say how hard they are I expect they are hard but without doing them would have no real basis to say they were hard.

Out of all the postgrad science exams you done which one would you say you found the hardest?

 

All universities deliver their own courses, so for example a Computer Science degree at Manchester is not the same as a Computer Science degree at Birmingham. It generally goes with what the specialism of the department is, what lecturers are available to teach, and in what depth they teach it relating to the nominal year they are taught in.

A Ph.D. viva is going to trump anything in terms of difficulty, I would reckon. (or, I should know!) Even more so a D.Sc. review, which is like a higher version of a Ph.D. (you get it after your Ph.D. and many years of "thinking")

 

Never heard of a D.Sc before just had a look that would be something to get!!

 

It just occurred to me ... my hardest ever exam was my driving test, which I failed 5 times

 

My NFT when I was 17 (Navigation Flight Test), followed by the CCVP QoS as it was then the CCNP ROUTE is a corker.

Other than that all exam's are easy to pass if you have the right amount of study and practice. I have cheated in all my exams by memorising all of the relevant manuals back to front and labbing like a lunatic, never been caught yet

 

A+............ if you know nothing about computers.

 

The one-shot NT4 > 2000 MCSE upgrade exam was the toughest MS exam I did, on the VMware side it's VCAP4-DCA.

 

Ah the famous 70-291, it was indeed a challenge.

I wish I'd have started sooner on my certification track, would have loved to do the NT4 to 2000 upgrade exam to see how it was like. Oh well...