MacTech Conference to offer Apple Certification Exams

Actually, no it's not a great idea. Take my word for this: To pass the Apple Exams, you need to study. There are a lot of concepts on the exams and you can't pick them all up in one short session. Or even a long session. Two years ago I took an accelerated (3-day) Leopard Server course from an ACT and then took the exam the afternoon the course ended. Even though I'd passed the Tiger ACTC exam previously and knew what Apple exams are like, I still did not pass. You *must* read the Apple training manuals (from PeachPit) to pass, and with our accelerated course that ran into the evenings, there was not time to do so. There are concepts in the training volumes that you must absorb and that cannot all be transferred in a short period of time. On-the-job learning doesn't necessarily help either; nobody uses all the features of OS X Server and Apple tests you on all parts of it. (Tip: the ACL section is especially tricky; that's what did me in. Nobody I know uses ACLs in real-life, so I kinda wish Apple didn't put so many question in the exam about them. But they do, so consider yourself warned.)