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Gea-Suan Lin

arXiv 要搬到 GCP 上

在「arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud (arxiv.org)」這邊看到 arXiv 搬到 GCP 的消息，是出自他們的徵才頁面：「Careers at arXiv - arXiv info」。 We are already underway on the arXiv CE ("Cloud Edition") project. This is a project to re-home all arXiv services from VMs at Cornell to a cloud provider (Google Cloud). 不過看 Hacker News 上的 comment，似乎是受到 Trump 政府對大學資金政策的影響，這些職缺目…

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Gea-Suan Lin's BLOG · arXiv 要搬到 GCP 上在「arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud (arxiv.org)」這邊看到 arXiv 搬到 GCP 的消息，是出自他們的徵才頁面：「Careers at arXiv - arXiv info」。 We are already underway on the arXiv CE (Cloud Edition) project.
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ferricoxide

This morning, I asked my project-mate (who's been asked to do the similar certification-path that I've been asked to do):

Have you yet gotten back a detailing of your test results (e.g., how AWS breaks down test questions into domains and how you scored on each domain)?
He'd replied back that there was a blurb on his (administered at home) test's exits screens indicating that you only get such a breakdown if you fail your test. I was a touch incredulous. I mean maybe that makes a degree of sense if the certification-test you just sat was a "there's no more in-depth, overlapping certifications after this one" (e.g., #AWS's "Practitioner" → "Associate" → "Professional" or "Specialist" certification paths; I know #RedHat has/had similar and I think #Azure does as well). However, if it is a certification that overlaps with other ones, you probably want to know if you have any knowledge-gaps before trying to sit those other exams, neh?

…Or, if you're a perfectionist like me, you simply want to know what gaps you have so that you can kill them (especially for a cert that will eventually expire and you'll need to re-sit).

Thus far, everything about the #GCP certification process has left me frustrated and bewildered by how half-assed Google's approach has seemed to both the exams, themselves, and the processes around getting ready for said exams.

#WTF
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ferricoxide

Late yesterday morning, I sat my #GCP #ACE test. The process for signing up for the sitting suuuuuuuuuuuuucked – and, unlike when you finish your #AWS certification tests, there's no survey questions about how easy it was to schedule your GCP test.

One of my project-mates had sat his ACE test this Friday past. I think he did the take-at-home test …which I think Google and #WebAssessor both really expect you to do. He got his pass/fail notifcation a few hours later.

I, however, prefer to take tests in person at a testing facility, due to a couple reasons:

1. My house is small and is quite cluttered, both due to who I'm married to and not having enough storage space. At any rate, on prior attempts to use home-based testing, some test-vendors have deemed my workroom as "too cluttered"

2. There's two testing centers within a 4-minute drive of my house. They're actually both on the same street, it's just that for the one, I need to turn right at the last major intersection, whereas I need to turn left for the other.

3. In order to test at home, I typically have to install the testing-vendor's "secure browser" and I don't like installing vendor-specific software – that can often amount to malware – on my laptop

4. Further, for testing at home, I typically have to (re)enable my laptop's camera and microphone …which is something I'm really averse to, possibly even more than installing vendor-specific testing-software
so I've generally opted to go to a testing-center, since there's two withing a 4min drive of my house.

Not only did my results not com in last night, they still hadn't arrived when I checked my email throughout this morning. Further, when I checked the two (seriously, Google???) sites I'd had to work with to purchase/schedule my exam, neither was showing any evidence that I'd even sat my exam, let alone a pass/fail indicator. I don't know if my choosing to take my test at a testing facility was responsible/contributory or not, but my results (I passed) didn't arrive until a couple minutes ago.

Oh well, at least one more exam to study for, scheduled, sit and (hopefully on the first sitting) pass.

CredlyAssociate Cloud Engineer Certification was issued by Google Cloud to Thomas Jones.Associate Cloud Engineers deploy applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions. They use Google Cloud Console and the command-line interface to perform common platform-based tasks to maintain one or more deployed solutions that leverage Google-managed or self-managed services on Google Cloud.
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