ferricoxide<p><span>Late yesterday morning, I sat my </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/GCP" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GCP</a><span> </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/ACE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACE</a><span> test. The process for signing up for the sitting suuuuuuuuuuuuucked – and, unlike when you finish your </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/AWS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWS</a><span> certification tests, there's no survey questions about how easy it was to schedule your GCP test.<br><br>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 </span><a href="https://evil.social/tags/WebAssessor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WebAssessor</a><span> both </span><i><span>really</span></i><span> expect you to do. He got his pass/fail notifcation a few hours later.<br><br>I, however, prefer to take tests in person at a testing facility, due to a couple reasons:<br><br>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"<br><br>2. There's </span><i><span>two</span></i><span> 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.<br><br>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<br><br>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<br>so I've generally opted to go to a testing-center, since there's two withing a 4min drive of my house.<br><br>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 </span><i><span>two</span></i><span> (seriously, Google???) sites I'd had to work with to purchase/schedule my exam, neither was showing any evidence that I'd even </span><i><span>sat</span></i><span> 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 </span><i><span>my</span></i><span> results (</span><a href="https://www.credly.com/badges/77457552-42e7-48cc-929a-f77c829ddf27/public_url" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>I passed</span></a><span>) didn't arrive until a couple minutes ago.<br><br>Oh well, at least one more exam to study for, scheduled, sit and (hopefully on the first sitting) pass.</span></p>