000-418 DataStage v.8 Practice

nwolfe88 · Post by **nwolfe88** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:01 am

Hello all,
I'm looking to get certified in DataStage in the near future and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a legitimate practice test for the 000-418 exam? I've seen things online like passguaranteed.com and things like that but they seem a bit sketchy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:10 am

IBM Certification page for 8.0 and 8.5

nwolfe88 · Post by **nwolfe88** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:30 am

I've seen that practice test, but it's only ten questions. I was wondering if anyone knew of a good one with lots more questions to give me more of a broad understanding.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:09 am

Only of the 'sketchy' variety.

viewtopic.php?t=136247

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:04 pm

Apparently Prometric do offer a "ten dollar exam", though I'm not sure whether that's available for DataStage. Could be worth checking out, though.

cppwiz · Post by **cppwiz** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:03 am

I've taken the IBM official practice test for the 000-421 DataStage 8.5 exam and it's worth the time, especially if you have never taken an IBM exam before. Here is the link to access the IBM official practice exam:

http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/sam421.shtml

As Ray stated, it's an online exam proctored throught the Prometric web site. It will give you a flavor for the actual exam. I hit the print screen key and pasted some of the questions and answers into a Word document for post-exam research and this really helped me to separate the differences in some of the answers. So its greatest benefit to me was as a study tool and not necessarily as a true assessment.

Note that IBM is continuing to offer a "Take It Again" program to allow you to take the same exam a second time if you fail it the first time. Here is the link to that program:

http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/process/tia.shtml

Between the practice test and the "Take It Again" program, you should be able to pass this exam. Good luck!