IT Insights Blog — cheat

We've spoken out here before about the damage done — both to IT certification as a whole and to individual careers — by exam candidates who cheat to pass a certification exam. Most people in certification can probably empathize with anyone experiencing the various stresses that cause people to resort to gimmicks and shortcuts to pass an exam. Yet because of the ripple effects of cheating, a certification cheater really is the proverbial bad apple that spoils the whole bunch.

From 1999 to 2005, few people in the world were better at anything than Lance Armstrong was at winning the prestigious Tour de France cycling race. After winning the global showcase event for the first time in 1999, cancer survivor Armstrong went on to win the next six Tour de France events.