MECP Testing?

The test itself is easy also.

yeah its http://members.ce.org/certifications/mecp/exam/practice/basicinstall.asp?ID=2322307

nouseforaname wrote: i don't need that paper hanging on the wall to make myself feel better, but i do need it to make my check a little bigger.

i know EXACTLY what u mean.  i know i dont need any of those certificates because i have a lot of hands on experience and i know how to do everything correctly.  with this i can get a higher up position in a place i am applying for so thats y im getting it also.  i cant believe how little knowledge people have that install stuff at a place i went to.  i even talked to the MANAGER and he didnt how how to correctly wire up speakers. he kept telling me i was wrong(hooking 2 8ohm subs in parallel makes a 4 ohm load on the amp, the manager kept explaining to me that its a 16 ohm load in parallel......kinda dumb). 

it was so ridiculous when i went there. i had 2 blown subs with a warranty on them still.  so i exchanged them for some new infinity subs that were dual voice voils(4 ohm per voice coil).  my amp puts out 500 watts rms at 4 ohms.  the subs can handle 250rms each max.  I wire it up so the subs are 8 ohms each and run them in parallel so it puts the 4 ohm load on the amp, also putting 250watts to each sub.  The manager tries to explain to me how my amp is incompatable with the subs that i am getting.  umm, no? its perfect for the sub setup. this was the highest ranked car audio person in the store, not just on that shift but the whole store. then i went back a few months after that asking for a power line filter for an amp THAT I MADE MYSELF(like went to radio shack, got the resistors and everything and build it myself).  He was trying to explain to me that the only filters there are are groundloop isolators.  well first of all i know thats wrong and 2nd of all, if i build my own amp, i THINK i know a little more what i need for it. he was explaining that the noise isnt comming from the power line, its comming from the RCA conection since its a ground loop.  well first of all, the microphone preamp that i made for my PA system isnt conencted to any other amp, its self powered and i had a speaker conencted to it to test it out...there was NO groundloop what so ever.  the next day i go to an actuall car audio shop and they knew exactly what i needed(the power line filter), and got it for me, i was in and out within 2 minutes.

Oh yeah one last thing.  Someone i know that is in the senior position there(one step below a manager) that sells car audio and has for over 2 years (at that SAME store) tried to explain to me that when the number has a K after it, it means the sound is getting lower in frequency....so by his saying, a 463hz sound is WAY higher than a 20khz sound wave....hmm.

It just REALLY annoys me when even managers that are supposed to be incharge of everything dont know doodie.