In Brazil, and specifically in the academic field, there is a unified proof (that is, applied throughout the national territory - and in some neighboring countries, such as Peru) called National Graduate Examination for Computer Postgraduate Diploma (POSCOMP) . p>
This exam is organized by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and aims to evaluate candidates for post- in the country. The test evaluates knowledge in three fields - mathematics, fundamentals of computing (theory) and computing technology (systems and applications) - distributed in 70 multiple choice questions. The subjects covered are part of the Computer Science curriculum of the main Brazilian universities and colleges, and therefore do not evaluate the author in a specific technology, but as a form of general knowledge (although it is common to fall into the field of technology questions about SQL , syntax of languages like C ++ and Java, etc.).
Candidates are not "approved" or "disapproved" in the test. They receive individually (there is no general classification table) their evaluation in terms of the score obtained (hits per field) compared to the mean and standard deviation of the country. I think it's worth a year (until the next test), but I did not find this information on the site to confirm. The individual result is not mandatory in many of the universities, serving only as an additional criterion for the selection of candidates. I also have no information about its use in other contexts.
The exam is considered quite difficult, averaging just over
30% accuracy in your questions (source:
Wikipedia ).
