Sounds to me like the real problem was in the test. If someone can get by without actually absorbing the material then they should be given the pass, if they can't then it's a different story. Of course as soon as the program starts answering test questions or something like that it is a different matter but to spend less time than required and still pass means that either the test is inadequate or the course is needlessly fluffy.
Because while company A is lobbying for change through the front door, company B is eating A's lunch by innocuously bending the law through the back door.
History won't remember that A did the right thing; only that B made it to their next round of funding and A folded.
