In recent years, IT certification receives more and more public attention, and many industry friends have a plan for certification test. But many candidates are not familiar with the most basic problems such as registration, examinations, training, etc. I wrote this article according to the most typical and most frequently asked questions we had received from all the consultations to give answers to those questions which the examinees concern most in order to let you have a very clear image of the structure of IT authenticating examinations. Because more than half of the certification exams are Cisco certification at present, and other IT certification exams are more or less the same, so we take Cisco 642-845 exam as an example.
1. Application. Many people wrote to me asking where they could apply for the various IT authenticating examinations, how many times they could apply for in a single year’s time and at what specific time they could take the examination. Regarding CCNP authentication exam, we can tell you like this, whenever you like to take the exam is acceptable. Why? It has to start from the structure of exams. Cisco certification is a kind of identification certification held by Cisco company for its staff, but the certification exam is not held by the company itself. Cisco company entrusts its certification exam to the companies engaging in holding exams, such as Sylvan, VUE, etc. These companies have got exam centers in more than 100 countries around the world and these exam centers are connected with one another via internet so that exam results are able to be in no time transmitted to the database of the entrusted companies every day. The cost of entrusting exams is very low to IT corporations so nearly all the IT certificate exams have been entrusted to Sylvan and VUE, both of which, at the same time, have been also entrusted with GRE, TOEFL, etc familiar to us.
Exam could be taken any time because in theory the centres have exams everyday. The 642-845 exam process is probably like this, you go to the test center at first, register and make the test time. On the exam day, the exam center will download the tests for all the examinees including you and you just need choose yours to sit for the exam. But there are a small number of candidates in some places, therefore, the exam center will choose two examination days in a week to gather the candidates, in this way, you need ask the examination center for specific exam time.
2. Training If we want to attend the test, we must receive training, which is cared by many friends. Now, we answer you clearly that you don’t have to attend the training. Even if you know nothing about the exam, you still can attend it. Of course, it will be very different for you to pass it. As above mentioned,Sylvan exam centre is an international exam agent, and training center is an organization authourized by relevant IT enterprises who issues certificate.
However both of the agencies are formed for joining, so some training center has asked for the qualification to hold exams for convenience. Maybe you think your base is not very well, and you should take training course. But you should remember, the present IT certification exam are strenghthen the teaching, just take a few days training, a rookie can become a master is impossible.
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