Overall Strategy on Cisco : part one
- March 2nd, 2010
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With the IT certification drawing more and more attention in recent years, a lot of people in the industry plan to take one, many of the candidates though knowing little about even the most basic things such as application, examinations, training and so on. This article is written out of the most popular and typical questions among the previous large number of consultations. With a detailed explanation of those issues which candidates care most, it shows the whole frame of IT certification. Because over 50% certification exams are all Cisco certification, and other IT certification exams are also similar to each other, the article followed takes Cisco 642-812 exam as an example.
1. Enrollment. There are lots of friends who write to us inquiring for all kinds of IT certificates like where to enroll, how many times and when they can sit for exams in a year. About CCNP certification exam, we can tell everyone that you could decide the time of the exam. Why? It begins with the structure of IT certification exams. Cisco authentication is definitely qualification authentication required by Cisco company to its technician people, but the exam is not held by the company itself. It entrusts the exams to professional companies whose service is examination, such as Sylvan, VUE, etc. These companies have more than 100 test centers around the world. These centers contact with each other through the internet and the test results can spread to the entrustor. The cost of commissioned exam is very low for IT companies, therefore, nearly all the IT certification are entrusted to Sylvan, VUE, at the same time, these tow companies also act as agent for the familiar exams, such as GRE, TOEFL, etc.
The exam time is free to decide, because examination centers could test every day in theory. Procedure of 642-812 exam is like this, first of all, get registered and fix the exam time in the centre. 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. As there are much fewer examinees in some places, the exam center will pick out 2 days in a week as exam days to gather the examinees. As a result, you have to refer to the exam center for the exact exam time.
2. Training If we want to attend the test, we must receive training, which is cared by many friends. We can tell you clearly that there’s no relationship between the training and the 642-812 examination. As we mentioned above, Sylvan Test Center is a specialized agency company for examination in the international society, while the training center is a training institution, which is accredit of related IT companies who confer certifications. As both kinds of organizations could apply, the training centers have also applied for becoming exam centers.
Maybe you think that you have a poor foundation and need attend training class. However, you should remember that the current IT certification training are all strengthened teaching, the short training of several days can not make a rookie become a master. Since the thick CCNP certification teaching material with hundreds of pages must be finished within a few days, an average of about 200 pages will be finished everyday. So, if you read all the training book once before training, the training effect will be better for you. The training center is also a business agency, the operation is market-oriented, from where there are good ones as well as bad ones, so choose the training center you can not only care for the pass rate, the real improvement is the most important thing.
Other Popular Exam
642-812 : BCMSN – Building Converged Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks642-892 : Composite642-831 : CCNP’s Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting (CIT)642-901 : BSCI – Building Scaleable Cisco Internetworks642-825 : ISCW – Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks
