Overall Strategy for Cisco : part one
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. At this moment, more than half of
authentication exams are for Cisco, and it makes no big difference
compared with other IT exams, therefore, we hereby take an example of Cisco 640-802 exam in the following part.
1.
Enrollment articles. Many friends have written us letters to ask where
they can make the registration, how many times in a year and when they
can take the tests about a variety of IT certification exams. About
CCVP 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 certification as we always say is no doubt a qualification
eaxm for technicians from Cisco company, but this certification exam is
not ordered by the company itself, the company consign its
certification exam to exam companies, such as Sylvan, VUE and so on.
These companies have their examination centers in more than 100
countries all over the world, these centers are connected together by
network, and the everyday exam results can be quickly passed to the
databases of entrusted companies. Because of the low cost, almost all
the IT certification exams are entrusted to Sylvan and VUE. Meanwhile,
the two companies are also the agents of GRE,TOEFL,etc.
Exam time is free to decide, because in the theory examination centers can test every day. 640-802
exam process something like this, first you go to test center to
register and make an appointment time. At the exam day, the exam center
will download all the exams for the examinees include you, you just
need to choose yours to exam. However, in some places, because of the
fewer candidates, in order to focus candidates, the examination center
will choose two days in a week as the examination time, so you need to
consult a specific examination time to the examination center.
Second,
training. Whether you must participate in the training in order to be
eligible for the certification exam, is the question many people are
concerned about. We can give you a clear answer here, trainings has no
relationship with 642-436 exam. Even a person without any technical
background can enter the certification exam, of course, he will
definitely fails. As mentioned above, Sylvan exam center is a company
specialized in the agent of holding exams in international arena, while
the training center is the training institute authorized by related IT
enterprises granting certifications. However, these two kinds of
institutes are all in the form of application to join, therefore,
general training centers also apply for examination center
qualification at the same time to facilitate the exam.
Perhaps
you think you are in a poor foundation, and should take the training.
But you have to keep in mind that the current IT certification training
is to strengthen the teaching, that only a few days training is
impossible to make a master out of a rookie. Since hundreds of pages of
thick CCNA materials
must be finished within a few days, with an average of about 200 pages
a day to complete. Therefore, the training will not be efficient if you
don't have comparatively profound knowledge and go over the teaching
material at least one time before you receive training. The training
centers are also commercialized institutions, with unequal ability, but
all oriented at the market. So don’t choose by the throughput rate
merely. The real improvement is the most important.