Re: Pearson Vue

Brad, I wish we could share your confidence but recall on exams ie CCSP when there is an error and you open a ticket with Cisco they refuse to acknowledge they are wrong, refuse to give the points to you and the result is you are wasting your time they don't care about much besides getting paid.

--- On Wed, 3/17/10, Nadeem Rafi <nrafia_at_gmail.com> wrote:

From: Nadeem Rafi <nrafia_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pearson Vue
To: "Brad Ellis" <brad_at_ccbootcamp.com>
Cc: "Muzammil Malick" <malickmuz_at_gmail.com>, "Cisco certification" <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 1:20 PM

Thats a good move. it will help every one to be able to save time and money
by going to VUE. Any one knows about availability on other places?

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Brad Ellis <brad_at_ccbootcamp.com> wrote:

> Muzammil,
>
> I had the same question when this was announced. The test should be
> written in a way in that you don't have questions that would require a
> CCIE (or technical person) as the proctor. If the exam is solid, and I
> believe it will be, then it should work fine - and if you have
> questions/comments/concerns during the exam, I'm sure you'll be able to
> leave them somewhere as feedback. The exam team at Cisco has spent a lot
> of time preparing for this and I'm made sure they have these types of
> details thought out.
>
> thanks,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Muzammil Malick
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:30 AM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: Pearson Vue
>
> Hi Guys
>
> I am booked to take R&S lab on the 19th April in London through Pearson
> Vue.
> I received an email yesterday from Vue which was essentially preparing
> me
> for the exam,
> punctuality, lunch etc. etc.
>
> The interesting thing I noticed was that they has a section for proctors
> and
> this is what it says
>
> Role of Proctors
> "The PPC proctors are trained and instructed on proper management of the
> testing experience, but are not professional network engineers. You may
> not
> ask the proctors questions about the exam content or ask them to clarify
> a
> question you do not understand. Their role is to manage the testing
> facility, ensure exam security and escalate any connectivity issues to
> Cisco
> engineers located offsite."
>
> Now I have only had one attempt before and my proctors were both CCIEs.
> This
> also seems to be saying that they will not clarify questions and it
> sounds
> like they will not understand the questions anyway.
>
> Should i be worried about asking the proctor to clarify certain things
> and
> this is just rules for rules sake or do you think that I will have to
> ignore
> the proctor until I have a hardware problem etc.? Or am I wrong to think
> that the proctor should clarify certain things in the first place.
>
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