Many people holding impractical expectations to participate in the certification exams of Cisco are usually ending with frustration. Many people owned below expectations before participating in certification exams:

• CompTIA Security+ certification is the only way to bring me a job in IT industry;
• to be a CompTIA Security+ is to be successful；
• Once getting the CompTIA Security+ certification, I will get my dream job;
• CompTIA Security+ is the rule of IT industry;
• CompTIA Security+ is a gold mine.

Does CompTIA Security+ certification really play such a big role? Maybe one has unrealistic expectations because he misunderstands the certification.

In fact, certificate examination, take the example of CompTIA SY0-201, is only used to assess a candidate’ knowledge of certain software, his logical thinking ability and problem resolution ability. However, nearly every client or emplor hopes you are experienced and skillful. But a certificate exam certainly will not increase your practical experience.

Further more, SY0-201 is mainly concerned with technical skills, you can not able to acheive success in the IT industry only by skill. So, if you want to get the big success in IT industy, you not only need to master certain skills, but also need many other knowledges, such as interpersonal relationship, negotiation skills, teamwork, etc.

Anyway, you should think through before you take the examination, and make sure you have enough time and resource for the examination. You might as well try to gain more practical experience from the media, internet and even from your boss.

Relate Exam:

SY0-201 : CompTIA Security+ (2008 Edition) Exam
sy0-101 : SECURITY+ CERTIFICATION EXAM
BR0-002 : CompTIA Network + Bridge Exam

With the rapid development of network, there is a growing of the demand for network engineers with an unprecedented rapid, and a soaring demand for educating and testing network engineers. So, what kinds of Cisco Certificate Test are there presently? How to attend Cisco Certificate Test?

People who have been through the international certificates about computers may probably know the exam company named Prometric. Prometric Examination Company is the largest international computerized test authentication services company, it has established 4000 Authorization Test Center (APTC) in the global, in charge of providing the IT Industry Certification Exam. This company setted up Authorized Exam Center (ATPC) in many major cities of countries over the world, in charge of providing the IT Industry Certification Exams, and can provide the Certification Exams of the world famous IT companies for examinees, including: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Sun HP, Linux, Adobe, IBM/Lotus, Intel, Lucent, SCO, Novell,Compaq…

Cisco certification exams are carried out under the environment of computer networked. Cisco puts its exams database into the system of Prometric, and then Prometric’s testing system will generate different exams for every registered candidate. As the knowledge is developing too fast, the Cisco test database will also be updated according to its updated new products.

Take CCNP certification for example, the form of the tests can be divided into the standard test and the the self-adapting test. Because the adaptive exam is a new test technology, and makes the computer in the exam no longer a mere recipient of the information. In some level, it can intelligently analyze and judge the knowledge scope of the exam – takers and how much they have really mastered at real time in accordance with their answers to decide the degree of difficulty of the next test. In the Cisco 642-901 examination, first comes a medium difficult question, if the answer is right, the next one will be more difficult, if not, the next question will be easier; the examinee is not allowed to check the already done questions. This kind of test largely avoids mechanical memorizing and prevents the examination questions from leaking, it really plays a part in examining to what degree has the examinee understood the concepts, and now more and more certification exams adopt this kind of test.

At present, IT certificate test’s main item types are choice question( simple, multiple and undefined choices), situational question, drag question and experimental question. 642-901 without exeption. After examination the word pass or no pass will be shown on the computer, and your transcripts will be printed out with the mark of every kind of skills on it. You can know your strong and week points so that you may make up for it.

You may like these Exam:

642-821 : CCNP’s Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN)
642-825 : ISCW – Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks
642-811 : CCNP’s Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)
642-901 : BSCI – Building Scaleable Cisco Internetworks
642-892 : Composite
642-831 : CCNP’s Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting (CIT)

3. Test articles. Cisco 352-001 in the way various certification exams are computer-based testing used, the examination results can be after the end, whether through immediately know. The examination centre would upload the intraday test result to the center server of examination company after the everyday test finished, the examination company would pass the disposed result to the exam-commission IT company to decide whether or not to award the authentication. Because it is computer-based and the results are immediately accessed to, all the examination questions are objective related, of which more than 80% of multiple-choice questions. Other kinds of questions are dragging question (that is to drag the choice of answers to a certain location), fill-in (mainly some simple commands, such as Cisco’s IOS command), simulated operation (such as the emergence of a IIS in the MMC console interface, to give some of the requirements for your practice). There are some questions such as case study (ie, fisrt a long period account of case, and then according to the case to answer more than 10 multi-choice questions).

The examination database of 352-001 is provided and maintained by the commissioned examination company with assessment criteria and testing strategies. The examinees could start the exams before they have to answer unrelated questions like “what is your income?”, “what is the type of your work” and “who has paid your exam for the certificate?”, etc. This part of question has nothing to do with test, it just help the IT company to count the structure of examinees, so you just need to answer it according to the fact. However, there is also time limit for answering these questions and they are all choice questions, which is like a formal exam, and usually makes the friends taking Cisco certification exam for the first time feel confused.

Before the IT certification exam, we should understand that there isn’t any kind of single certification that work in all aspects of IT industry. Due to the requirements of IT industry its own characteristics, its division is very specific, such as an Internet, office software applications, software development, computer installation and maintenance, databases, graphics and image processing and many other different areas. Moreover, as the IT industry grows, new areas will also continue to appear, a new computer certification will also emerged, the old certificate will be constantly updated. If the applicant would like to involve in IT industry field, he should try to obtain certification in the field. Even now the very hot CCDE certification certificate, nor is a panacea. Therefore, when you participate in the examination training, you must be targeted and try to get the most authoritative and latest certification and get the golden key to enter IT industry.

Secondly, people can choose freely the certification exams suitable to themselves, but you’d better sign up after you have full understanding about the people fitting the certification, market-oriented fields, and the gold content, don’t just follow the trend blindly. The most important is to choise a certification according to your speciality and the future. For example, those who might be interested in the network hope work as a network administrator in the future, they can choose the authentication with the Microsoft MCP, MCSE, and Novell’s CNE, MCNE, as well as Sun’s SCJP, etc; If you are good at database, then you can take certification test like MCDBA of microsoft or others concerning database like Oracle, Sybase, and IBM. Besides, there are some certification tests concerning graphs and images, and people who are interested in graphic design, web-site making and so on can consider about it.

Relate Exam:

352-001 : ADVDESIGN

As the high technology develops unremittingly the market has a increasing demand for the talents of the IT industry year by year.Despite the economic ups and downs, the informationization trend will only be forward rather than backward.

When companies appoint talented persons, they usually pay more attention to their strength.The certificate of Cisco CCNP is the best verification of the professional ability but it is necessary to maintain your professional technique capability after obtaining the CCNP ratification.For individuals, CCNP certificate is the weapon to get high position with high-paying and the amute to keep his occupation.Furthermore, CCNP certification Certificate is acknowledged universally and the technical competence of someone with the certificate is highly affirmed by the IT community.As for enterprises, the people with IT certificate have a stronger problem-solving ability and are more productive according to the survey.Certifications will play a big role in the future job market.

Before you prepare the Cisco 642-825, you should have seceral notes:

• (1) Make clear the purpose of textual research, combined with your expertise and the work undertaken by now, make sure that you need the certification.
• 2) Have a correct understanding of the certification. CCNP certification and relevant work experience can improve your competitiveness.
• Choose the right training institutions which have adequate teaching staffs as well as a greater influence.
• 4, You should be prepared for the continuous learning.

Other Popular Exam

642-892 : Composite
642-812 : BCMSN – Building Converged Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks
642-821 : CCNP’s Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN)
642-845 : ONT – Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks