Each day after the examination, the results of the examination will be uploaded by the examination center to the central server of the examination companies. And after all the results are treated, the examination companies pass them to the IT companies who have the deterring say in whether the certification can be granted. As the exams are all computer-based and the exam result could be known right after the exams, the tests are all objective items including 80 per cent choice questions. Other question types include dragging questions (that is, drag the chosen answer to a certain place), blank filling questions (some simple commands, such as IOS command of Cisco), simulation operation questions (for example, the emergence of MMC control interface in IIS, and ask you to make actual operation according to the given requirements), some other questions such as CASE STUDY (that is, give you a long description of CASE, then answer more than 10 choice questions according to the CASE).
Assessment criteria and testing strategies are also provided by the commissioned company. Every time before you get into the testing, you should answer some questions like "what about your income", "what’s the nature of your job", "who pays for the examination", etc. This part of the problem has nothing to do with the examination, only those IT companies to look at the candidates statistical personnel structure, so you only need a solid answer on the list.
Of what everyone should be reminded is that one has to understand that there is no such kind of certification test in IT circle as "one size fitting all “before deciding to take IT certification test. Because of its own characteristic, IT industry has a very fine division, such as there are areas in charge of internet, office software applications, software development, computer installation and maintenance, databases, graphics, image processing and many other different areas. And as the IT industry develops, the new realm would continually arise, as a result, the new computer authentication certification would rise in response to the proper time and conditions, and the old certification would ceaselessly update. If the applicant would like to involve in IT industry field, he should try to obtain certification in the field.
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. One of the most important points is that according to your own expertise and development options to select certification. 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 databases, you can take the exams of certification related to databases, such as Microsoft MCDBA or Oracle, Sybase, IBM. Besides, there are also some authentications concerning the figure and image, people, who are interested in graphic design, webpage making and so on, could consider them.
