Examination part. Cisco 642-901 adopts the internet-based test in the way of examination, the result would be known as soon as the examination finished, you could know at once whether or not pass the exam. 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 comapanies who have the determing say in whether the certification can be granted. Because it is a computer-based test and test results can be immediately known, all the subjects are objective questions, among which more than eighty percent are multiple choices, 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).
642-901 exam item pool is offerd and maintained by the companies which entrust the examination center to hold exams and provide the assement criteria and testing strategies themselves. The beginning of each exam you must answer such as “your income,” “the nature of your work,” “Who you have to pay exam certification” and other issues can begin a formal examination. This part of questions has nothing to do with the examination. It is only a means that the company gets some statistics and informations of the candidaties. So, just answer them frankly. However, this same question about a time limit, but also choose kinds of questions, looked very much like a formal examination, and often allow people to participate in Cisco certification exams for the first time a friend at a loss.
To remind everyone, before you decide to join the IT authentication, you must know that there is not an authentication certification which is the “tiger balm” of IT industry. As the IT industry, the requirements of its own characteristics, its very fine division of labor, such as an Internet, office software applications, software development, computer installation and maintenance, databases, graphics, image processing and many other different areas. And with the development of IT industry, new fields will continue to appear, and new kind of computer certification test will also emerge because of demand or opportunity and so on to update the old certificates. If the applicant would like to be involved in IT industry, he should manage to obtain certification in the field. Even the popular CCNP certification certificate is not a panacea. Therefore, first, to participate in training and examinations must be targeted towards the most authoritative and up-authentication certificate, to get a golden key to enter the IT industry.
Next, you could feel free to choose the certificate exam fit for yourself but have to know what kind of people and fields in the market the certificates are for and its importance before you enter for the exams and never follow suit blindly. One of the most important point is that according to their expertise and direction of development options Certification For example, one who might be interested in the network, hopes in the future he can work as a network administrator, could choose cetification like Microsoft’s MCP, MCSE, and Novell’s CNE, MCNE, as well as Sun’s SCJP, etc. If you are good at the data base, you can take in the exams of MCDBA of Microsoft company or the relevant certification exams of data base of Oracle、Sybase、IBM companies. Besides, now there are some certificate exams about figure & image processing so the people interested in graphic design and webpage making could have a think.