Chapter 1. Overview of Cisco Certification

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Radio button

• Check box

• Drag and drop

• Multiproduct simulation

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Assessing your exam-readiness

• Preparing to take a certification exam

• Practicing (to make perfect)

• Making the best use of the testing software

• Budgeting your time

• Guessing (as a last resort)

As mentioned in the Introduction, you will not be allowed to take anything into the testing room with you that might facilitate cheating or provide others with any information concerning the test. You will be provided with a means of making notessome facilities still give you a couple of sheets of paper and a pen, while others offer a plastic-covered sheet and an erasable markerbut you must surrender that when you leave the exam room. You basically can take yourself into the exam and bring yourself out; everything else is tightly controlled.