I passed.
Wow, what an
experience. I arrived at Dynamic world wide consulting in Chandler, AZ. about a 30 minuets early, checked in and hung around for a bit before starting the exam. This place was bad-ass, really top notch. Staff was beyond helpful, the facility was really cool and ultra-modern. It's a training facility and testing center for Microsoft, Juniper, VMware, EC-council, and CompTIA. Apparently they just started a couple months ago as a testing center for Pearson VUE.
They were just starting to setup lunch for the boot camps they had going on at the facility, so before I even checked in I was encouraged to go around the corner and get some snacks for my Wife and kids out in the car. I was expecting some kind of room like you'd see in a hotel lobby but theirs' was a full fledged cafe' with 10 - 12 counter-top tables with granite counter tops and a full fledged open bar with anything from fresh fruit, chips, sandwiches, soda fountains, fresh deli cookies, the works! Bad-ass.. So I hooked the kids up and told the wife to meet me in 90...
The front desk check-in was a piece of cake. I brought my Driver license and my social security card, signed the electronic signature, took my picture, issued a laminate sheet and was escorted right in, Supper efficient. About that time my blood pressure was making me light headed and I was really nervous. I wrote down my subnetting chart, clicked through the introduction to testing engine, took a deep breath, clicked "Start Exam".. Boom - Pearson VUE testing engine crashed. I walk back out to the network administrator who is filling in for the receptionist while shes' eating lunch with everyone else, he quickly resumes the test for me and I'm back in the room in 30 seconds. The test engine put me back to the last 7/7 intro test engine I click the "Start exam" again, system crashes to a blank XP Desktop. Shit.. I'm sweating bullets about now, I'm not sure what's going on.. Did I do that? I grab the admin at the front desk, it's been maybe 20 seconds, I leave the room to get a drink of water and hang around the receptionist desk for him to come back out. Three to Four minuets go by before he comes back out and says he needs to call Pearson VUE. He's in and out of the testing room for a good 15 minuets while on the phone with Pearson before giving control of the Desktop to a tech at Pearson VUE. All the while I'm shooting the breeze with the a System admin for a DOD contractor getting his VCP (he passed by the way, but tougher then he thought). After about 40 minuets the administrator comes to me with an incident report and phone # I can contact with Pearson VUE to reschedule for a latter date at no charge. Apparently the Pearsons support tech's can't get the exam engine to come back online.
I'm like shit, are you kidding me? My wife and I don't have cell phones so I decide to take a 30 minute walk around outside. It's nice 73ish, I'm thinking about how crappy my luck is, and I start to thinking; Why can't I just call them and see if I can reschedule the exam right now? So I head back upto the testing facility and call Pearsons, give them the incident number and tell them I live over an hour away, I'm at the testing facility right now and want to take the exam right now. After being on hold for 2-3 minuets the gentleman tells me they can't reschedule my exam until they receive the results from my old exam... Hu? He asks if the System Admin is their so I hand the phone back the the guy at Dynamic world wide consulting and he's on the phone with 3, maybe 4 different tech's trying to get everything sorted out. Apparently the original tech gave out the wrong incident report number and if I wouldn't have called from the testing facility I would have been shit up a creek.
Fast forward, it's 1:55, I've been their for 2 and a half hours trying to get this figured out. Sitting in one of the coolest break rooms I've ever seen watching some Linux+ bootcamp guys play COD4 on a 60in plasma tv overlooking downtown Tempe.. They eventually get everything sorted out, refund my original test and book me for 2pm. Go through the works, digital signature, new digital picture, back in to the exam room. Boom - Crashes. Seriously. It's just funny at this point, I open the door and just smile at the admin, he comes in restarts the exam, I finish it with 43 minuets left on the clock, grab my pass sheet and spit. Grab dinner with the family, hit rush hour traffic, rolled semi on the freeway, took 2 hours to get home.
I've go a fucking headache, and I'm not proofing this..
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