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July 13th, 2009 00:00
RE: CLARiiON IE Certification
Goodday all
I need some advise here please
I am doing the CLARiiON Solutions IE Certification. (EMC PARTNER South Africa)
I have already completed and Passed the Associate Level (E20-001) exam.
I need to obtain the Specialist Level Implementation Engineer (E20 - 340).
I have been studying my backend off by doing the practice exams (Online) as well as the as completing the following self paced study material Provided by EMC
I managed a pass mark on the assessments of between 80% and 100% consistently
Last week Friday (10-07-2009) I book for my Pearsonview Certification exam at the Center. Totally confident that i will pass the Exam.
I obtained 20% WTF????????
The content that i studied in the supplied material is all based on the CX4 range of products.
The exam material is NOT aligned at all with the content, All questions were around CX3 range and the older Connectrix models. All the content is outdated
I am currently very dissapointed. I feel I new what I had prepaired and studied for only to end up with a 20% pass ???????????????
The exam Vouchers cost money and this is going to have to come out of my pocket.
I now need to hunt for older material and then try the exam again.
Very disappointed with with EMC education.
Regards Sean Olivier
faisalchoudry
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July 13th, 2009 02:00
A friend of mine took the exam about a month ago and failed it because he said the questions were all based around the CX4 series ?
There aren't different versions of the exam in South Africa are there ?
I'm not sure if there is a way to even check the versions of exams at VUE ?
Revilo1
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July 13th, 2009 02:00
Not to my understanding.
I believe that there are around 120 or so questions which of the Exam chooses 65 questions which 5 dont count.
I litterly sat there and thought to myself where the hell do theses questions come from.
It may be a SA thing that it is just not updated here by us but then Education must follow up on this.
This threw me so off i have no idea what content to cover now????
Regards
Sean
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July 13th, 2009 04:00
Hello -
My name is Dawn Dinkoski and I'm one of the folks who handles Proven Help Desk questions. We would love the oppurtunity to look into this concern.
If you would please send an email to EDServices@emc.com (you can just cut and paste your initial question from here) and supply your full name and email address we will be able to pull your exam results as well as any comments you added during the exam and review.
If there is an issue with the testing center supplying an older version of the exam we will address that as well.
Look forward to hearing from you,
ddProven.
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July 13th, 2009 04:00
Hi Sean,
Have your EDServices email will look into ths and get back to you ASAP.
ddProven
Revilo1
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July 13th, 2009 04:00
Hi Dawn
Thank you i sent a email off this morning to EMEA_education@emc.com
I will send the same one on to you now.
Regards Sean
Revilo1
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July 13th, 2009 04:00
Thank you
Your assistance is greatly appreciated
Regards Sean
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July 14th, 2009 23:00
Education replied to me with regards to the content of the exam.
If you are doing this exam and have no hands on experiance then i suggest getting some over and above studying the Study Material provided.
I think my weakness is that i have no prior CLARiiON experiance.
Regards Sean
nheidler1
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July 16th, 2009 09:00
I found the exam to be very, very difficult, even with having taking the Implementation class and hands on experience. There was one question in particular that was really odd, so I went back to the course material to find the answer - it was not there. Looked through the Clariion documentation to answer the question - no luck. I finally got my answer by opening up a support case. Obviously I can't discuss the details of this, but items like this really made me wonder about the thinking behind the exam details. I found more than a few of the questions to be based around things that would just have to be memorized, like various product details. In my mind, the majority of the questions should be based around implementation. Study and keep at it, you will eventually pass. If you don't have access to a Clariion, just grab the simulator. Also watch all the videos from the install guides - they come on CD with a SAN, or you can get them off Powerlink.
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July 17th, 2009 08:00
Hi, I manage the development of our certification exams and appreciate your comments.
The Proven exams are intended to be challenging but fair. The CLARiiON IE exam is, in fact, developed in collaboration with EMC field implementation specialists. One group of field subject matter experts participates directly in designing the exam and developing the questions; a second set is involved in a review of the questions before they are published.
The questions on our exams derive from the training curriculum but not necessarily in a one-on-one fashion. That is, a question may be based on a concept covered in a training class but may apply the concept in a slightly different situation than described in the training. Also, many questions may draw on content covered in multiple sections of a single training class or may draw content from multiple classes that are part of a curriculum.
In all of this our goal is to have exam questions involve the kinds of situations and scenarios that implementation professional actually face.
Hope this is helpful.
Revilo1
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July 19th, 2009 23:00
Hi Gener
Thank you for your input.
I am writing again on Friday and have been putting in some serious study time.
The only content that I have is the IE Value pack that was loaded on my profile.
I have downloaded the CLARiiON Simulator and am going to play with that to get a little more familiar around the workings.
As frustrating it may be I have to get this. But I don't just want to pass without the knowledge of understanding the product. That would be pointless.
So I will just cover the content and try again on Friday.
Regards
Sean