Re: [Blind-sysadmins] certification questions

Hi, Actually I found the MS exams easier to take than the Cisco exams as the biggest issue on the Cisco exams for me were the simulations and tasks where you had to enter in commands. The MS exams are slightly easier in this regard as most of it is reading text and multiple choice answers, with the occasional diagram. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Murphy Sent: 15 May 2015 22:31 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] certification questions People, I am more then willing to join the team. I have done some work internally with Cisco on this and have made good movement forward with the CCNA certs. At this stage, I cannot share much of this due to NDA. The biggest issue vendors like Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, etc has is to prevent cheating. Thus some components of the exam might be designed to prevent this from happening in turn making that part of the exam inaccessible. Thus you might still require a reader for those part if they can make the other parts of the exam accessible. In Microsoft or Apple exams, I assume there is a lot of screen shots. Thus they would have to make that information accessible some how. so how would you make a screen shot of the task manager accessible for example to ensure the same level of information and challenge is provided to all parties for that question? Sean

On 16 May 2015, at 7:01 am, Kelly Prescott wrote:

I am up for it as I am trying to work on this just now! I wouldn't mind coordinating etc. kp

On Fri, 15 May 2015, John G Heim wrote:

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If you folks would like to try to do something about this, I suggest we form a team to look into it. If someone steps up to lead the team, we can arrange a meeting via skype with IAVIT's lawyer to see if we have any recourse.

On 05/15/2015 01:09 AM, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

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Hi,

As others have said, the only way you will get through it is with a reader who can confidently read technical questions in a timely manner. I did the MCITP Enterprise and server 2008 R2 certs (6 exams), and only got anywhere with a training company in the UK called Firebrand. All other attempts to get certs have gone wrong. I tried to do the upgrade exam to 2012 R2 last year and had a similar failure due to not getting a competent reader.

Thanks. Andrew.

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott Sent: 14 May 2015 23:21 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] certification questions

Hello to all on this list. My name is Kelly Prescott and I am currently enrolled for a degree in Information Technology-Network Administration. I am not new to this area, but up to now, my experience is with Unix/Linux systems which I have little to no problem with in terms of accessability. I managed the Network Operations Center for a ISP for about 10 years, so I am relatively experienced. My weak points are stuff involving Windows as that was not my area. This program is All Windows All the time! I am trying to do the Microsoft certifications and my forst cert attempt was a total non-success. Certiport who provided the test said it was accessible with JAWS, and it was not. So my first question is Is there anyone on here who has gone through the certification process with Microsoft, and if so, how did you manage accessability? My testing center knows less than I do about the process, and when I called certiport customer service, They told me to send a email.

I did that, but I am looking for input/ideas from others so I don't have to "blaze" a new trail from scratch.

-- Kelly PRescott

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