Dell Certification, anyone have it?

For my new job I need to get Dell Certified, DCSE I think. I am not too worried about it as I have heard it is easier than A+ and I found A+ to be overall easy. I believe I have to take the test a week from now. I am getting trained next week and then I think on Friday I am taking the test. I was just wondering what to expect, thanks.
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He told me that it is pretty much as easy as teh A+ but requires you to recertify often... The tests also get specific about dell products from what I understand.
If you want to certify in Servers, you will need to take the Associate Server V5.0 Part 1 and Part 2.
If you want to certify in Portables, you will need to take the Associate V5.0 Latitude and the Associate V5.0 Inspiron.
Those are the actual cert exams, the others are prerequsites for the above.
Q. Is it $179 per exam? I've already paid for one exam and when I request the second part, I'm still getting the billing screen.
A. The $179 fee covers all Associate exams for all product lines. The system is set up to require billing information for every request as a tracking method. You are not charged after the inital fee.
2020 Goals: 0 of 2 courses complete, 0 of 2 exams complete
Coz all I got is just a sheet print off from the DCSE web site.
Are they officially send you a real certification ?
Everyone pretty much can make there own DCSE cert.
So that's why I wonder is there a real cert given by Dell instead printing it out by yourself.
I run all Dell servers with 4 hr replacements. A Unisys guy has came out when my backplane failed, he installed a HD & Array controller. He was DCSE. I have considered it in the past with the amount of Dells I have. A direct line to Dells parts/service dept should come with. I hate playing the phone game when calling them.
so is this really open book? i mean i can download the zip file and look at the answers while taking the test. is that legit for this exam?
Then i tryed to take the "customer representative V2" or something like that i think its called and the most i was getting was 75% and now the cert is marked with red and i cant take it as i have exceeded the attempts i can take it. what can i do now? is there any other way to do something so i can un-mark this cert and take it again?
This is all the certs i have at the moment:
Certification Status
ID Certification Date
640 Client DSP - Customer Experience V.2 Certification 6/22/2006
619 Portables - Latitude D820 / Precision M65 Product Certification 5/22/2006
620 Portables - Latitude D620 - Product Certification 5/22/2006
552 Associate Server Self-Assessment V7.0 1/25/2006
551 Associate Server Certification V7.0 1/25/2006
424 Servers - PowerEdge 600SC Product Certification 1/16/2006
215 Servers - PowerEdge 500SC Product Certification 1/16/2006
280 Servers - PowerEdge 1500SC Product Certification 1/16/2006
602 Portables - Inspiron 630m XPS M140 1/11/2006
603 Portables - Inspiron 1300, B120 B130, Latitude 120L 10/27/2005
600 Customer Experience Certification 10/10/2005
542 DSP - Mini-Tower V.2 Chassis Certification 10/10/2005
548 Foundation 2005 Inspiron 9/25/2005
547 Foundation 2005 Latitude 9/24/2005
568 DSP - Desktops V.2 Chassis Certification 9/23/2005
543 Foundation 2005 Desktops 9/22/2005
447 Point of Sale Product Certification 9/22/2005
544 Portables - Latitude D810 / Precision M70 Product Certification 9/20/2005
564 DSP Portables - Inspiron 1200 / Inspiron 2200 / Latitude 110L Product Certification 9/20/2005
545 Portables - Latitude D410 Product Certification 9/20/2005
546 Portables - Latitude X1 Product Certification 9/19/2005
571 DSP - Small Form Factor V. 2 Chassis Certification 9/19/2005
436 Dell Soft Skills - Certification 9/19/2005
523 Dell ESD - Certification 9/19/2005
The nice thing about my company they let me take it as many as i want and if i used all of my try's my company will have them reset it.They did send me 3 certs from dell through the mail when i was done too. As for the customer v.2 test good luck on that one because i beleive a drunken monkey wrote that one lol.E-mail your company and let them know you need the test reseted.Pm me if anybody has any questions about this.
To have an exam reset, you'll need to send an email, from your company email address. The subject line must read, "Exam reset please". The body of the email should only contain your name, your DCSE #, and the exact name of the exam to be rest. It takes upto 48 hours, they will reply once it has been done. For the record, that Customer Experience exam completely sucks. I haven't passed yet either. The questions are somewhat absurd.
Once you log in, on the left sidebar, close to the bottom, is the link for IFR_Self_Study materials, for all the current certs they have....I can't make a direct link, because you would have to log in to see that sidebar.
Im am registered as DCSE under the Change My Information, would I need to be under Warranty Parts Direct maybe?
Im am registered as DCSE under the Change My Information, would I need to be under Warranty Parts Direct maybe?
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Thanks for checking on that. I may try to email their support, but I have found in the past that responses are few and far between.
All the time i failed but the other one exams i passed.
I wan't to know if anyone have the questions answered for that exam.
I had read the irf documentation.
It is very important to me.
Thank you