CVOICE and IIUC.

AlexMR

I passed IIUC last friday and have been considering going after CVOICE because the exam blueprint looks like they are very similar.

Can somebody compare both exams? I see the CVOICE covering more material and going definitely at more depth, but the similarities are huge. What I think at this point is that passing the CVOICE shouldnt take too much work now that the IIUC material is fresh.

Is this an incorrect assumption somehow?

azaghul

Hi Alex,

I took the same track, completed IIUC in June, and have followed on with CVOICE (in progress).

There is a reasonable amount of cross-over in basic concepts, FXS, FXO, E&M, T1/E1 config. Buts thats where it seems to end. In some ways you can think of IIUC as being CVOICE-Lite, or CVOICE-Very Lite.

And yes, there is a lot more depth and extra material in CVOICE. I've been at it for 4 months now but should have it completed by years end.

But while its still fresh is the time to follow through with it.

Cheers,
Dave

pitviper

Lots of additional (challenging) material in CVOICE. I would say that there is less than 20% overlap. IIUC is definitely a good warm up, but it won’t really prepare you for things like VoIP bandwidth calculation, SIP, in depth end to end signaling, VoIP Gateways, Gatekeepers, and so on. I thought the CVOICE test was pretty tough.