How far is your testing center?

MAC_Addy

I was just curious on how many people have one local of if you have to pack your lunch box for the day?

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wirerat

3 within a 5 mile radius of home.

veritas_libertas

Across the street from my place of employment.

MAC_Addy

If I want to test Microsoft, mine is only a few miles away from my house. If I want to test Cisco, I have to drive 70 miles.

Repo Man

5 miles and is Prometric/Vue.

SteveO86

Takes me a good hour to get to my nearest testing.. I hate putting the mileage on my car but I guess it's for the greater good.. I gotta make the drive soon to.

Devilsbane

The place I normally go is about a 25 minute drive.

For one test I drove nearly 300 miles and spent the night in a hotel because I wanted to take my test on a Saturday. That was a very interesting 24 hour period.

xenodamus

40 miles from my home, but 2 miles from work. That's for Microsoft.

If I want to take a Cisco exam is 75 miles from home, 40 miles from work.

jtoast

For Microsoft its 45 minutes. For everything else its about 30.

NinjaBoy

Currently:

Certiport (our organisation is one): 0 miles
ETA testing centre (our organisation is one): 0 miles
Prometric & Vue: about 15 miles away

However we're in the process of becoming a Prometric testing centre, no plans for Vue.

-Ken

badboyeee

5 locations within a 15 min drive from my home.

Reibe

Prometric - a few miles from work

Vue - 80 miles

MentholMoose

There are a bunch within 5 miles of my employer. However, I prefer to take exams on Saturday, so the testing center I tend to use is 15 miles away from home (mostly freeway, so about 20 minutes each way on Saturday).

jamesleecoleman

20 miles. I might start going to a second one because its closer. The main one is that I go to is the school I will transfer to. I usually get a discount because I'm a student there.

Psoasman

Less than 10 miles at my school

gosh1976

It takes me about 35 to 40 minutes to get to the Prometric/Vue testing center. There are a few that are closer but I like this one as they are open and accept walk-ins on both Saturday and Sunday. Plus the testing center is very nice.

Aldur

Since choosing to live out in the middle of no where it... it's about a two hour drive. The other day when I had an exam it took me 2 hrs and 45 mins due to bad road conditions...

za3bour

Used to be +100 but now it's less than 10

Forsaken_GA

wow, I feel sorry for those who have to drive more than 100 miles. One nice thing about being in metro atlanta and it's burbs, finding a testing center is not difficult

alan2308

About 30 miles to the one I will go to, 11 to the one that cancels your appointment 2 days before and doesn't give you any warning.

Reseven

8.9 miles to my Prometric testing center.

The same guy is always there, he's pretty easy going. Told me if I want to just come in and take a test, its no problem. No need to schedule. Just bring a credit card.

The testing room is nice too. Not very big but its nice and clean. Nice view out of the huge windows.

jmritenour

There is one that does Prometric and I think Vue within about 40 minutes. However, I usually go to one about 75 minutes away that's open 7 days a week.

Essendon

24 kms. from my home and about 4 from work. I'd like to be able to test on a Saturday but cant find a testing place that does Saturdays.

ltgenspecific

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Across the street from my place of employment.

Same here, nice isn't it?

RomBUS

One 15 minute train ride....I love NY bc of this

Slowhand

I think I've got veritas_libertas and ltgenspecific beat, my closest Prometric testing center is two blocks my house, right on the main street where there are coffee shops and little diners to sit and eat/drink/study. The Vue center is a little further away, it takes riding on a BART (subway) train for about five minutes and stepping four steps out of the station in downtown Oakland to get there, maybe twenty if you count stepping into the Tully's Coffee before taking an exam.

undomiel

Used to be on par with Slowhand but fortunately that place got closed down. Great testing centre but from what I read on the news a really shady place to work for or have work for you. New testing site is great though, only a few miles away and it is quite clean, quiet, and the staff is friendly too.

citinerd

I have 2 within 15-20 miles and a third about 40 miles away. So I can pretty much take my exam the next day if I want.

Intresting thing about the one 40 miles away... It is a Doctors Office.

Chris:/*

Pearson Vue - 15 minutes
Prometric - 45 minutes (Japanese site though)
Kryterion - 8 hours

Povilas

I have one Prometric/Vue center at 6 miles from home. But it has some limitations: works only one day in a week, only for 7 hours and has only one seat. So only 4-10 exams can be taken monthly. You must be quick and book ahead, or will be forced to go 60 miles to next nearest testing center.

MechaniX

Both are within walking distance. The closest is just across the street from my place.