ICND1 exam froze on simulation question!

fuz1on

Meet the guy who had their Cisco certification exam freeze and had answers erased/reset. Vegas anyone?

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networker050184

Happened to me before as well. Halfway through BCMSN.

fuz1on

Damn! That sucks! I'm so sorry you had to go through that...

Edit: Meet you in Vegas?

The worst part is I failed by the equivalent of the points for one more correct answer which was probably all the work I lost during the Windows glitch/freeze. Well, I guess it's better than failing by .001 of an answer like I did in September.

balcobulls

Sounds like you should be buzzed right about now

techfiend

How does this happen with such cutting edge hardware?!

OfWolfAndMan

techfiend wrote: »

How does this happen with such cutting edge hardware?!

LOL. Not sure if that's sarcasm, but there is nothing cutting edge about a generic dell desktop. I find some of the certs I get mailed to me sharp enough to cut me from the edges though.

ICND1 didn't freeze on me, but I had an issue with the test engine that set me back a month and a half for ICND2 before those clowns got me a voucher.

techfiend

Blasphemy! You have to struggle with Dell computers? The eMachines and Gateways I've tested on are so fast I wonder why they aren't serving enterprises! No, really I don't think it's all a hardware issue, how much power should it take to a load a simple simulator? Cisco sims are notorious for being really slow, I suspect the code has a lot to do with it.

Watch out for those certs. They've been deemed deadly weapons in 7 states and in legislation in many more.

volfkhat

techfiend wrote: »

How does this happen with such cutting edge hardware?!

The Fact that i can't tell if this is Serious, or Sarcasm... proves how Brilliant of a post it is :]

fuz1on

Windoze 7 Pro box - I shoulda just did a Ctl-Alt-Del when it froze!

Notice I have no MS certs...

theodoxa

fuz1on wrote: »

Windoze 7 Pro box

That's pretty new for a test center. I took a couple of Microsoft exams in 2012 and the Prometric test centers (2 different test centers) were running Windows 2000 and the towers looked like they were just as old as the OS. I don't remember for sure what my Cisco exams were using (2013-2015), though I'm thinking Windows XP. I do remember the screens being so small that when I did TSHOOT, I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out why the correct technology wasn't a choice, only to realize that there was one more choice just past the bottom of the screen and I had to scroll down to see it.

techfiend

Hidden answers has happened to me on some tests too, I think some of the cisco's. They use a very low resolution but apparently not low enough for one tester. While I was taking what I think was my first ICND2 a fellow tester couldn't read the screen. A test center support guy was trying to fix it while on the phone with pearson vue. It was a pretty big distraction and I kept thinking of ways to fix it. Turns out the test program controls it all and doesn't react to resolution or dpi changes, nor can it be magnified per pearson rules. Tester was sent home and hopefully refunded. If this was indeed the first ICND2, I ended up failing but at no cost to me, WGU. Otherwise I would have asked pearson vue for a refund.

fuz1on

Scrolling to see the additional choice is what froze the exam simulation! I have requested a retake voucher and expect to get one in the next week or so.

fuz1on

So I got denied a retake voucher after 3 weeks of phone-tag/incompetence...

Anyways, I passed CCENT/ICND1 this afternoon...FINALLY!

koz24

Congrats man!

networker050184

Congrats!

fuz1on

Thanks koz24 and networker050184!