F5 Certified Practice Exams

Thanks for sharing your experience!

"successfully failed' heh heh

Thanks for the write up Peter.

One question...why isn’t the 301b going to be added to the practise exams? Actually two questions....do you have rough timescales for the deployment of these resources?

Cheers

Thomas - the short answer is that while we fully intend to deliver practice versions of our exams, we cannot tell you if, or even when, any will be released.

The longer answer: The value of our practice exams is that they are real, valid exams; i.e. we could have used them for production, but designated them as practice exams. This gives candidates a true assessment of their preparedness and expected performance on the production exam.

In order to do this, we need enough validated questions to build both a production exam as well as an independent practice version (no shared questions). In the case of 301b, we did not have sufficient beta participation to validate enough items to do this. We released the production version and are reviewing the performance of the pilot items on that exam to see if we can build a practice exam using these items (this happened this week). Although the psychometricians are still reviewing the data, the preliminary review suggested that we still do not have sufficient items to field a practice exam.

Frankly, we could put a practice exam out just for the sake of offering one; however, without being truly equivalent to the production version, it would make us look good, but be dishonest and not beneficial to candidates. I won't do that. Unless what we have has true value and is empirically capable of assessing production performance and producing valid guidance, I can't in good-conscious put it out there. That is not how we work.

BTW This is a good example of why candidate participation in exam development is so important. In addition to small-group participation in exam development, we also do a large-scale Job-Task Analysis Survey and Beta Exam for every exam version. Despite the fact the JTA survey allows candidates to provide real-world evaluations to determine what topics are included in the exam, we generally get very limited participation. The same goes for beta. We sent out over 4,000 invitations to the currently running 304Beta and as of today have less than 200 candidates who have taken or scheduled the exam. Based on this, I don't know if we will be able to field a practice exam for this upcoming exam either. I just don't know until all the data comes in.

Cheers,

Hi All,

Thanks in Advance for helping me out.

I am not able to log into the portal where we should book and take the Test Exams. Are the Credentials different for this "Zoomorphix Exam Studio system"? And there is NO link which takes us to Customer support from that portal. I have tried Reset Password multiple times as of now.

Practice exams are delivered via our Zoomorphix Exam Studio system (https://portal-v5.examstudio.com/Default.aspx?id=20882 ). You should have received an email with your login information; however, you must already have registered with our program and gotten an F5 Candidate ID.

If you cannot find this email, please go to the site and select the "Forgot your password?" link to reset your credentials using the email address you used to register with the F5 Certified! program.

Once you are able to login to Exam Studio (using your F5 Candidate ID as your username), simply click the "Shop Front" link in the navigation bar and you will see all of the currently available practice exams and options.

Hi Peter, I tried one attempt and 'alt-tab' did not work. Although I did not intend to do so but thought might be an good excuse to know your shortcomings and prepare better for the next time. Is there any other way to look for the answer. Any insight would be helpful!!

Raj

Raj,

As I've expressed before, the practice exams aren't really about the specific questions, but how you do overall. It validly predicts how you would do the the production exam, and gives you a sense of where you need to study if you are not prepared. Searching for answers an individual questions, especially during the practice exam, makes that prediction invalid - because you couldn't do that during the actual exam.

Just my thoughts.

I was able to log onto the exam site and take 1 of two tests I purchased, however when I attempt to go back to take the second exam, I get a failed account ( username/password) I click on the reset link and successfully reset my password, but when I try to log on it fails using the new password. This is an indication that the account is locked or disabled. I sent an e-mail to the support center and even called and talked to a support person both have been useless so far. I assume they have a 24 or 48 hour turn around which is quite disappointing.

W.Murphy,

I don't recall seeing any emails to the support@ address, our primary support email, but I don't answer all of them so I might have missed it. We have a 72-hour turn around on certification support issues as we do not have 24x7 coverage; however, we normally reply much quicker. F5 product support cannot help you with these systems.

Your account is not locked in any way. Most people experience the username/password issue because they are using their email address to login to ESO, rather than their F5 Candidate ID. Please make sure you are using your F5 Candidate ID as your username when you login and if you continue to have problems, please email us at Support@ and provide as much information as possible, including screen captures if possible.

Cheers,

Ken