[asterisk-users] Digium training course

[Steve Totaro]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Jared Smith <jsmith at digium.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:22 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
>> Are there braindumps out there, or TroyTec (http://www.troytec.com) 13
>> page cheat papers that will allow you to hold the highly coveted dCAP?
>
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
>> dCAP is useless if not based on real world experience.  That is how I
>> got my CCNA, real world experience.
>
> One of the key tenets of the dCAP program is that it has both a written
> and practical portion of the test.  For the sake of those that might not
> be familiar with the dCAP exam, let me explain:
>
> The dCAP exam has two portions... the first of which is a ninety-minute
> written exam.  The written exam contains approximately 115
> multiple-choice questions that range from channel driver configuration
> to dialplan applications to telephony concepts and everything in
> between.  While it is something that you could theoretically "cram" for,
> we wrote many of the questions with real-world applications in mind, and
> tried to address items that you'd learn through real-world experience
> and not just book learning.
>
> The second portion of the exam is a ninety-minute practical exam.  The
> idea of the practical exam is to treat you as if we'd hired you as an
> Asterisk consultant, and see if you can compile Asterisk from source and
> build the required PBX features and settings within the allotted time.
> Again, this is a test of your real-world Asterisk skills, and having
> proctored the exam for the past several years, I can state unequivocally
> that no amount of studying cheat sheets is going to prepare you for the
> practical exam like hands-on experience with Asterisk can.
>
> If there are any other questions I can answer about the dCAP exam
> (without giving away all the answers to the test, obviously), let me
> know and I'd be happy to address them.
>
>
> --
> Jared Smith
> Training Manager
> Digium, Inc.
>

Is google permitted, what OS, internet, can I install Lynx? ;-)

Joking,
Steve T