[asterisk-users] Digium training course

[Jared Smith]

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.