[asterisk-users] dCAP Exam

[Benny Amorsen]

Jared Smith <jsmith at digium.com> writes:

> In a nutshell, you can pass the test without having any experience on
> Polycom IP phones and Digium cards, as long as you know how to use
> Asterisk itself.

You certainly can, but I think it's worth it to invest ~30 minutes
beforehand so you know where you put IP addresses and accounts in
Polycom phones, and so you can get basic DAHDI working. It isn't hard,
it takes about 30 minutes to learn, and it doesn't even really require
that you have the hardware in front of you.

I don't think it's unreasonable at all that it is in the test -- if you
can't connect SOME kind of phone to Asterisk, you don't deserve
certification. They have to pick one brand because it's infeasible to
bring 5 different phones for each test taker.

So, to all you people who complain that the dCAP is too hardware
specific: It isn't. Really, the only tricky thing to know is that you
probably want the Address and the Auth User ID fields on a Polycom phone
to contain the same value (often the phone extension, if you don't want
to be fancy). The Address field should NOT contain an IP address.


/Benny