![]() ![]() In response, IT certification bodies have staged coordinated attacks on brain-dump sites where the pirates attempt to sell the looted data, including the use of cease and desist orders and raids, says Kainrath. "If people spent the same energy and creativity to study as they do to cheat they would be far better off." In some cases the sites deliver fraudulent or obsolete content to unsuspecting buyers, says Dave Meissner, chief operating officer at Kryterion Inc., a provider of online IT certification testing services. When test takers try to cheat using brain-dump sites, however, they sometimes end up getting cheated themselves. It's really problematic," Caveon's Addicott says - and it's leading some certification and testing organizations to move to a SaaS-based test delivery model. "Because the whole test and answer key is downloaded to servers at each location the entire item bank and answer key are available to be hacked. It can also involve outright theft of test data from corrupt or lax test centers. (This type of "item harvesting" might require sending as few as 10 people into a test center to memorize all of the questions on a given test.) These include sending people into test centers to remember or photograph sets of questions. Pirates use a variety of techniques to steal entire tests and answer keys. "But once we required digital photos and digital signatures it disappeared."īut while the "gold standard" of testing security applies to the 500 testing centers that Pearson VUE owns, that can vary at the other 4,600 sites owned by Pearson's partners, including IT training organizations and colleges and universities that test students at the end of a training program. "Proxy testing used to be a big thing," says Pearson's Poyiadgi. Test centers might also record the test subjects on digital video, and put the test taker's photo right on the certification report. ![]()
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