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There are hundreds of websites out there that claim to provide legitimate practice exams. How are you to know what's ok to use and what isn't? That's where CertGuard comes in. Let us do the research for you. We've already done most of the work for you and we're still working on more. If you want to make sure that your certifications are safe, then you need someone you can trust to provide you with the information that will keep them safe. Don't just assume you'll find a good cheap practice test, 9 out of 10 times you'll be wrong. Don't risk your certifications!!
The cheating industry that is devaluing IT certification - part one
Robert Williams, the founder of CertGuard.com has been leading the fight against this cheating industry. CertGuard was conceived with the notion that individuals in the IT industry should have a working knowledge of the systems and/or software they are certifying on, prior to obtaining certification, according to its founder, Robert Williams.more...
The cheating industry that is devaluing IT certification - part two
Braindumps are certainly not the worst thing that people can take advantage of when it comes to getting certified, but it is at the top of the list; we’ll get into "hired gunmen" in the last installment of this series.more...
The cheating industry that is devaluing IT certification - part three
Robert Williams talks about the four types of cheaters out there; how they’re all helping, in their own special way, to devalue I.T. certifications; and what is being done to combat their ineptness.more...
The cheating industry that is devaluing IT certification - part four
Gunmen take tests for certification candidates and have taken exams so often they can recite tests verbatim to you. They know the exams inside and out, upside-down, and backwards. more...
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CertGuard now has three featured technologies that we want to share with you.
The first is our Basic CertSearch which will tell IT Professionals and Exam Candidates what is and what is not a braindump, it also notes other types of sites, Books, Gunmen, Link Dumps, etc.
Our second feature is brand new. We just added this to the site on 8/16/2007. Our Advanced CertSearch is now filtering out 99% of the braindumps on the internet and is a complete, comprehensive, search of the internet which will produce results from over 200+ legitimate Practice Test Providers and Legitimate Forums and is filtering out over 900 bad sites...including braindumps, gunmen, and fake link dumps. That feature can be found at the top of every page on CertGuard. More information on how it works and what it does can be found here: http://www.CertGuard.com/CertSearch.asp
Our third feature not only helps IT Professional and Exam Candidates, it can help every IT Certification website that uses Google AdSense as a revenue maker. Our new Google AdSense Competitive Ad Filter list will keep 99% of the braindumps and gunmen out of Google Ads for any website that uses keywords such as MCSE, CCNA, MCITP, MCTS, 70-291, 70-431 and many many more. If you run an IT Certification website, blog, or forum and you want to show your readers that you're serious about keeping them certified, then you need to have this list. More information can be found here: http://www.CertGuard.com/AdSense.asp.
Give our Search Engine a Test Drive now: MCSE MCITP CCNA MCTS 70-291 70-431
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What, you ask? Well, Microsoft's Learning Team, combined with their Exam Security & Integrity Team, their Legal Team and CertGuard has been working diligently to boost the value of IT Certifications across the board.
For a couple years now, Microsoft has been trying to ensure that 'gunmen' aren't taking proxy exams, they're shuting down websites that operate under an illegal pretenses, and they have helped to shutdown many insecure testing centers around the world. And they've done all that with very little help from any other Certification Vendors, and all of it was from their own budgets.
