Prometric to Microsoft, slow or what...

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  1. Kitkatninja
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    Just a little moan really... When I use to take my MS exams at PearsonVue, my MS transcript would always be updated 1 or 2 days after the pass. The 70-649 is the first exam I've taken with Prometric and after 4 days my MS record still doesn't reflect the pass (the Prometric site has been updated). In today's computerised world where e-mails can reach the otherside of the world in a couple of minutes, this is just so slow...

    I guess this is what happens when I'm on annual leave just relaxing :lol:

    -Ken
     
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    My MS Transcript was updated within three days (I think) on both exams I have recently passed.

    Still no Welcome Kit yet :(
     
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    Why aren't you studying! :)
     
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    Funny man :lol:

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    I took an exam 4 business days ago (last Thursday) and it has already appeared on my transcript...
     
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    If i took an Exam would Vue, can the transcript from Vue be migrated to MS's site? if so, how?
     
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    Only took two days for me when I passed the MCTS (Vista) exam. Took longer after the final exam for the MCSE though, four days I think. :blink
     
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    If you had taken a Vue exam in the past, it should have already shown up on your MS transcript. MS didn't care whether you took your exams at Prometric or Vue... they all ended up in Microsoft's transcript system under your (single) account.
     
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    LOL! Can someone slap me!
    I was thinking of one of my exams, and just realised it wasn't a Micro$oft one.

    Silly me
     
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    Rang up Prometric today, after confirming all my details with them all they could say is "ah yes it show's that you've passed the exam", my reply was "yes I know but it doesn't show on my MS transcript". Their answer "ring MS, here's the number".

    Rang MS, and after confirming all my details, all they could tell me was "we don't seem to have your exam record, it may have gotten lost during transmit". Which I already knew, after all, that's why I rang them... :dry

    Anyway, sent them my score report today. Hopefully this will all be cleared up soon, funny how I never had any problems with Vue :x

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    I had the same issue and after contacting MS and sending in my score sheet as an adobe pdf attachment and a week later my scores where showing as it should have been.

    Well the issues we have to get on with with Pometric huh, think they took on more than they can handle to be honest:(
     
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    I hate prometric :x

    When I booked my exam with them, I gave them my MCP ID. Afterwards I rang them to confirm that they had my correct MCP ID. Today I get an e-mail from MS to say that I have passed my exam UNDER A DIFFERENT MCP ID. It will take MS 5-7 days to merge these two records. So even if you give Prometric your MCP ID they ignore it :x

    I have never had this much hassle when I took exams at Vue. Did I mention that I hate Prometric...

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    I've never had any experience in taking cert exams, however on the surface it looks like Microsoft made an excellent choice putting all their eggs in one basket.
     
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    Cisco put all their eggs in one basket as well by going to only VUE centers. However, the general opinion seems to be that Cisco has the better "basket".
     
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    I agree with that :biggrin

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    Just checked my MS Transcript today and I like what I see, my exams have been ported over, the credentials have been updated. The only thing I can't do is sit another exam in the next five days because of the merger of both accounts. Like I was going to... :lol:

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