Pearson VUE is the electronic testing business of Pearson Education. This is the organization through which MRA, Inc. administers computer based tests. For more information, go to www.pearsonVUE.com. top

A self-paced PowerPoint presentation is available on the Pearson VUE Support Services Web site. Once training is completed, Pearson VUE requires that the administrator take and pass a no-cost, informal, open-book exam on a Pearson VUE Test Delivery workstation at your test center. When candidates call our call center or access our Web site to register for an exam, your center automatically appears as a choice.

There are no set-up costs to become a Pearson VUE Authorized Center. The software is free and you pay nothing other than candidate testing fees. You provide the PC’s, testing environment and staff; we provide the testing system software.

Candidates can register for a test by calling a Pearson VUE call center, via the Web or directly at one of Pearson VUE’s test delivery locations.

Pearson VUE has operations centers in England, Australia, India, China and Japan. Pearson VUE also has access to Pearson NCS and Pearson plc personnel and facilities in many other countries. Pearson VUE’s operations centers mainly provide testing center support and candidate registration services. In Australia and the United Kingdom, Pearson VUE has business development and program management personnel to support your international testing program requirements.

We do not plan to make any changes to your existing contract or compensation. All existing contracts between Pearson VUE and the Pearson VUE Authorized Test Centers will be fully honored.

No. Pearson VUE does not plan to make any changes to your existing contract, and there is no exclusivity clause in the existing Pearson VUE contract. We believe that you will continue to work with the partners that deliver the highest level of service and offer the best technology. Pearson VUE will continually strive to be your preferred vendor of choice.

No, we will continue to offer the opportunity to become a Pearson VUE Authorized Test Center globally to all centers that meet Pearson VUE requirements.

It’s easy to join the Pearson VUE Authorized Test Center network if you meet our basic requirements. You’ll find an application, technical specifications and instructions on our website at www.pearsonvue.com/pvtc/join.

There are several ways training centers benefit. First, certification is a tremendous way to measure the success of your training. Second, testing is seen as a complete, value-added service; candidates like testing where they were comfortable training. And third, testing candidates are always potential training candidates. Once a candidate has tested in your center, he or she can be marketed to as a training candidate.

Yes! With Pearson VUE’s local registration application, Pearson VUE is able to offer training centers the convenience and financial benefits of bundling testing with training. To order exam discount vouchers contact the Pearson VUE Voucher Store in your region at www.PearsonVUE.com/vouchers.

Pearson VUE does not require a particular format, but all test files to be published on the Pearson VUE test delivery system must be submitted to Pearson VUE with all the information necessary to allow us to publish your test properly. This information ensures that the test driver displays and processes every item in the test correctly. For example, a test file must contain information on: We prefer to receive test files in TDL and no longer accept VDB.

Our goal is to “publish every test on time.” To meet that goal, we ask that all clients forecast their exam publication requirements at least 30 days in advance of the “go live date” and that they submit their test files to us at least 10 days prior to the date the exam is to go live.

Pearson VUE’s test delivery system is the most accurate and reliable center-based test delivery system available today. 32-bit technology means that our testing partners enjoy enhanced performance, greater reliability, and a system that's flexible enough to handle a wide variety of item and exam types.

The Pearson VUE test system can automatically enforce a wide range of client prescribed registration, such as: Yes. Our system handles same-day testing very easily. All Pearson VUE test centers are equipped to register a walk-in candidate and immediately deliver the exam. Because it only takes from two to five minutes to obtain testing authorization from the system, candidates requesting a commonly delivered exam could be testing in five minutes or less if there are seats available.

Pearson VUE takes exam security issues very seriously and uses the best available physical and data security techniques to protect the intellectual property of our testing clients and to ensure that each candidate takes the exam in a controlled environment, including: x 24 worldwide phone and online support for technical and operational issues for the candidates and test sites

The Pearson VUE test driver delivers examinations in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and American), French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Castilian and Modern), Swedish and Welsh.

Pearson VUE has a very sophisticated financial and banking system, allowing candidates to register and pay for exams in dozens of currencies around the world. Most clients want their candidates to be able to pay for their exams in the candidate’s local currency but wish to receive that money from Pearson VUE in US dollars. The Pearson VUE system supports that requirement very well.

To enhance the testing process, improve security, and reduce administrative work, many credentialing organizations are moving their paper-and-pencil examination programs to computer-based test delivery. Pearson VUE has worked with many testing programs to implement computer based testing.