ITMS Administrator Group

About SCS Exams

The Symantec Certified credentials are industry recognized exams and are available to customers, partners, and employees. The technical certification program (i.e., Symantec Certified Specialist – SCS) targets people who have hands-on experience with the product. They might be called technical sales engineers, partner integrators, product engineers, administrators, architects, designers, technical support engineers, or consultants, for example.

Although each technology varies in complexity and depth, SCS exams measure technical knowledge and skills needed to efficiently deploy, configure, utilize, troubleshoot, and optimize Symantec solutions. SCS exams are based on a combination of training material, commonly referenced product documentation, and real-world scenarios. Learn more by visiting http://go.symantec.com/certification.

How do you access this exam?

This exam is delivered only through Pearson VUE test centers.  To register for the exam, login to CertTracker or create a new account.  Please see our step-by-step registration instructions for more information.

What are the recommended preparation strategies for this exam?

• Candidates are strongly encouraged to review the corresponding course materials prior to attempting the exam.

• Review the exam study guide (attached). The study guide aligns to the recommended training course by summarizing the key lessons and topics and how they correspond to the SCS exam. The study guide also contains sample exam questions to help you prepare.

Exam Details

# of Questions: 70 - 80
Exam Duration: 90 minutes
Passing score: 65%   

Questions?

For more information about the Symantec Certification Program, contact Global_Exams@Symantec.com.

Thank you for your support of the Symantec Certification Program!

Attachment(s)

250-413 ITMS 76 Live Exam Study Guide.pdf   887 KB 1 version

I was one of the Beta Test takers. I can say this is one of the best exams that I have taken from Symantec going back to 6.x days. Very task orientated and console based. No more of this memorize console paths 

Thank you very much for your feedback about the ITMS 7.6 SCS exam! Thanks also for taking the time to complete the beta exam!

Yeah the 3.5 hours and filling out 225 questions was long but worth it 

Glad to know it was worth your time! We couldn't deliver a final quality exam without beta testers like yourself. Thanks again!

I also was one of the beta test takers and I totally agree that almost four hours of exam was exhausting, but worth it. I really liked how the exam was splited, taking parts of SMP, CMS, SMS and AMS.

Just one point. In my opinion this exam is to really expienced Altiris administrators,so the passing score could be a little high. Maybe around 70%~75%.

Thank you all for the opportunity to be one of the beta testers!

Best Regards,

@Fernando, thank you also for attending the lengthy beta exam! I'll pass along your feedback to the development team. It’s wonderful and invaluable to get input from people like you and @sdmayhew, who clearly are loyal to Symantec by spending so much extra time to participate in the beta exam.

As for the passing score, we appreciate your feedback. Although it is intuitive to think that an appropriate passing score for an examination should be 70 or 75 percent correct based on personal experiences taking classroom tests, these arbitrary values may not reflect the performance level expected of the “minimally qualified candidate” given the difficulty of the test. For example, if the examination is very easy, a passing score of 70 may be too low. However, if the examination is very difficult, this same value may be too high.

Establishing passing scores requires the application of systematic procedures that consider the defined performance level definition of the “minimally qualified candidate” and the difficulty of the examination. Before the final passing scores are established, they are evaluated to ensure that the available validity evidence supports their use for the intended purpose of distinguishing the “minimally qualified candidates” from those who are not yet qualified. This systematic method is used to establish and maintain the fairness, validity and reliability of exams. Hopefully that makes sense and isn’t too much psychometric babble. :-)

Again, thank you for your time and have a great weekend!