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Computer Delivered Testing: Network and Bandwidth Requirements

The document discusses the network and bandwidth requirements for Pearson's Computer Delivered Testing application. It provides guidance on verifying internal network access, DNS servers, proxies, firewalls and gateways. It also includes tables outlining the required bandwidth for different numbers of test stations depending on whether tests are pre-loaded or not.

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Computer Delivered Testing: Network and Bandwidth Requirements

The document discusses the network and bandwidth requirements for Pearson's Computer Delivered Testing application. It provides guidance on verifying internal network access, DNS servers, proxies, firewalls and gateways. It also includes tables outlining the required bandwidth for different numbers of test stations depending on whether tests are pre-loaded or not.

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Computer Delivered Testing

Network and Bandwidth Requirements

Pearson’s Computer Delivered Testing (CDT) application can be installed on a computer and used to
administer Versant tests by computer. CDT runs as an application on the local machine that accesses
the Pearson system external to your organization’s IT environment to download and upload tests as
required. The CdtClient.exe application (this is the name of the application used for Versant computer
tests) needs to be able access https://www.VersantTest.com... on port 443 to download and upload
tests.

1. Verifying Internal Network Access


The IT environments in many organizations have strict network access and security controls. For CDT,
your IT team must ensure that there is sufficient access provided from the computer running CDT
through your internal network to the Pearson systems externally. Examples of things that might limit
or prevent such access include (but are not limited to) firewalls, unique network routing, VPNs, and
security access keys. Please verify that the CdtClient.exe application can access and properly resolve
access to https://www.VersantTest.com... on port 443 from the internal computer that is running CDT.
Note that this access must be available not only to the computer’s browser but also to the
CdtClient.exe application.

2. Verifying DNS Servers


If you have verified that your internal network is not preventing CDT from accessing the Pearson
system but are still getting a “Failure to connect to server” error, then it may be a DNS resolution issue.
In other words, it may be that the CDT Client was unable to locate the www.VersantTest.com servers. If
the browser on the same machine is able to resolve and connect to www.VersantTest.com, you will
need to review both the client machine and the network. We recommend that your IT or network team
do the following:
1. Verify the browser on the client machine does not use a proxy or other special configuration
that is not available to other applications on the machine
2. Determine which DNS servers handle DNS lookups for the client machines you are using to run
CdtClient.exe.
3. Verify these DNS servers are consistent (they all share the same configuration and data) and
verify these DNS servers can resolve www.VersantTest.com
4. Trace route www.VersantTest.com from the client machine and verify the trace route completes
5. Verify Windows is not blocking DNS resolution of the CDT Client (e.g. verify the Windows firewall
settings)

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3. Proxy Server, Firewall and Gateway
If your company uses a Proxy server to access Internet, please make sure to allow access of
https://www.VersantTest.com.

If you still have trouble completing the ping and trace route command to
https://www.VersantTest.com, please add https://www.VersantTest.com to your external firewall and
network gateway to allow direct access.

4. Troubleshooting
To assist in your troubleshooting, Pearson has put together a simple application that checks several
settings on the client machine. The program is almost identical to CDT Client in structure and behavior
so it should provide some insight into what is happening on the client machine. You can download the
installer for this application using this URL:
https://www.pearson.com/content/dam/one-dot-com/one-dot-com/english/versant-
test/SystemProfiler-Dec19.exe

Once downloaded, please install and launch program. There will be two buttons at the top of the
application screen: Start and Save. Click "Start" and the application will run through several checks to
verify screen resolution, DNS, connectivity to the CDT Service, etc. If you would like to save the results,
you may click "Save" to store the results into a text file. Please let us know if this helps identify the issue
or if there is anything else we can do to assist.

5. Bandwidth Considerations
If you are considering using CDT as your preferred testing method, you have the option to download
tests before or during testing sessions. Factors such as how many test stations are used, your Internet
connection speed, and when you download tests could affect how long it takes for data to be
transmitted to Pearson’s scoring system. The charts below outline the required bandwidth to test
centers where CDT tests are to be given.

# test # test # test # test # test # test # test # test


No pre-loading stations stations stations stations stations stations stations stations
1 5 10 20 30 40 50 100
kbytes
connection /sec
CableModem 37
DSL 122
T1 183
T2 771
T3/DS3 5493

Table 1. If tests are not pre-loaded, the light blue configurations in this table will work. The blue configurations will likely
experience download and upload times that are problematic.

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# test # test # test # test # test # test # test # test
With pre-loading stations stations stations stations stations stations stations stations
1 5 10 20 30 40 50 100
kbytes
connection /sec
CableModem 37
DSL 122
T1 183
T2 771
T3/DS3 5493

Table 2. If tests are pre-loaded, the light blue configurations in this table will work. The blue configurations will likely
experience download and upload times that are problematic.

If you encounter any problems, contact our Technical


Support team at [email protected].

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