Trainers’ Update

July 2021
 Certi cates
• ~45% drop of issued certi cates in 2020 vs. 2019

• Slight increase in 2021 vs. 2020

• There are still lot of restrictions for presential training in

many regions
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ONLINE TRAINING?
 Online training?
• Participants can learn from home/of ce without needing
to be away for several days straight

• If the training is offered over longer period of time, more

time to absorb the knowledge, do the LABs

• Can participate in training where classroom training is

not available

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 Online training?
• During an online training participants are less engaged,
more easily distracted

• Less engage in communication with other participants

• Less possibility to work together in groups during the

LABs

• Hard to teach some topics, e.g. Wireless

 Online training?
• Strong believers of classroom based training

• Don’t want to disrupt the status quo

• But at the same time offer more exibility for trainers

• Lot of requests of online training from customers

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R E M O T E T E S T S A L L O W E D F O R C E R T I F I C AT E R E N E WA L S

1 Y E A R T R I A L , S TA R T I N G T O D AY
Certificate renewal course is a training session in which the
participants already hold the certificate
(it might be expired as well)

M i k r o T i k C e r t i f i c a t i o n Te s t O n l i n e P r o c t o r i n g S y s t e m

MTCOPS
 MTCOPS
• Will record video/audio from webcam

• Record desktop (screen sharing)

• Log open URL’s during the test

• Send it to MikroTik for later inspection

• Videos will be stored for up to 3 months

 MTCOPS
• Google Chrome extension

• Supported by other Chrome based browsers:

• Microsoft Edge
• Opera
• Brave
• And others

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 MTCOPS
• Reluctant to offer MTCNA this way as it is rst experience
with MikroTik. And there’s wireless there as well

• In future might offer advanced engineer level courses for

new certi cates as well, e.g. MTCINE

• As participants are already highly skilled and familiar

with MikroTik
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 Updated Terms & Conditions

• MikroTik Certi ed Trainer can offer MikroTik Training
Sessions in the class at the presence of the person who
wants to participate or remotely using his/her tool of
choice for distance learning. MikroTik Certi cation Test
can be assigned under the direct supervision of a MikroTik
Certi ed Trainer in the class or remotely. In case of a
remote MikroTik Certi cation Test the person who
wants to participate is required to use MikroTik
Certi cation test Online Proctoring System (MTCOPS).
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 Updated Terms & Conditions
• MikroTik Certi ed Trainer shall not offer anybody to take
MikroTik Certi cation Test without prior attendance of
particular MikroTik Training Session by the same
MikroTik Certi ed Trainer.
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International sanctions are still in place
• Remote training is not permitted to be offered to
participants from sanctioned countries

• Please double check this if offering remote training

 MTCOPS future
• Working on URL blacklist, if opened, participant will be
informed that this URL contains information not permitted
to be used during the test

• Looking into “classroom mode” for presential training -

Desktop stream only, URL log