It is funny that you mention test centers being involved. To the lesser experienced folks making a career change they went as far as providing sample tests that were suspiciously identical to the Microsoft Exams. I guess being able to say that you have a 95% success rate for your boot camps means helping students cheat. You can tell which test centers and instructors care about students learning the material. They will work with the students who have no prior background in IT. They should have started in A+ training before jumping into the MCSE/CCNA boot camp. There are minimum requirements that need to be met, right?

Shady test centers are more concerned at churning out MCSEs in what I describe as paper mills. Watch out for these places. They get you in the door and take your money and once you leave the close shop and move to another town. Some of career movers began to brag how well they were doing on their exams but in class they couldn't even troubleshoot a network interface card. Everone caught on that the new to IT folks were getting a little something extra with their study materials. Alarmingly, the test center was providing 'student loans' to some people in class and these individuals got calls from their banks that the test center had taken out loans or attempted to remortgage their homes on thier behalf to get them to the IT training. Halfway through the two week boot camp, the half of the class on such loans rebelled and threatened to sue for the deceptive practices in this CTEC Academy in Duluth, Georgia. As soon as the Academy got paid from the bank they closed shop and relocated. They reopened right next door and renamed themselves. It is a scam to get money from student loans for careers in IT, acting, nursing, and business schools. Do your homework! Look up the place in the BBB. If they offer something too good to be true then it is not. They post on the job sites for paid internships and training all over the US. The burden falls on you because you have to repay the bank not the school. The bank doesn't care if the school no longer exists.