CAT2009 Online Exam-Crisis: Experts are doubtfull about the theory of virus attacks on server

Posted by admin | November 30, 2009 .

MUMBAI: The chaos and confusion prevailed during the online Common Admission Test (CAT) for IIMs avoid technical problems and removed almost 14% of all laboratories in India with 10% of the candidates for the exam on Saturday. However, the official explanation for the fiasco came after a day of computer viruses.

Software experts and those in the field of guidance CAT added refuted the claim that viruses are the best excuse for what can go wrong with the computer systems are. Virus attack''is the standard excuse is given when something goes wrong. Today we have learned to cope with the virus. This is a possible cause of what happened,''said Vijay Mukhi, an expert in technology and president of the Club of Technology Bombay. ''The computer is where the torture must be completely disabled, then the CAT software installed on them, so there is nothing for these computers. In this case, as the virus in the system?''Request Mukhi.

''If there is a global outbreak of viruses, it is difficult to believe that the virus could be the cause. The IIMs have a system very secure. In addition, the cat does not have a public network,''said Sujit Bhattacharya, director, Technology Career Launcher, a CAT coaching class.

''I am the main system and found the virus only a very unlikely explanation for what happened. A virus can affect so many places at one time, unless the test was conducted over the Internet rather than through the local server. But the IIMs have stated categorically that it will take control through local servers,''he said ARKS Srinivas, President, time, a CAT coaching class.

''We are facing the same problems encountered by the IIMs, as we have our own online mock CAT. It took a bit 'to understand what went wrong. The problem is that the server was unable to take the load so servers rented from Amazon for the test,''said Srinivas.

The company defends itself by saying that they had put the best shots. Exhaustive''plans be developed and implemented in advance. Unfortunately, attacks, viruses and malicious software, testing the system for providing anti-virus software detected in the test facilities. Applicants must be reported, and our first priority,''the statement Ramesh Nava, Prometric, VP and General Manager (Asia-Pacific, Japan and Africa), with the words