DSST Testing Centers in the Pacific Northwest?

[LeCygne]

Warner Pacific College is definitely the place to go now (2014) for DSST exams in the Portland-Vancouver area. Karen Banks is still their Adult Degree Program testing coordinator. She has picked up on the first ring each time I've called, but then I made a point not to do it while she was proctoring. There is now no limit on the number of outside students who can test, your reservation cannot be bumped once you've paid, and the fee is still only $30.

Warner Pacific currently has two published testing days per month in addition to the unannounced days you can get in on when you schedule by phone, like I just did, for the Fundamentals of Cyber Security exam I took there yesterday.

Their ADP testing center is by far the best appointed I've used in the area: two dozen new-ish computers with big high-resolution flat-screen monitors and clean, working keyboards and mice, in a quiet, spacious, well-lit temperature controlled room full of comfortable chairs at ergonomic workstations. The proctor is physically present in the room for the whole test and unobtrusive as a librarian. I like that better than being on closed circuit video. The testing center is easy to get to by car, bus or MAX, and parking is free.

To be fair, when I tested at DeVry's Keller Graduate School of Management way on the far side of Portland, they were renovating the building, so I was lucky to get the opportunity at all. DeVry no longer offers DSST's in this area. Phoenix shut down their Vancouver location near my home before I got a chance to try them.

Things change. Sometimes for the better.