Technip

Electronic supported assessment or online exam assessment is the current computer based assessment models focus on the assessment of knowledge rather than deeper understandings, using auto evaluation type questions. This study explored a new system based on next generation exam needs and EPractize Labs come up with an assessment tool named Skill Evaluation Lab. The system has been made available for other researchers to use at http://www.onlineexamlab.com.

TECHNIP is primarily in the energy business and is active in three business segments, namely Subsea, Offshore & Onshore. It has around 38,000 employees and operates in 48 countries. It owns a fleet of 21 vessels in operation with 6 more under construction.

Technip was certified as one of the first five companies in the world as a Global Top Employer 2015 which recognizes first-class employee offerings globally and equally. This independent certification delivered by the Top Employers Institute demonstrates the quality and consistency of the company’s human resources policies and practices all around the globe.

Technip has also been certified as a Top Employer in 24 single countries (Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela and Vietnam) as well as in three regions (Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America).

Challenge

The company began exploring options to help enable their employees to take practice exams remotely while maintaining integrity. As part of their research, they needed the solution to satisfy two important criteria; first, the ability to completely secure (or invigilate) an exam remotely and secondly, a complete scalable platform to take exams for up to huge number of exam takers at a time.

Solution

EPractize Labs partnered with Institute of Engineering Studies to explore the potential solutions for securing Technip exams remotely. Their approach took into consideration the following: The company wants to conduct online test for their employees from any branch. EPractize Labs recommends single server with the following configurations.

Conclusion

The product has been successfully deployed and first test event does not have evidence about scalability issue. The product proved to support more than 1000 concurrent access from single server instance.