Candidate bans

If a candidate violates any testing rule, exam policy, or term within the exam agreement (NDA), or engages in any misconduct that diminishes the security and integrity of the Microsoft Certification Program in any way, the candidate may be permanently prohibited from taking any future Microsoft Certification exams. In addition, the candidate may be decertified from the Microsoft Certification Program, and test scores and certifications may be revoked.

Examples of such misconduct, misuse, and fraud include, but are not limited to, the following:

•Falsifying score reports, by modifying and/or altering the original results/score reports for any exam record

•Cheating during the exam (such as looking at the monitors of other exam takers)

•Providing or accepting improper assistance

•Bringing non-authorized items into the testing center during an exam session (such as notes or unauthorized materials and electronic devices, such as cell phones)

•Using unauthorized material in attempting to satisfy certification requirements (this includes using "brain-dump" material and/or unauthorized publication of exam questions with or without answers)

•Falsifying identity or impersonating another individual to gain access to an exam

•Misconduct as determined by statistical analysis

•Copying, publishing, disclosing, transmitting, selling, offering to sell, posting, downloading, distributing in any way, or otherwise transferring, modifying, making derivative works of, reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or translating any exam in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, verbal or written, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose

•Disclosing Microsoft intellectual property (IP)

•Disseminating actual exam content

•Using the exam content in any manner that violates applicable law

•Violating the current exam retake policy

•Violating the Microsoft non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in any way

•Violating the Prometric exam agreement in any way