Patent ID: 8915744

Claim:
A system for providing dynamic scalability to a plurality of distributed exam center servers, the system comprising: a knowledge center server that stores a plurality of questions in one or more categories; an analytics engine, operably coupled to the knowledge center, that derives performance metrics for the plurality questions; a centralized data center server coupled to the analytics engine, wherein the centralized data center server: sends online test content to the plurality of distributed exam center servers in order to conduct a test, receives results corresponding to the test in encrypted form from the plurality of distributed exam center servers, wherein the plurality of distributed exam center servers are communicatively coupled to the centralized data center server, wherein the centralized data center server remotely accesses each distributed exam center server for continuous infrastructure data gathering from the plurality of distributed exam center servers to further ensure a smooth communication between the centralized data center server and each distributed exam center server, and wherein each distributed exam center server manages a load of a plurality of requests for a test from a plurality of candidates through a batching mechanism that groups the plurality of candidates automatically into one or more batches.