Appendix
A: Technical requirements for PCs
Minimum Recommended
Processor Pentium® II 450 MHz
Pentium III 800 MHz
RAM 256 MB 512 MB
Free hard drive space 2 GB 4 GB
Screen resolution 1024 x 768 1280 x
1024
Operating system Windows® 2000 Pro
Windows XP Pro or later
Internet connection 512 kbps 1 Mbps
Internet Explorer v 6 v 7
Adobe Acrobat® v 6 v 6 or later
Adobe Flash Player® v 9.0 v 10.0
or later
Java Runtime
Environment
v 5 v 6
Other Sound card and headphones Sound
card and headphones
Other factors affecting performance
The Cambridge Placement Test is a
real-time online test. As a result, its performance
depends on factors such as internet
connection speed, available bandwidth, the number of
concurrent
internet users on a network, other internet services which are
running, and local ISP capacity.
Applications you can download
You can download the latest version of
Adobe Flash Player from:
• http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
You can download the latest version of
Java Runtime Environment from:
• http://www.java.com
Appendix
B: Configuring Internet Explorer 7 on Candidate PCs
If Internet Explorer 7 is not
configured correctly for Cambridge Placement Test, you may
encounter problems such as the
following:
• The test does not start when
Candidates enter their tokens.
• Internet Explorer displays a
security message referring to a local clipboard.
• Internet Explorer displays pop-up
blocker messages and scripting warnings.
To avoid such problems, follow the
steps below. If you use Internet Explorer 6 and have
problems, similar steps may help.
Make Cambridge Placement Test a
trusted site
1. In Internet Explorer 7, open the
Tools menu and choose Internet Options.
2. On the Security tab, click the
“Trusted sites” icon and then the Sites button.
3. In the “Add this Web site to the
zone” field, type one of the following addresses:
• on PCs that will use the
Administration website:
www.admincpt.cambridgetest.org
• on PCs that will use the Candidate
website:
www.cpt.cambridgetest.org
4. Click the Add button.
5. Click the Close button.
6. If the Default Level button is
enabled, click it.
7. With “Trusted sites” still
selected, move the slider in the lower part of the Internet
Options box to the Medium-Low
position. (The setting applies only to the websites in
your Trusted Sites security zone.)
8. Click the OK button.
Adjust the Pop-Up Blocker setting
1. In Internet Explorer 7, open the
Tools menu and choose Internet Options.
2. On the Privacy tab, in the Pop-Up
Blocker section, click Settings.
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and Test Administrators (June 2009)
3. In the “Address of website to
allow” field, type one of the following addresses:
• on PCs that will use the
Administration website:
www.admincpt.cambridgetest.org
• on PCs that will use the Candidate
website:
www.cpt.cambridgetest.org
4. Click the Close button.
5. Click the OK button.
Allow access to the local clipboard
On Candidate PCs, the Cambridge
Placement Test needs to be able to clear the local
clipboard to help prevent Candidates
copying and printing questions. (The following
procedure applies only to sites in the
Trusted Sites zone.)
1. On Candidate PCs, in Internet
Explorer 7, open the Tools menu and choose Internet
Options.
2. On the Security tab, select Trusted
Sites and click the Custom Level button.
3. Scroll down to the Scripting
section (near the bottom).
4. Under “Allow Programmatic
clipboard access”, select Enable. (In Internet Explorer 6,
this option is called “Allow paste
operations via script”.)
5.
Click the OK button.
6. Click the OK button again.
