Our CBT Center & Infrastructure

what makes us tick

Balad CBT Center

Our Computer Based Testing Center is highly equiped to give you the comfort and pleasure during your testing and examination. We have partnered with the Joint Admission Matriculations Board (JAMB) to conduct the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations for more than two years now. And we are equally equiped to handle your examination needs from registration to conduct of your examinations. Below is the facts and figures about our testing center.

Infrastructures(Building)
  • 308 Sitting Capacity
  • 320 Room Capacity
  • Adequate Lighting
  • Building's Date of Completion: 2015
  • PVC Inner Ceiling Material
  • 5 Doors Entrance/Exit Hall
  • 4 Internal or In-Hall Toilets
  • 10 External or Out-of-Hall Toilets
  • 320 Cubicles
  • 320 Cubicles
  • 350 Sitting Chairs
  • Split Unit Air Conditioning Systems
  • Holding Area Available
  • 250 Sitting Capacity Holding Area
  • Holding Area Equiped with Canopy and Chairs
  • Location with a Fenced Construction
  • Fenced CBT Center
  • Sufficient numbers of wall clock
Computers and Technology
  • 308 Functional Computers
  • 288 Thin Client (with 2GB RAM each) & 20 Desktop Computers
  • Windows 7 Operating Systems
  • 18" Screen Size
  • Single Hall for accomodation for all Computers
  • Type I maxi view for Monitor, Mouse & Keyboard
Power and Electrical
  • Inverter/UPS Backup
  • 30 Piece of Energy Saving Building
  • Standard and Standby Generator Set
  • JMG Generator Model
  • 110KVA Generating Capacity
  • 260 Litters Diesel Fuel Tank
  • Legend Change Over Model
  • Distribution Box
  • System Power Connection Type: Surface Connection Network
  • Network Caching Present: Yes
  • Network Switch Models: D-Links
  • Number of Ports: 48 Ports
  • Number of Switches: 6 (48 Port Switches)(Min. 8 for 24 Ports)
  • 3 (24 Port) Switches
  • No of Switches: 11 Switches
  • Server Rack Present: Yes
Servers
  • Server Present: Yes
  • Server Room Location: Within the Room and Halls
  • No of Servers Present: 3
  • All Available Systems Are Connected To Server
  • Hard Disk Size: 2 No of 1TB on Two (2) Dell Servers Each & 1 TB of Storage of HUAWEI Server
  • RAM Size: 2 64Gb RAM on Two (2) DELL Servers & 48GB RAM on HUAWEI Server
  • CD ROM Present: Yes
  • Server Orientation: Rack
  • Server Processor: 1 Processor Intel XEON on Each Dell Servers with 2.4GHz Processing Speed
  • Year Acquired: September 2017
  • Distribution Box
Personnel & Staff
  • No of Technical Personnel: 4 Staff
  • No of CISCO Certified Personnel: 1
  • No of Network Administrators/Engineers: 2
  • No of Security Personnel: 4
  • No of Administrative Peronnel: 3
CCTV & Surveillance System
  • No of Cameras Present: 16
  • Digital Video Recorder Present: Yes
  • Password to DVR Available & Verified: Yes
  • Ability to View Live Recording: Yes
  • Ability to PlayBack Recording (With Up to 1 Month Storage): Yes
  • Ability to Export to External HDD: Yes
  • Ability to View Live Recording: Yes
  • Ability to View Playback Through Standard Browser
  • Standard Search & Navigation Control Present: Yes
  • Power Back Up for Video Recorder Present: Yes
  • RJ45 LAN Network Port of DVR Present: Yes
  • Hard Drive Capacity of DVR: One 1TB
  • Recording Capacity of DVR: 24/7
  • No of Analog Cameras: 16