A brain dump is a collection of information on a topic, which can be written, spoken, or electronic. The term is often associated with illegal sites that contain specific information about IT certification testing. Certification brain dump sites are a form of cheating and reduce the legitimacy of the test. Brain dump can also refer to unedited emails or posts and the act of depositing information from a person’s brain onto a computer, which is currently not possible.
A brain dump, often called a braindump, is a collection of information about a particular topic. This information can be written down, spoken aloud, or stored as electronic media. While emails and blogs may be called brain dumps, the term is more often associated with illegal sites that contain specific information about information technology (IT) certification testing.
The most common use of the term brain dump is to refer to a website that contains a large amount of information about a specific IT certification test. Examples of such tests include A+, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE), or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). A website with specific information about one of these certification tests is called a certification brain dump.
Certification brain dump sites are a form of cheating because they include illegally collected information from people who recently took the test. Test takers are required to sign a confidentiality agreement, promising that they will not divulge information about specific test questions. A certification brain dump site often includes actual questions that were on the test, as well as information about the topics covered and the number of questions asked on each topic. Test takers who cheat on these sites reduce the legitimacy of the test because they study specific questions and may not have much knowledge in the field outside of these specifics. For this reason, the companies that manage the certification tests devote significant resources to the closure of these sites.
Any collection of electronic information can be called a brain dump. A stream-of-consciousness email or blog post is commonly referred to by this name because the writer of one is said to download, or download, the contents of his or her brain. These emails and posts usually go unedited, and a rambling email, website, or blog that attempts to answer a question with an abundance of information, but not necessarily a lot of organization, can also be called a brain dump.
Brain dump can also refer to the act of depositing all of the information stored in a person’s brain onto a computer. This is not possible, as there is no interface that allows a computer to read a person’s thoughts. The human brain can also store much more information than even the most sophisticated computers. Despite the implausibility of this concept, some future theorists believe that it may one day be possible to “download” a human brain onto a computer.
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