Hello :)
The intent of the CC exam was to allow players who have previously played CWRP to skip the traditional training to save both their time, as well as our playerbase and staff teams time.
Assuming a CC training take 10 minutes we've saved 14,070 minutes or 234.5 hours of our players.
for the select times a player with ill intent comes on the server, its much more reasonable to have a staff member spend a couple minutes typing up a ban, then have a staff member train for 10 minutes, then have to spend a couple minutes typing up a ban after whitelisting.
Jayarr sums it up really well, and if you look at the CC numbers I still keep track of below, we are well below peak TR program CC numbers making the TR team obsolete with staff members taking the occasional training and the rest going through the exam.
Also for a short amount of time we had it so CCs could pass the exam but still needed a whitelist and it would lead to players in our late night timezones disconnecting after completing the exam because no staff would be available to whitelist.
@Lovestruck