IT Exam Practice is a portal for online exams that is built and maintained by a network of volunteers. It exists to serve the IT community and help people worldwide freely test their IT skills.

Why we exist: There is a common problem for many people in the IT industry. They have acquired skills and practical experience and they want to get certified. However before actually taking a certification exam they want to test themselves to see if they are ready for it. There are few free resources to help with this task; mostly paid-for commercial products need to be used.
   Various individuals have put up free resources on the net, that they have contributed themselves, but all of it is rather unorganized/difficult to find etc. IT Exam Practice exists to address these problems and help fix them over the long term.

IT Exam Practice goals:

• To provide a centralized information resource for IT professionals to test their skills
• To provide free information that others may further use and build upon
• Never to require user fees for its services

IT Exams are built up in a truly collaborative fashion where anyone may propose new content/questions and teams of qualified exam administrators and moderators approve or reject it on the basis of merit (via a transparent voting process).

The focus is on two main types of exams:

• Certification Mock Exams - to help you prepare for official certification exams in the IT industry. These exams are maintained by volunteers with a proven competence in the respective field (i.e. already certified professionals). They simulate as closely as possible the technical subject matter and complexity of the real certification exams. Passing an exam here thus gives an IT professional a degree of assurance that he will pass the real exam.
• Special Technology Exams - Built by the community, these exams feature technical subjects of interest to its members. They do not try to simulate existing industry/commercial exams.

   All exam content on this site is "free" (as in "freedom") and available under a GFDL license. This license also guarantees that this content will always remain free for anyone to use and further improve. The software behind the site is also "free" (as in "freedom") and may be found here. All registered users may download exam content and replicate this site for their own purposes if they wish (please note the free software licensing obligations for the software and exam content).

Exam results are delivered in two types of scores:

• Percentage Score - this is the most common measure of success at an exam. It just represents the percentage of correct answers of the total number of questions. Whether you achieve a passing score depends on the standards of the particular exam (you will need to check what the required score is). The percentage score is a useful measure for most exams but unfortunately not all.
• Points Score - Some exams have a complex way to calculate the final score, based on points and weight assigned to different question types. IT Exam Practice currently supports a simplified system of points scoring where each exam section carries a certain number of points per question answered correctly. Exams that are mainly oriented toward percentage scores usually always have one point per question.

IT Exam Practice does not yet support a system on non-linear scoring where complex formulas are used to get a final points score, based on the distribution of correct answers among sections (such a feature will be implemented in the future).

There are three types of users on the site:

• Ordinary users (everyone in the community) - they may test their skill in different exams and they may submit questions and thus contribute to the building of exams. ITExamPractice is created to serve these users and help them test their own skills. They are the poeple whose enthusiasm ITExamPractice needs so as to grow...
     When taking exams, users may decide to have only questions that have been previously approved by exam administrators or they may choose a random selection of all available questions.
  
  
• Exam Administrators - in addition to all that ordinary users are qllowed to do, exam administrators are responsible for quality control of the exam information that all users submit to the site. One may become an exam administrator on an exam only if he has already passed the exam (i.e. has been certified) or has proved his/her competence in some other way. Exam administrators vote on individual questions that have been submitted. If the votes in favor are at least 2/3 of the votes, then an exam question is officially "approved".
     This quality control is necessary because for all their enthusiasm, ordinary users with only partial competence are not always capable of distinguishing "appropriate" from "inappropriate" exam questions. The criteria for a question typically are:
  1. Must be technically correct
  2. Must be well focused on the subject matter and not deviate from it
  3. Must be neither too easy nor too difficult for the particular exam - this point is most tricky and we believe we need exam administrators to deal with it.
  
  
• Site moderators - these are the people who run the day-to-day operations of the site, create administrative accounts, keep watch to make sure everyone follows the established rules etc. If you have any problem or question you may contact site moderators directly. Please report to the moderators any site activity you have noticed that is forbidden/inappropriate.

Additional resources:

• Questions Submission Guide
• Wiki format HTML guide.