In order to ensure the quality and consistent look of the information on IT Exam Practice every submitted question should meet a set of basic requirements as detailed here:

Content:

• The question, its answers marked right/wrong and the explanation should contain no technical errors
• Try to make the question/answers/explanation neither too short nor too long. When facing such a decision: short is better than long
• The question must be focused on the technical subject of the exam and exam section. It must not deviate into other subjects.
• The question should not be too easy or too difficult by the standards of the particular exam. In particular answering the question right should not depend on knowing "tricks" that people who get certified are not required to know...
• The explanation should make it clear to users why the right answers are right and the wrong ones are wrong.
• At least one of the answers for a multiple choice answer question needs to be checked as correct.
• The number of right answers should not be more than 50-60% of the total number of answers.
• It is not recommended to have questions with more than 6 possible answers. Answers are numbered in Latin letters and you may reference them in the explanation.
• When you create multiple choice questions, you should consider informing the user how many answers are right. Not doing so results in complex questions and is rarely acceptable by the standard of IT exams.

Presentation and form:

• You must fill correctly and clearly in wiki-format HTML the question text and its explanation.
• Excerpts from the question/answers/explanation that are program source code or operating system commands entered on a command line must be appropriately formatted as such (e.g. via the [code]...[/code] or [pre]...[/pre] tags)
• Special HTML symbols must not be entered directly (the system will either not accept your submission or just show the symbols wrongly after that) but as Wiki-tags. Here is a list of symbols not to be entered literally and tags to use in their place:
  • & - [amp]
  • " - [quot]
  • ' - [apos]
  • < - [lt]
  • > - [gt]

The above are general guidelines. The concrete decision on whether these requirements are met is left to exam administrators who vote on the questions.

Here is an example of a well formatted complete question as it is submitted:


And this is what the rendered question looks like: