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A Guide To The Testing Center| Category | | | Summary | | The Testing Center was released on June 1st, 2005. This article is going to describe the process of taking a test and the process of creating a test. |
| | Body | What is the Testing Center
The Testing Center (TC), is a sub-brigade of Cyberarmy University (CAU), which provides a testing engine to the users. In plain english, it's a way to test your knowledge on a particular subject such as Linux, Unix, HTML or VB.
Tests - How are They Made
Currently, we are in the process of making tests, based on classes, taught by people in the Class Delivery brigade. For example, Visual Basic 101 was taught by Icydemon and a test was created based on that class to enable people who attended (or those who read the log) to see if they understood the class and to test what was taught.
Tests can also be based on articles from the Knowledge Bank (KB) of CAU or they can be stand-alone; that means that there can be tests with no reference in any sub-brigade of CAU.
How to Take a Test
After creating an account on CAU's website, just go to the Testing Center section and click the link entitled "Take a Test."
You will be redirected to another page where you will see all the tests we provide. Simply select the test you want to take (e.g. linux 101) and click the "Take" link in the options column.
Once loaded, read carefully the information and click on the start button.
There are 25 multiple choice questions on each test. You must choose one from the five possible answers in each question. You have to answer to each question in 30 seconds and complete the test in 30 minutes.
Some will say that 30 seconds * 25 questions = 12 minutes and 30 seconds. Yes, but if anything happens, we give you some extra time to postpone the test for a couple of minutes.
Be warned though that the TC has anti-cheating mechanisms. For example, all questions in a test are randomly chosen and answers are randomly positioned (e.g. the first answer can be the last if you take the test another time), so it is very hard to cheat. Cheaters will be severely punished.
The Process of Creating a Test
So, you think you have the "elite" skills necessary to compile a test? First, you will need to have good knowledge of the english language (although, we may create some tests in foreign languages) and at least good (expert is preferred) knowledge of the subject you want to write a test on.
So, you have the skills- the first thing you should do is contact the C/O of TC with your test idea. Then, the C/O will tell you if you may create the test (because, we may already have this particular test or something similar in progress).
If the C/O of TC, agrees and tells you that you are welcome to create the test (or tells you to co-operate with a person who is already working on a similar test), you are required to compile a test in .txt format which MUST follow these guidelines:
- The test must have at least 25 multiple choice questions.
- Each question must have 2 to 5 possible answers, from these, one has to be correct.
- At least 25 questions must have "equal level" with the test. For example, if you are creating a test based on Linux 301 (3 denotes the level of the test, and 01 denotes that it's the first in a chain of tests), at least 25 of the questions of the test must have a level of difficulty equal to 3. If you want to add more than 25 questions, the extra questions can have any level of difficulty.
- The test must be in this format:
[TEST NAME]
[AUTHOR NAME]
1. First Question (level of difficulty, if not the same with the test)
A. This (correct)
B. That
C. All of them
D. None of them
E. N/A (not applicable, which states that user must not select this)
Consider this as an example:
VISUAL BASIC 101 TEST
By ICYDEMON
1. Integer variables can have numbers up to (approximately)
A. 32000 (correct)
B. 16000
C. 128
D. None of them
E. N/A
After creating the test, you have to e-mail or cMS the C/O of the TC with it, so that he/she can review it and assign it to someone to add it to the database. That's the process of creating a test in a nutshell.
The Future
We are planning to create some tests based on articles which are featured in the Knowledge Bank of the Testing Center and maybe we will create some tests in foreign languages (think of that: Linux 101 French :) ).
For any questions or extra information, you are welcome to contact the C/O of the Testing Center. |
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