In the exam, you may get a tool from the Mandatory exercises, or Optional exercises, or a tool that is not listed, or covered in the exercise pages.
Putting Your Skills To Test
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Solving the Mandatory exercises and the challenges in the exercises should equip you with the skills required to work with other tools in the exam, and in the real world.
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Solving the Challenges included in many exercises is going to improve your research and problem-solving skills, preparing you for the exam, and the real world.
The Choice of Mandatory Curriculum
The tools and techniques in Mandatory curriculum are carefully chosen based on several factors, including:
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Whether teaching this tool would help learn multiple techniques and skills.
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Whether teaching this tool would help acquire skills that can be commonly applied across other tools.
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Whether teaching this tool would help in real-world assessments.
What Is The Purpose of Optional Curriculum?
Optional exercises are like an added cherry on top of a cake. Optional exercises are:
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A means of providing added value to the course.
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Expose the learner to a specific tool they may want to learn or use.
And sometimes, and in some courses Optional exercises may appear as you are spoiled for choice.
Note: Optional curriculum might sometimes have some instructions or version differences in tooling, and you may want to work around those yourself based on the skills you have acquired through the Mandatory curriculum.
Is optional lab and exercises part of the exam?
"Mandatory" exercises equip you with the necessary skills and tactics to work any other tool.Our focus on the course is to teach principles, skills, and tactics, we use exercises with the "Mandatory" tag to accomplish that.
In the exam, you may get a tool from the "Mandatory" exercise, or "Optional" or a tool that is not listed in the exercise pages. Solving the Mandatory exercises and the challenges should equip you with the skills required to work with other tools in the exam, and in the real world.
Kindly review the lessons below, it has all the information you need with respect to Mandatory exercises, and exam tips.