Three checkpoints, one account
A pre-assessment and a post-assessment on every course, and a practice exam on the courses that lead to a certification.
Pre-assessment
Every course has one. An engineer takes it with a free Adept account, no purchase required, and sees whether the course fits before a seat is bought. You see who needs the training and who can skip ahead.
Post-assessment
Every course has one of these too. Taken after the course, it shows what changed. Set beside the pre-assessment, it is the evidence of training impact you can put in front of leadership.
Certification practice exams
For the courses that prepare for a certification. Timed, simulated exams your team rehearses on before the exam date is booked. Courses that share a certification share the exam.
See Practice ExamsHow the questions are made
Pre- and post-assessment questions come from the course itself, so what gets measured is what gets taught.
Grounded in the course itself
Every question starts from the full transcript of the CBT Nuggets course, the exact material your team watches.
Learning objectives first
The objectives each video teaches are derived first, so the assessment measures what the course promises. Nothing more, nothing less.
Concepts mapped and organized
Transcript passages are grouped into concepts, labeled by depth and difficulty, and tied back to the objectives.
Questions written with citations
Each question is written against a concept and cites the video moment that teaches the answer.
How every question earns its place
A readiness report is only as trustworthy as the questions behind it. Every item passes automated gates, expert review, and trainer checks before it serves, and live statistics keep auditing it afterward.
Validation gates
Every candidate question passes structural checks, grounding checks against the transcript, and answer-leakage screens. A question that cannot be verified never ships.
A panel of AI reviewers
Independent reviewers score accuracy, clarity, and whether the question stands on its own for any IT professional.
Trainer spot checks
CBT Nuggets trainers review question samples blind, two reviewers at a time. A confirmed problem retires the question.
Learner reports
Every assessment lets a learner flag a question. Reports are reviewed, and problem questions are rewritten or retired.
Live item statistics
Real responses feed difficulty and discrimination statistics for every question. Items that stop pulling their weight are surfaced for retirement.
For IT Directors: readiness you can act on and defend
Assessments turn training hours into numbers you can plan with before a course and report on after it.
Who needs the course
Pre-assessment results before a seat is assigned show who needs the training, who can skip ahead, and where the real gaps are. Training hours go where they change outcomes.
What the course changed
Pre- and post-assessment results side by side, per engineer and per course. The gain is the evidence of training impact leadership asks for.
One report for the team
Results roll up per member and per course on the team dashboard, next to practice-exam activity, with CSV export and a print view for audits and reviews.
Ready to see where your team stands?
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