How we check our facts

Every exam detail on this site comes from the vendor that runs the exam: its certification pages, exam guides, blueprints and outlines. That covers exam codes, the number of questions, time limits, passing scores, prices, domain weights, and launch and retirement dates.

Each of our 278 exam guides links to the vendor’s official page for that exam, so you can check any figure at the source.

Where a vendor doesn’t publish a figure, we say so instead of estimating. Several vendors don’t publish passing scores, for example.

Pay and job-outlook figures on our “is it worth it” pages come from O*NET OnLine, the US Department of Labor’s occupation database, which reports Bureau of Labor Statistics data. They describe a whole occupation, not what the holders of a certificate earn, and the pages say so. When a page quotes a vendor’s claim about pay or demand, it names the vendor and links the page it came from.

An automated check runs every Monday for the 12 vendors we cover. It re-reads their official certification pages and exam guides and compares them with what we publish: the list of certifications, exam codes and versions, launch and retirement dates, exam length, passing scores and domain weights. When something differs, we review the change and update the page.

Some pages can’t be read automatically. Salesforce’s exam guides and Splunk’s site turn automated readers away, and some exam outlines sit behind a sign-up form. For Salesforce and Splunk exams, the domain weights were read from search results that quote the official exam guides. We check these facts by hand, so they’re checked less often than every week.

Prices are part of the weekly check: for 137 exams, it reads the price from the vendor’s own page. Prices on pages that can’t be read automatically are checked by hand, and those guides show the day the cost was last checked.

Exam guides, vendor pages and free tools show the date their facts were last checked or changed. A date changes only when we re-check the facts or change the page.

When a vendor announces a new exam version, a new outline or a retirement, the guide shows the date. Until that day it describes the current exam, and from that day it describes the new one.

Retirement dates for every vendor are collected in the exam retirement calendar. A retired certification leaves the site, and its old address leads to that vendor’s page here.

Our 261 free practice tests are original. Every question is written for this site from the exam’s published objectives and comes with an explanation. Each test spreads its questions across the exam’s domains by their official weights.

We never use questions from real exams, and we don’t publish or accept brain dumps. They break the agreement every candidate makes with the vendor, and they don’t teach the material.

Practice questions show the style and the topics of an exam. They aren’t a prediction of the questions you’ll get.

OpenpassAI is an AI learning platform, and we use AI models to produce this site too. They draft the exam guides and practice questions, and they helped build the weekly check.

AI models can be wrong, so we don’t publish exam facts from a model’s memory. Each figure is taken from the vendor’s own material and checked again as described above.

We review practice questions against the vendors’ current objectives and documentation, starting with the most popular exams, and we fix what’s out of date.

OpenpassAI is an independent training company. We aren’t affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by CompTIA, AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, ISC2, PMI, NVIDIA, Databricks, Salesforce and Splunk or any other certification vendor. Their names and the names of their certifications are their trademarks.

Vendors don’t pay to appear here, and nobody can pay to change a fact.

We run an affiliate program: affiliates earn a commission when someone they refer subscribes. They have no say in what these pages state.

Our comparison pages compare OpenpassAI with other ways to prepare. We write them, so read them as our view. The facts in them are dated and checked like the rest of the site.

Two of the products we compare ourselves with, ExamsDigest and LabsDigest, were started by OpenpassAI’s founder, Nick Gorgotsias. Those pages say so.

Nick Gorgotsias has been building education startups since 2016, starting with ExamsDigest. He is a published author on Amazon and an instructor on Udemy. More on the About page.

If something here is wrong or out of date, email info@openpassai.com with the page’s address and what should change. We check it against the vendor’s official page, fix what’s wrong and update the page’s date.

For anything else, see the contact page.