Can I Review Questions After Finishing an Exam?
Yes, on the demo and on Premium alike. When the session closes, every item you were asked comes back with each option marked against what you did with it and, where one was written, an explanation attached to the option rather than to the question.
The review is the part of a practice session that does the teaching, so it repays knowing exactly what it puts in front of you. It is also the easiest part to close too quickly, arriving as it does at the end of a session you are relieved to have finished.
When the Review Appears During a Practice Exam
At the end, and only at the end. No item tells you how you did while it is still on the screen, and no running tally builds up beside the clock. The reason is that a session is measured as one thing. Told after the third item that you had got it wrong, you would sit the remaining items differently, and the pacing the session exists to test would already be gone. This is the same on the free sample as on both Premium lengths: the demo does not withhold the review, and Premium does not unlock it.
What the Review Marks Against Each Answer Option
The marking is per option rather than per item, and there are four things an option can be told:
- Correct: you chose it, and it answers the requirement the prompt set out
- Wrong: you chose it, and it does not
- Almost correct: you chose something defensible on an item where a better option was sitting there unchosen
- Should have chosen: you passed over it, and it belonged in the answer
Alongside any of the four, an item can carry text written for that particular option — why this one fails the requirement, or why that one was the better reading — rather than one note attached to the item as a whole. None of that is partial credit. The markings describe what became of each option; the item itself is still scored as one unit, all of it or none.
The middle two are where the value sits. Take an item that puts a badge printer on a switch port running 802.1X and asks how it is admitted to the network. MAC authentication bypass is what the requirement is after. A guest VLAN, reached because the port hears no supplicant at all and eventually stops waiting for one, is not a false statement about the technology and would indeed get the printer connected; it answers a requirement nobody set. Marked as almost correct, that reads as a near miss in your reasoning. Marked flatly wrong, it would read as a hole in your knowledge, and you would go away and study the wrong thing.
Opening a Finished Attempt Again Later
You do not get one look at it. Every completed sitting stays in your list of attempts for that exam and opens back into the same review from there, for as long as that record survives its retention. Two things about it are settled on other pages and need only a pointer here. The answer options come back in the arrangement you actually saw, because what you saw is held with the attempt rather than rebuilt afterwards. And which device suits reopening an attempt is answered elsewhere as well.
Every option you touched, and every one you should have, comes back marked when a networking certification exam session ends, and comes back again whenever you reopen that attempt. What the review will not do is teach you an objective you were never asked about.
