CertifyDeck

Transparency

How we build CertifyDeck's content, and why it's built that way.

We don't use exam dumps

Some certification-prep sites source their questions from leaked or memorized real exam content — commonly called "dumps." Using them violates the certification vendor's exam agreement, can get an accountholder disqualified, and teaches you to recognize specific phrasing instead of actually understanding the material.

CertifyDeck does not use dumps. Every practice question, skill-point summary, and article on this site is written from scratch by reasoning about the publicly published skills-measured outline for each certification — never by copying or paraphrasing text from a real exam.

What we do use as source material

The only inputs we treat as ground truth are things the certification vendor publishes openly: the official skills-measured document, publicly documented product behavior, and well-known facts about exam logistics (format, duration, passing score, retake policy). None of that is confidential — it's the same information anyone can find on the vendor's own certification page.

Why this matters for you

Questions written from a topic outline force you to reason about the underlying concept, which is a much closer simulation of the real exam experience than memorizing dump answers — the real exam also tests concepts, not phrasing you've seen before.

It also means you're not putting your certification at risk. Using dump content is grounds for revocation under most vendors' exam agreements. Studying with original content sidesteps that risk entirely.