HTML CERTIFICATION EXPLAINED

The HTML Certification Process is worth 500 points and is required for you to pass CIS 58.54 and receive certification in HTML. The 500 points is broken down in the following manner.

3 online exams each worth 100 points.

A 100 point oral exam given by your instructor in which you are asked to explain the HTML code of a page you created for the client or the team.

Finally 100 points are assigned for the creation of the pages of the client's site if you are a Content Developer and for the Project site, if you are a Project Manager. If this creation went smoothly all 100 points will be assigned. If your technical or communication skills were lacking points will be deducted.

Online Exams Explained

The online exams will be given in the lab, and must be completed before 12/3. Before you can take the exam you need to print out this form and have a member of the lab staff fill it out. Print out 3 copies of the form (one for each exam). After the exam is complete you will be presented with a screen that displays your score. you may print this page and then staple it to the form which has been filled out by the lab staff.

The test must be taken on a SRJC campus.

I recommend you take 1 exam at a time, however it is up to you. No notes are allowed during the exam. You have 60 minutes for each test. The Web site where the exam is taken will record when you started and finished the exam. You may take the exam only once.

How should you prepare for these exams? I have placed 3 sample exams which you can take at home and repeat as often as you like.

• Practice Exam 1
• Practice Exam 2
• Practice Exam 3

I recommend you review your HTML text book. You can also go into the lab and use the 2 CDs I have produced for my online students. Here is what each CD covers:

Creating Web pages with HTML -1 - WWW terms, basic tags, text formatting, links, FTP, graphics, color,

Creating Web pages with HTML -2 -tables, forms, form processing, CSS and SSI

To take the online exams
visit the CATE testing sites listed below

Upon accessing the site you will be asked to enter a session names - the 3 exam names are listed below

Oral exams are given over a period of several weeks. They can be conducted either in the instructor's office or in lab before or after class. To sign up for an exam select from the links below

Sign up for oral HTML Exam
Review oral HTML exam schedule

You will meet me in my office (2939 Maggini Hall) or in the lab in Petaluma and we will sit down at a computer. I will ask the CDs to enter the URL for a Web page they have made for the client site. We will view the source code, starting at the top of the page and working our way down the page, I will ask what various tags are used for, what the name of an image file might be and where it is stored, what the .css file is doing, etc...