Where our questions come from
If you are about to spend $300 on an exam voucher, you are entitled to know what you are studying from. This page explains how CrushCert questions are written, what we will not do, and what happens when we get something wrong.
Every question is original
Every CrushCert question is written specifically for CrushCert, against the vendor's published exam objectives. We do not use, buy, scrape, or reproduce real exam content.
This is not only an ethical position, it is a practical one for you. Real exam items are copyrighted, and when you sit a Cisco, CompTIA or AWS exam you accept an agreement not to disclose them. Cisco and CompTIA both actively pursue sites that traffic in stolen items, and candidates found using them can have results invalidated and be barred from future exams. A braindump can cost you the certification you are paying to earn.
It is also bad preparation. Memorising leaked items teaches you those items. The exam changes; the underlying competence does not. Our questions are built to make you reason through the objective, which is what the real exam is testing.
What we can tell you about the bank
These figures are measured directly from our live question bank, not estimated:
- 3,404 questions across the 14 certifications we currently support.
- Every question has a written explanation. An automated check across all 14 banks on 29 July 2026 found zero questions missing one.
- No duplicates. The same check found no repeated questions within any exam.
- Questions are tagged to the vendor's own exam domains, and our per-domain question mix tracks the published blueprint weightings closely — for CCNA, within about five points on every domain.
We would rather publish a real number that is smaller than a round number that is flattering. Where a certification's bank is thinner than we would like, we would rather you knew that before subscribing than discovered it in week two.
How we check ourselves
- An automated validator runs across the entire bank and fails on structural problems that could mis-grade you: a missing or out-of-range answer key, a question with no explanation, duplicate or blank options, and encoding damage.
- Answer keys have been through a dedicated accuracy review pass.
- Distractors (the wrong options) are checked so the correct answer is not simply the longest one — a real tell that lets people pass practice tests without knowing the material.
When we get one wrong
We will get some wrong. Any bank of several thousand hand-written questions contains errors; anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What matters is whether there is a way to fix them.
There is. Every question has a “Something wrong with this question?” link on the answer screen, and on every question in your mock-exam review. Reports land in a queue grouped by question, so if several people flag the same item it goes straight to the top. You do not need to email anyone or find a form.
If you would rather write to a human, support@crushcert.com reaches us directly.
Keeping up with exam versions
Certification exams are revised and retired on the vendors' schedules, not ours. When an exam we cover is retired, we take it off sale rather than keep selling preparation for something you cannot book — we did exactly that with the AWS SysOps Administrator (SOA-C02) exam after AWS retired it on 29 September 2025.
If you ever find our material referring to a superseded exam version, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.