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title: "How Can I Create A Multiple Choice Performance Based Exam Lab?"
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# How Can I Create A Multiple Choice Performance Based Exam Lab?

You can now create a lab which is a Performance-Based Testing exam. This gives you the ability to set multiple choice questions alongside Virtual Machines that the student can use to determine the answers.

- Questions can all be on one page or grouped on different pages.
- Users will access and launch the exam lab the same way as a regular lab.
- When they have finished the exam, they will close it and select whether to submit it for grading.
- The grading is fully automated. Results are tracked and displayed in the Lab instance details page as well as within the lab instance search results; this also provides export options.

Setting up a lab as an exam is straightforward.

1. On the **Site Administration** page, on the **Exams** tile, select **Create Exam**. This will open the Create Exam page. This page is identical to the Lab Profile Edit page except on the Exam tab, the ?Is Exam? checkbox is automatically checked. This marks the lab as being an exam.
2. Complete the Lab Profile as normal.
3. Then on the **Exam** tab, in the **Scoring Type** dropdown, select **Automated**
4. In the **Passing Score** field, set the score.
5. Select **Add Page**.
6. Enter a name for the page in the **Page 1** field.

To add your questions, do the following:

1. Select **Add Question**.
2. In **Add Question** dialog box, in the **Text** field, enter the question.
3. In the **Format** dropdown, select either **Multiple Choice, Only One Answer** or Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers.
4. Select **Add Answer**.
5. Enter the first answer.
6. Select **Add Answer** again and complete for each possible answer to the question.
  1. Rearrange the answers, as needed, by selecting the **Up** or **Down** arrows to the right of the answers.
  2. Use the **X** to delete an answer.
7. Designate which answers are correct by checking the radio button or the boxes for the correct answer(s).
8. Complete the optional fields if wanted:
  1. **Explanation** - Enter an explanation for the question
  2. **Reference URL** - Enter an URL link.
9. Select OK to finish adding the question.

To add other questions on the same page, select **Add Question** and repeat process. To add another page of questions, select **Add Page** and repeat above process. When you have finished adding the exam questions and answers, select Save.

This is the first exam type to be released. Additional exam types and features will be available in the future.

Performance-based testing is a challenge-centric, scored lab used for skills validation. It uses activities, such as Activity Based Assessments (ABA), that have scoring turned on. Questions and Automated Activities are used to validate a Learners' practical skills through the completion of technical tasks, and the results are generated at the end of a lab.

A virtual machine is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer.

A lab instance is the individual occurrence of a lab profile launch. Each lab instance is unique for each lab launch, and all details related to the lab launch are displayed on the lab instance.