Drill 02 — Multiple-response items (the v1.0 format change)

⚠️ Read this first — superseded 2026-08-27. The authoritative exam guide from the official registration page states: "Multiple choice; one correct answer and three incorrect options." A sitter who passed on 2026-08-24 confirms it ("1 з 4 відповідей правильна"). The v1.0 PDF that prompted this drill was the outlier. There are no multiple-response items to prepare for.

Keep using this drill for one reason only: it trains the true-but-not-an-answer discrimination that single-answer distractors also rely on. Ignore the format framing below.

Why this drill exists. Guide v0.1 said "All questions on the exam are multiple choice format. Each question has one correct response and three incorrect responses… Select the single response." Guide v1.0 changed it to "Multiple-choice and multiple-response items; each item states how many responses to select." Every drill in this workspace — and, on the evidence, every third-party question bank — is single-answer. This is the gap.

0 · How the format works, and how it bites

The item tells you how many to select. That is not decoration — it's a checksum. If you're confident about three options and the item says pick two, you have misread one of them. Resolve that before you answer, don't just drop your weakest pick.

Work by elimination, then confirm the count. Single-answer items reward finding the best option. Multiple-response items reward ruling options out — then verifying you hold exactly N.

Partial credit: unknown. The v1.0 guide specifies the item format but says nothing about how multiple-response items are scored — §10 covers only scaled scoring and the 720 cut. I am not going to guess. This drill scores all-or-nothing because that's the conservative assumption: it trains you to treat a 3-of-5 item as three chances to lose one point, which is the right instinct whether or not partial credit exists. Treat this as UNVERIFIED — if you learn the real rule on exam day, tell me.

The trap this format is built for

In a single-answer item, distractors are wrong. In a multiple-response item, the strongest distractor is a statement that is perfectly true but doesn't answer the question asked. Four true statements, pick the two that are true about the thing being asked.

Tactic: re-read the stem after you've chosen. Not "is this true?" but "is this an answer to this question?" That single re-read is what this drill is training.

Note: options are shuffled on every load, so position carries no information. Reload to re-drill.

The drill

Primary source

Every item is built from exam guide v1.0 (guides/) — Task Statements 1.1, 1.3, 1.7, 2.2, 2.5, 3.2, 3.6, 4.1, 4.3, 4.5 and the Appendix In-Scope / Out-of-Scope lists. Format quotation from §3 (Exam Details at a Glance). Two facts are docs-verified rather than guide-stated and are flagged inline: Glob's .gitignore behaviour and Edit's lack of a regex mode (tools reference).