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And with Answers inside our books, audiobooks, courses, and videos, you can also ask questions to deepen your understanding while you learn. This feature is currently available in English only.

O’Reilly assignments are a great way for enterprise accounts to ensure team members are on top of the technologies that drive business forward, and can help get new hires up to speed fast.

Just give the details of an assignment for context, add the content you want your team to review, and assign it to individual members. It’s easy to edit assignments at any time, and you can follow the progress for each assignee to know who’s on track and who could use a nudge.

Taking an actual test is the most helpful way to study for a certification exam. With interactive, customizable practice tests on O’Reilly, you can track your performance on a module-by-module basis to get immediate feedback that helps you focus on areas for improvement.

Each test offers three modes designed to help you prepare:

• Guided Practice Test: Works as a study guide to evaluate your knowledge. There are answers and full explanations for each question, and you can take the test untimed, so you can study at your own pace.
• Flash Card Practice: Provides the questions without multiple choice answers for a true test of your mastery.
• Exam Simulation: Gives you the chance to experience a timed practice test that mirrors the real thing.

Digital badges are a visual symbol of a learner’s accomplishments. O’Reilly’s badges, issued through our partner Credly, are shareable and contain a verifiable set of metadata about achievements that are in accordance with the Open Badges 2.0 standard.

How do I earn a badge?

• AI Academy badge: Learners must complete all of the required pieces within an AI Academy track.

• Course completion badge: O’Reilly live and on-demand courses are eligible. Learners must complete 80% or more of the provided course content, and courses that include a final quiz require a score of 70% or higher.

  Important: If you purchased a live course individually (without an O’Reilly subscription), you have 30 days after the live event ends to complete the course and claim your badge. After 30 days, your access expires and you won’t be able to claim the badge.

What is Credly?

We’ve partnered with Credly to provide an end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Learn more about Credly here.

Can I earn a badge during my free trial?

You can’t earn a badge during your free trial. However, all course progress you made will be saved. If you purchase a membership after your trial period, you can claim badges for any courses you completed during your trial.

How will I know if I’ve earned a badge?

When you’ve met the completion criteria you’ll see a notification directly in the course you’ve completed or on your profile page. O’Reilly will also provide an email notification with instructions for accepting your badge.

How do I view all the badges I’ve earned?

Head to your profile page, where they’re listed under Your badges.

Is there a certificate of completion too?

Yes, each issued badge has a complementary certificate of completion. Clicking on the View badge button (on your profile page) will bring you to the badge page on Credly, where you’ll see the certificate listed under Share > Publish > Download Certificate.

What are the best ways to share my badges?

Depending on your immediate professional and career goals, there are a variety of steps you’ll likely want to take. For ideas and how-to steps, head here.

How can I add my badge to my LinkedIn profile and share to my feed?

It’s easy. Just follow the suggested steps here.

I have a question about Credly. Where can I find support?

You can find tutorials and answers to additional questions here.

As you read a book, you can highlight important text and take notes to refer back to later. In the Highlights tool bar, you can select different colors to categorize your highlights and notes, copy the selected text, and share a link to the selected text with your colleagues. When you highlight a term or short phrase, you can click Explain this concept to get an instant explanation sourced from content on O’Reilly.

To see all of your highlights, click the user icon (desktop) or the menu icon (mobile) and select Highlights from the dropdown menu. And to see your highlights within a book, open the table of contents in the reader and click Highlights in the right panel.

Hands-on learning is the fastest way to truly grasp a new tool or technology. With our interactive content, you can access both expert-guided and unstructured live coding environments to practice Kubernetes, Python, Docker, Java, Linux, SQL, and more. There’s nothing to set up to get started—just write and run code as you learn, right in your browser.

• Labs guide you through how a technology works within a live dev environment so you can recognize how to solve issues you might encounter in the real world.
• Cloud labs are available within teams and enterprise accounts and provide step-by-step expert guidance within a real cloud platform account.
• Sandboxes offer a secured configured environment to start playing around with and exploring technologies. It’s great for experimenting and trying samples.

Build your own playlists to keep content organized, and make them public to share with coworkers or all O’Reilly members. You can create playlists yourself or automatically generate playlists from a prompt—just click New + on the Playlists page. Your playlists can be updated at any time, from anywhere in the learning platform.

And check out other shared playlists—from collections your colleagues have put together to expert playlists of content chosen by leading innovators. You can follow expert playlists to save them to your Playlists page and get notified when they’re updated with new content.

Playlists you’ve created or followed auto-sync with the mobile app—so you’ll always have the content you want at your fingertips. Just remember to keep your app up-to-date to ensure you’re always seeing the latest playlists experience.

Your profile page is your personalized learning hub, with quick access to your recommendations, history, playlists, live events, and more. You can easily access it by clicking the user icon (desktop) or the menu icon (mobile).

Personalized recommendations are based on the content you’ve read, watched, or listened to. The more you explore, the better we get at making customized recommendations on your home page and profile page.

You can also find recommendations on book detail pages and on live event registration pages after you’ve registered for the event.

Search by title, author, publisher, or keyword—and filter your results by format, topic, publisher, and/or rating. From there you can sort by relevance, date added, or publication date.

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• Put terms in double quotes (“”)—the terms have to be matched in sequence to return results.
• Use AND, OR, and NOT. The query john OR jon matches documents containing either of the two names. The query java NOT javascript matches documents containing java and not containing javascript.
• Use parentheses ( ) to group terms.
• Prefix your search with a field followed by a colon (:) to restrict your search to that field:
  • author:C matches authors having the initial “C” in their names (but not books about C).
  • author:“John Smith” matches authors named “John Smith” unless they have a middle name.
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  • title:“chicken soup code” matches books with those three words in sequence such as The Chicken Soup Code Manual.
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