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Standard chapter artifact set

  1. 01 — Guided Learning Guide — primary explanation/LEARN artifact.
  2. 02 — Exam Map and High-Yield Targets — prioritization and exam-prep map.
  3. 03 — Visual Memory Map / Diagram Set — structural and relational memory.
  4. 04 — Comparison and Battle Cards — discrimination between similar concepts.
  5. 05 — Scenario Lab — application and diagnostic reasoning.
  6. 06 — Chapter Question Bank — original exam-style practice with diagnostic metadata.
  7. 07 — Teach-Back and Blank-Page Recall — retrieval and reconstruction.
  8. 08 — Chapter Review and Error Repair — created only after real learner performance produces meaningful errors.

Not every chapter needs identical depth or every possible artifact. Avoid filler.

Core artifact rules

Guided Learning Guide

  • Read the entire DMBOK chapter before drafting.
  • Explain faithful DMBOK meaning, then plain language.
  • Use realistic examples where helpful and faithful.
  • Explain why concepts matter and how they connect.
  • Identify likely confusion/traps.
  • Preserve named frameworks, roles, activities, tools/techniques, implementation guidance, governance, and metrics.
  • Teaching questions use immediate Question → Answer → Explanation → Source resolution.

Exam Map

Organize into: - Must Know Cold - Must Understand - Must Distinguish - Must Apply - Useful Context - Low-Priority Detail

Do not claim certainty about proprietary exam questions.

Visual Memory Map / Atlas

Use visuals only when relationships are easier to understand visually. Every arrow and relationship must be source-supported. Do not invent sequence, hierarchy, causality, or ownership.

Battle Cards

For each important confusion pair, identify purpose, scope, typical owner/user, inputs/outputs, when used, common confusion, deciding distinction, contrasting scenarios, and exam-trap note.

Scenario Lab

Use progressively harder business scenarios. Every scenario question set must be followed immediately by a complete Answer/Rationale resolving every sub-question, including tempting weaker actions and changed-fact variations.

Question Bank

Four-option original MCQs spanning recognition, distinction, role, sequence, application, governance/metric, and best-answer reasoning. Every item needs a complete answer-key record and rationales for every distractor.

Teach-Back / Blank-Page Recall

Require production from memory: explain, list, sketch, classify, or reconstruct. Answers may be separated, but a complete reconstruction key is mandatory.

Error Repair

Never create generically just to fill a folder. Use actual misses, confidence errors, confusion pairs, role/sequence mistakes, misreads, elimination failures, timing problems, or lookup failures.

Cross-chapter tools in 00A-01

The governing specification also defines optional system-level tools when useful: Why-the-Others-Are-Wrong drills, Spaced Review Tracker, Mistake Autopsy Log, Weighted Mastery Dashboard, 54-Second Sprint Drills, Full Offline Exam Simulator, Cross-Domain Case Studies, CDMP Confusion Book, and a late-stage Final Rapid Review Book.

For copy/paste artifact instructions, use Artifact Prompts.

Source: 00A-01, Section 2 and Section 5.