CLASH OF QE’s – War Book

CLASH OF QE’s: Code War Section

Once you login to QA2QE E-Box platform and navigate to the home page, you will find a section titled “CLASH OF QE’s”, to the right
of Summary section. This is referred to as ‘Code War’ section. The war diary will provide a snapshot of the next 3 code wars that you
need to complete in your QA2QE journey. This section will also enable a link to Cognizant LMS, for you to enroll into a skill war (once
you become eligible/ ready to take the skill war). This is because skill cars can only be attempted via Cognizant VDI infra.

Click ‘Enter War Zone’ to get into the battlefield.

There are 2 types of wars to be fought in this journey - Knowledge War and Skill War.
Knowledge War: In Knowledge War, your opponent will be a Multiple Choice Question paper. You have to identify the correct
option(s) for each question.
 You will have only 3 attempts to win the Knowledge war.
 You will need to take 7 days break (cooling period) between each attempt.
 Your winning score will be 70%
 You can wage the knowledge war anywhere anytime from within the E-Box platform

Skill War: In Skill War, you will have to solve a problem/ case study.
 You will have only 3 attempts to win the Skill war.
 You will need to take 14 days break (cooling period) between each attempt.
 Your winning score will be 60%
 You can wage the skill war only from a Cognizant Virtual Desk Infra (VDI) environment. You need to first enroll for the war, block a
VDI and then fight it out
 Clicking on the appropriate links against ‘Skill code war’ will take you to Cognizant LMS system for enrollment into the code war.
Only when you submit an enrollment, your request will be processed and you will be allocated a VDI for taking the code war

CLASH OF QE’s: War Zone

The ‘War Zone’ page, as you see below is divided into two sections.
 On the left side, you will see a vast land area divided into several territories.
 On the right side, you will see the list of all code wars (Knowledge/ Skill) that you need to complete as part of the cluster you are
nominated to.
e.g. In the screenshot below, the associate is part of “Complete Technical (Java)”. Hence the skills included in the war zone are
Oracle, Core Java & JDBC, JUnit, JavaScript, Servlet & JSP, Spring MVC and Subversion.

Sequencing of War(s)
1. When you log into the platform, you will have only the knowledge war of the first skill in ‘You are ready for the war’ status. You
can see in the above picture that ‘Oracle Knowledge War’ is ‘war ready’ while the subsequent wars are in ‘Not yet war ready’
status.
2. If you want to, you can take the knowledge war of the first skill (e.g. Oracle) straight away. There are no strings (pre-requisites)
attached to the knowledge war of the first skill. For taking skill war of any skill (e.g. Oracle), you should have completed
o Knowledge war of that skill
o Mandatory Learn to Code and Code Challenge problems of that skill
3. For taking wars of subsequent skills, skill war of the previous skill should have been completed. E.g. in this case, you can take
Core Java & JDBC Knowledge War or Core Java & JUnit skill war only if you have completed Oracle skill war

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 You will have to win both Knowledge war and Skill war for successful acquisition of a skill.
o If a skill has only knowledge war tagged to it, you need to complete the Knowledge war only.

 You can win up to a maximum of 200 gold coins (based on your score) in a Knowledge war.
o You will not earn any gold coins if you don’t clear the Knowledge war i.e. if your score is less than 70%
o If you have scored 70% and above, you will earn an equivalent proportion of gold coins, based on the score. i.e. if your
score is 80%, you will earn 160 gold coins, if your score is 95%, you will earn 190 gold coins and so on

 You can win up to a maximum of 500 gold coins (based on your score) plus a territory in a Skill war.
o You will not earn any gold coins if you don’t clear the Skill war i.e. if your score is less than 60%
o If you have scored 60% and above, you will earn an equivalent proportion of gold coins, based on the score. i.e. if your
score is 80%, you will earn 400 gold coins, if your score is 95%, you will earn 475 gold coins and so on

 You will start playing the war with title as ‘Soldier’ and can move up the title ladder as shown below
‘Soldier’ -> ‘Legion’ -> ‘Centurion’ -> ‘Knights’ -> ‘Supreme Commander’

 Criteria for the title movement is based on the % of gold coins you have earned as against the total # of gold coins available to
be won as per your learning plan
Role/ Title Criteria
Soldier >= 0 gold coin % < 45%
Legion >= 45 gold coin % < 60%
Centurion >= 60 gold coin % < 75%
Knight >= 75 gold coin % < 90%
Supreme Commander >= 90 gold coin % <100%

 You will see that status of the war(s) which are ready to be fought are mentioned as “In War” e.g. Oracle Knowledge War. This
means you can start the war. Click on “In war”. You will see the ‘Activities’ screen. Click on it to start the Knowledge War.

 Once you have completed a skill war successfully, the war will be marked as ‘Won’ and in the map, the territory will also be
marked as ‘Won’.

 You can take the knowledge wars from within E-Box platform itself. You don’t need to enroll for any Cognizant infra to
participate in Knowledge wars

 You cannot directly take a skill war. You need to first enroll for a skill war by clicking on the Enrollment links available in the
‘Home Page’. When you click on the enrollment links, it takes you to the enrollment screen in Cognizant LMS. Upon enrolling for
the Skill war in Cognizant LMS, you will receive an email with detailed instructions. On the scheduled date & time of code war,
you need to log into Cognizant VDI infra (https://vdiassessment.cognizant.com) and access E-Box from within the VDI infra to
complete the skill war

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