Quiz: Introduction to DITA

This quiz assesses understanding of the fundamental concepts introduced in Part I: Introduction to DITA.

1. What is the primary goal of structured authoring?

  • a) Add more images to documents
  • b) Enable consistent, reusable, and scalable content creation
  • c) Use fewer tools
  • d) None of the above

2. Which of the following is NOT a core principle of DITA?

  • a) Topic-based authoring
  • b) Separation of content and format
  • c) Conditional publishing
  • d) Proprietary format

3. How does DITA support multi-channel publishing?

  • a) It restricts output to PDF only
  • b) By embedding fonts
  • c) By separating content from presentation
  • d) By using Markdown

4. Which business challenge does DITA's content reuse capability primarily solve?

  • a) Poor search engine optimization
  • b) Duplicate content maintenance across multiple documents
  • c) Lack of version control
  • d) Inadequate user interface design

5. When should an organization typically choose DITA over simpler markup formats like Markdown?

  • a) When they have only one publication target
  • b) When their content is primarily narrative rather than procedural
  • c) When they need advanced content reuse, conditional publishing, or professional multi-format output
  • d) When they want to minimize their toolchain complexity