Theoretically, Is there a way to find answers to an exam within a online JavaScript course by using the developer tools?

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One of my buddies found a script that lets you automatically complete certain courses that we are to take. I know very little of Java but I have some knowledge of HTML so navigating throughout the console isn't too difficult.

But I wanted to know if there is a way that -one could enter a course exam and locate the questions and answers for that exam by using the code that the exam is written with.-
Regardless, I keep telling him that the time that it takes to do the exam is probably less than what he has spent searching for the information. I just thought it'd be cool to ask!
Anywho, any insight is appreciated. Thank ya'll in advance!

husoski · Accepted Answer

If the developers are any good, and if the app cares if whether you cheat or not, then probably not.  The questions and answers will be in a database that you can't access and the code that checks a response for being correct will be in server-side code that you can't see.

If someone's produced a script to automate the session, then that means the developers either didn't care about someone cheating.  You might be able to do something with developer tools in the browser, like GreaseMonkey on Firefox.

Some of the "high stakes" online exams, though, take extra steps to ensure that even the client side is locked down.  They only work with a well-known browser with add-on tools (such as GreaseMonkey) disabled.  Doesn't sound like that's what you're looking at, though, if there's a downloadable exploit somewhere.

By the way, your Java skills wont help much, since the client ("browser") side of a web application is scripted in JavaScript, not Java.  Stealing a phrase from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, JavaScript is almost but not quite completely unlike Java.

Theoretically, Is there a way to find answers to an exam within a online JavaScript course by using the developer tools?

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