Pluralsight Skills updates our skill assessments on a regular basis. We retire, replace, or version assessments based on certain criteria.
Skill IQ replacement and retirement
We retire an assessment in one of two ways:
- Replacing the assessment with a new version
- Ending the assessment in its entirety
Based on these options, if you take an assessment and it's later retired, your Skill IQ could be affected.
If an assessment is replaced with a new version, you'll need to take the assessment to receive a new Skill IQ. Open the Skill IQ in either your Profile (opens in new tab) or on the Skill IQ page (opens in new tab) to access the new version of the assessment.
If an assessment is retired and is not replaced, you'll continue to see your score in your Profile and your Skill IQ level will still appear in certain analytics. You'll also receive an on-screen message that states the assessment has retired.
Assessments in beta
We version an assessment when questions need to be updated. It will move back into beta and remain there until the assessment gets updated. The validation period between assessments can vary, depending on the number of learners who take the assessment while it's in beta. You'll need to retake the assessment once it is out of beta to receive a new Skill IQ. Assessments in beta don’t provide a Skill IQ score or level.
Replaced and retired Skill IQ assessments
Assessments with replacements
Below is a current list of retired assessments with their replacements. Some assessments have a 1:1 replacement, while others have been replaced by a single assessment covering multiple topics.
| Retired Assessment | Replacement Assessment |
|---|---|
| Angular | Building Web Applications with Angular |
| Application Development on Microsoft Azure | Application Development on Microsoft Azure |
| Bootstrap | Styling the Web with Bootstrap |
| C++ | C++ Language Fundamentals and Best Practices |
| C Development Fundamentals | C Development Fundamentals |
| Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing Fundamentals |
| Continuous Delivery and DevOps with Azure DevOps | Continuous Delivery on Azure for DevOps Engineers |
| Data Integration with Microsoft SSIS | Data Integration with Microsoft SSIS |
| Data Structures in R | Programming Data Structures in R |
| Django | Building Web Applications with Django |
| Docker | Managing Docker in Production |
| Elastic Stack Security Fundamentals | Elastic Stack Fundamentals |
| Ethical Hacking | Ethical Hacking |
|
Excel |
| Flask | Building Web Applications with Flask |
| Flutter | Build Mobile Web Applications with Flutter |
| GitHub | Collaborative Coding With GitHub |
| Go | Go Core Language |
| Google Cloud Architect | Architecting with Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure |
|
HTML/CSS |
|
Incident Response |
| Java | Java Fundamentals |
| JavaScript | JavaScript Core Language |
| jQuery | Building Dynamic Websites with jQuery |
|
Developing Android Applications with Kotlin |
| Malware Analysis | Malware Analysis |
| Microsoft Excel Data Manipulation, Presentation, and Analysis | Microsoft Excel for Data Analysts |
| PHP | PHP Development Fundamentals |
| Practicing Agile | Agile Project Management |
| Puppet | Configuration Management Using Puppet |
| Python | Python Core Language |
| Querying Data with SQL from PostgreSQL | Querying Data with SQL from PostgreSQL |
| React | Building Web Applications with React |
| Security Event Triage | Security Event Triage |
| Security Fundamentals | Security Foundations |
| Server Maintenance Fundamentals | Server Maintenance Fundamentals |
| Typescript | Typescript Core Language |
| Understanding DevOps | DevOps Foundations |
| Vue | Building Web Apps with Vue |
| Web Accessibility | Developing Websites for Accessibility |
| Working with Node.js | Node.js |
| Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) | Zero Trust Security (ZTS) |
Assessments without replacements
Below is a list of retired assessments with no replacements:
- Cleaning Data with R
- Creating and Using R Functions
- Data Visualization with R
- Data Wrangling with R
- Exploratory Data Analysis with R
- Importing Data with R
- Interpreting Data with R
- JSON