Guides contain questions that you can answer to help draft a credit request. Your answers become the raw material that you will include in your credit request. The guides are a way of making your knowledge more conscious and of extracting details that explain the knowledge you’ve gained from your experience.
Depending on the knowledge you've gained, you may decide to follow the structure of the guide for your final credit request, if there's a good match between the guide's questions and your knowledge.
Or you may use a guide to create a first draft and then finalize the draft's information as appropriate into your own, individualized credit request with sections and topics of knowledge that best reflect your learning and your strengths.