diff --git a/EXERCISES.md b/EXERCISES.md
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+++ b/EXERCISES.md
@@ -8,4 +8,16 @@ Connect to your running HBase via **hubris**.
     Hbase UBer Interactive Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' to see available commands or 'exit<RETURN>' to quit.
     hubris>
 
+Type help and then <RETURN> to see a listing of shell commands and options. Browse at least the paragraphs at
+the end of the help emission for the gist of how variables and command arguments are entered into the HBase shell;
+in particular note how table names, rows, and columns, etc., must be quoted.
+
+Create a table named test with a single column family named cf. Verify its creation by listing all tables and then
+insert some values.
+
+    hubris> create 'test', 'cf'
+	true
+	hubris> list-table 'test'
+	..
+
 _TODO_