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# Creating and managing tasks (HITs)
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 This section contains information about how to create tasks (HITs) in Amazon Mechanical Turk. This includes the components of a task, how to create a task, and how to modify an existing task.

To learn how to retrieve HIT status and worker results, see [Retrieving HIT status](RetrievingHitStatus.md) and [Retrieving results](RetrievingResults.md) respectively. 

**Topics**
+ [Define questions](mturk-hits-defining-questions.md)
+ [HIT attributes](mturk-hits-attributes.md)
+ [Creating HITs](mturk-creating-hits.md)
+ [Modifying HITs](mturk-modifying-hits.md)
+ [Using the sandbox](mturk-use-sandbox.md)
+ [HIT references using `RequesterAnnotation`](HITReferences.md)