Sample Question From 70-315 Exam
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70-315 is an exam toward earning the Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) status. Here’s a question I found in a sample test by Exam Cram:
You have designed an ASP.NET Web form that displays inventory information. When a product falls below the reorder level, you need to highlight the product information in a table so that it stands out to the user. Which method of highlighting is most accessible?
<B><BGCOLOR><BLINK><MARQUEE>
So which is it: “stands out” or “accessible”? Hmm… I wonder how many of these questions appear in real tests.
11 comments
Milan Negovan
on March 31, 2005
No, absolutely serious.
Michael Ritchie
on March 31, 2005
This is the reason the MCP development certifications carry little weight in the development community.
Karl Phillips
on April 12, 2005
Hmmm,
Interesting. I used to wonder why some seemingly brilliant people fail some exams!
C
on April 27, 2005
Hmmm. Perhaps I've seen too many of these questions, because it makes sense to me. All of these methods make text stand out but only one is accessible (ie viewed through LYNX et al.) Or is everyone just "ewe-ing" because this is so easy?
David van Leerdam
on February 21, 2006
It's fairly simple though, I think. It should be both accessible and 'outstanding'. Since marquee and blink are not accessible at all (instead they're the opposite of accessible), Bold is left as the only correct answer.
marie leno
on February 22, 2006
hmm i wonder how many of these questions do come on the test
sunny
on December 27, 2007
i will definetly go for marquee because it moves man!!!
Azra
on July 14, 2008
according to my view its a very simple question definetly itr is bold.
Vito Danelli
on October 11, 2008
The best and most realistic practice exams are from Transcender. When I was purusing Windows 2000 certifications, the practice questions on Transcender were practically identical to the real test questions.
I think Transcender somehow "partners" with a testing center and they somehow do screen-shots of the actual questions, then make minor revisions for their practice questions.
It seem other practice exam packages other than Transcender aren't worth a damn.
Nick
on January 7, 2010
The reason why this question is absurd is because any good web developers knows you don't mix content with style.
Adding any of the cues will violate the separation of content specified by w3c standards.
The answer is this should either be handled by the css or in run time.
No style cues should ever be in the page itself.
So this question is absurd,
Anonymous Coward
on March 31, 2005
You're kidding, right?