Skills Test - FAIL!

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It sucks when you take a test on a subject you've spent the last 8 years performing professionally, only to score a 52%. On a positive note, I scored in the 97th percentile. I'm not sure how big the test taking population is, but it is pretty awesome when nearly everyone is failing your test. I felt like the test was a bunch of obscure trivia questions at best. It isn't necessary for a developer to know what CLR hosts are shipped with the .Net Framework in order to be good at their job. However, I can also see that it is necessary to create questions that are difficult to google when the test is being timed.

Because I will be able to take the test again in 2 weeks, they don't give the answers or let you know what you got wrong. But I think I have a pretty good idea.

There were some good questions, in my opinion, like "what will the following code display":

 

string text = "This is a Test";
text.Replace("T", "?");
Console.Writeline(text);

 

Followed by a list of 4 possible answers. Some questions allowed selecting multiple answers, and those were tricky mostly because the wording in some cases wasn't super clear. Anyway, it's a bit frustrating to fail a test so miserably, but knowing that my brand of suck was at the top of the pile of everything suck makes it a little easier to take.

 
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R
Perfect example of how little anyone knows about programming in general.

You should bring this along to interviews so when the HR person is moving down their checklist of buzz words of the month, you can clearly show that not knowing anything puts you 97% ahead of everyone else that doens't know anything.
Knowing buzz words was more valuable than this test. Based on the questions in the test, if I gave it to someone, and they aced it, I would be impressed, but it wouldn't guarantee a hire. It just wasn't relevant to what I do everyday.
aj
?his is a ?est

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Was this for the MCPD?
Actually, the answer is "This is a Test", because the return value of the Replace() call is not stored, so the WriteLine() is called on the original value.

It was for elance.com - where I will never make any money, because I won't work for the same rates as those overseas.
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