Date: 07/20/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: xml, web

I apologize in advance is this isn't allowed here...not real sure where to post about it, and if you can think of somewhere better, please let me know.

This is related to Office 2003, more specifically Excel, and even more specifically, the certification test at Expert level provided by Certiport.

I took the exam today, and found errors. Two of them that I'm sure of. The exam administrator went back and saw that they were there.

The errors were like this:

The first one was basicialy "Use the data in these cells and create a list". Okay, I know how to do that. Highlight the cells/columns whatever, and go up to Data, List, Create List. Problem here was....there was no List option under Data. I hope I'm not being too vague.

The second problem I ran into involved XML. I was asked to import XML maps and map XML fields to certain cells, yadda yadda. Went up to Data again in the menu, and there was no XML option. At a loss again as to what to do. Task pane didn't work. I had no idea what to do.

The test administrator called Certiport, and Certiport basically told him, "Yeah those are some of our hardest questions so obviously you read them wrong or there's another way to go about answering the problem."

Uh...yeah. We were told to file a complaint on their web site, which of course, we'll do. We paid $75 for the test.

I should mention that my boyfriend is a Master Instructor for Office....he's at a loss, too.

I guess my questions are these...

• Has anyone here taken this exam or had a problem like this with any other MS cert exam?
  
• In either of the situations I laid out up there, do you know of a way to perform either of those tasks in a way other than the standard menu way? Again, I hope I'm not being too vage.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/729441.html