Types of Exam Questions

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In an effort to both refine the testing process and protect the quality of its certifications, Microsoft has focused its exams on real experience and hands-on proficiency. There is a greater emphasis on your past working environments and responsibilities and less emphasis on how well you can memorize. In fact, Microsoft says a certification candidate should have at least a year’s worth of hands-on experience.

Microsoft will regularly add and remove questions from the exams. This is called item seeding. It is part of the effort to make it more difficult for individuals to merely memorize exam questions that were passed along by previous test-takers.

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Microsoft will accomplish its goal of protecting the exams’ integrity by regularly adding and removing exam questions, limiting the number of questions that any individual sees in a beta exam, and adding new exam elements.

Exam questions may be in a variety of formats: Depending on which exam you take, you’ll see multiple-choice questions as well as select-and-place and prioritize-a-list questions. Simulations and Case Study–based formats are included as well. Let’s take a look at the types of exam questions and examine the adaptive testing technique so you’ll be prepared for all of the possibilities.

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For more information on the various exam question types, go to www.microsoft.com/traincert/mcpexams/policies/innovations.asp.

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