“Can you call a macro from an Excel formula?

[Allowed responses - 1: Yes 2: No ] [Your response - 1, correct answer - 2 ]“

What is a UDF, if not calling a macro from an Excel formula?

Also, when you provide your email addy after the 50th Q, you’ll get a full report, listing *your* answer and the *correct* answer for each of the 50 Qs, so now you can see your bloopers.

Some of the questions are still ambiguous and open to discussion, I feel.

OTOH, I won’t complain. I consider myself a relative VBA rookie, writing the odd change event and otherwise using the macro recorder and clean up what I can. Definitely not a developer, and for me a “class” is something that you take when you want to learn tap dance or ikebana, and not something I’d even dream of writing in VBA.

Still, with the current set of questions, I scored 80% correct (40 out of 50 Qs)

Happy with that.

Take, for example Dick’s intentionally ambiguous question. He says, “A casual observer might think there’s no wrong answer and that the test is unfair.” The implication is that one of the three options is in fact no way at all to monitor a range variable’s address at all. If so, this option must be discounted as a candidate answer. Therefore, I must choose subjectively between two valid answers. Therefore, I think the question is unfair but due to admitted over-analysis rather than casual observation

A fair question IMO would ask something more like, “Which of the following would not reveal…”

I took the test (hgaven’t yet received the results) and was asked about the approximate number of lines before a VBA sub procedure can generally be considered to too large. Obviously, there’s a lack of objectiveity in that one but I was asked two questions pertaining to the Personal workbook, a concept I vaguely recall from a decade ago, never but had anything to do with. Absolutely no questions about the Implements keyword in VBA, which tends to ‘sort the men from the boys’ in my experience. In other words, not only are individual questions subjective but the features chosen to question on are likely to reveal the test’s author personal biases.

Agree that there are questions on there which are poorly worded and which (if someone was to ask me f2f) I’d prefer to answer with ‘it depends’.

For example

“You write a macro in a particular workbook. Can you specify that the macro runs automatically whenever the workbook is opened? “

[Allowed responses - 1: Yes 2: No ] [Your response - 2, correct answer - 1 ]

That’s weird, because the last few spreadsheets I’ve written I had to include a nag screen to ensure the user enabled macros. If you create a workbook with the assumption that the Workbook_Open event will always trigger, you’re instantly stuffed when the user has Security set to high, or Disables macros on Medium.

Can’t say I was impressed by the keyboard shortcut questions either; I develop spreadsheets for other people’s use, so I go big friendly Active X button controls all the way. Haven’t used a keyboard shortcut in… well, ever. Given the minimal cost of getting a keyboard shortcut wrong (“Alt-R doesn’t work. Okay, I need to find another key combination…”) I’m sure they could have devoted a question of two to rounding, or datatype conversions, or other areas which will cause potentially more serious but less obvious errors.

In short, not a hugely bad test but could be a lot better with bit more effort and polish.

[Allowed responses - 1: Yes 2: No ] [Your response - 1, correct answer - 2 ]” Obviously, a function used as a UDF cannot change the cell colour, but when calling it from a macro, then it can indeed change the colour. I’d say of the 8 I missed, 4 could be argued effectively. The writer of this test definitely has his ideas on how code should be written but does not have a good grasp on writing questions that accurately assess the users skill. I’d love to see him post the reasons for his answers.