071-340 beta exam - strange results
I just received my score report for 071-340 beta exam (Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET) I took on April, 21st. It was the first time I was participating in beta exam program. It was interesting experience, but waiting for results for 2.5 month is long. I wanted to prepare for that exam, but I couldn't find any time to do it - it was very stressful and crazy time in my life, so studying for beta exams wasn't a priority. I went to the exam without a minute of preparation and came home sure that I failed it. But, to my surprise, I passed.
What is very strange (or maybe not, looking at my preparation technique ;-) ), the comments under each of exam sections say that I need to develop that skill:
It is so even if I scored “strong” in that particular field. Is this a bug, or maybe 100% strong is normalized to my highest score of all subjects, or maybe they put that “Needs Development” label always, to encourage people to develop their skills constantly? ;-)
Does anybody know?
Anyway, I'm very happy that I passed. It was a very pleasant surprise.
UPDATE: In fact, I'm using this stuff daily. So there probably was a bit of preparation, maybe only not so formal :-]
UPDATE 2: Oh,my! This is how it goes when one sorts his mail at 3 AM. As some people said in comments, it is a label - opposite to “Strong”. Now I see it and I'm embarassed :-/