Hey,

I just took a trial exam for a microsoft certification test (don't really know which type it was), for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 for C#.

I noticed that they tend to concentrate on asking what properties are called etc for some types of questions. Why does it matter so much that you know that?
For example, I got a question 'What is the property called that allows drag and drop operations?'. Hardly ever using drag drop, I answered AllowDragDrop (I was confident it was something like that). The answer was wrong as it should have been AllowDrop... Who cares? Isn't the important bit that I need to know how to use it? Is the name that important? I can just look it up if I need it.

I know using the correct terminology is important, but I don't see how it's important to test this for a certification. That way you could learn the property names off by heart and (with a bit of experience in .NET programming) you can easily pass it... Or are they not supposed to be very hard?

Perhaps this is only on the trial tests? Or I took a very easy exam (I'm not really serious in taking one, just wanted to see what it was all about)..? There were a few questions on implementation but the majority seemed to ask the name of a property or attribute.

Anyone else noticed this?