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Hi all experts,
    I am looking forward to find the exams for measuring Visual Basic 6 Knowledge. Does anyone have the exam to measure such knowledge ? I would like to test to recruit the new staffs for working in the company. It would be good if the exams are including many Visual Basic 6 knowledge level from beginning to intermediate.
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                                                              Meng
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Hi!

And I disagree with VIkasumit.    (That is, if I understood you properly)

To be sure of someones programming skill, you have to see them programm. You have to give them an assigment and see how well they'll do it.
After they finish souch programm, or after some given time you can see everything:
 - do they know the basic syntax
 - are tey organized (keep their code clean and readable)
 - are they looking for the simplest or the best sollution
 - do they know how to use documentation
 - how long it took them to write something
 - generally, how experienced they are
 - etc.

If you just ask them general questions, you don't know anything from above.
What do you get if you ask them:    What is a Class?        They could talk about it for hours, but this doesn't mean that they know how to use classes.
If you ask them some specific question: What is Microsoft Outline Control used for?
They might not know it, but maybe they could learn it in 5 minutes, becose they have enough background experience.

I know few people who went to C/C++ programming class with me, who knew everything theoreticaly, they knew all definitions, and how basic algorythms from the book worked.
On theoretical part, they were the best, but when they had to write some program, they "hanged", becouse they didn't know even where to begin.
They just didn't have enough experience, even though they knew all definitions and all theory behind it.

I'd also hate if someone would ask me how to create network application.
I'd much more like them to give me two PC's with VB installed, and let me write the program to show them how I'd do it.
I started working as a document scanner operator, and my boss found out that I know programming (he was also a programmer a while back), and we talked about it a little but he didn't took me very seriously
at first. But few months later he saw that I created few simple applications which made few boring office tasks much faster, and he started giving me more and more demanding projects.
After some time I became a programmer.

My point is that even when he knew I can programm, he didn't "belive" it untill he saw some results.
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Hi hes,
    I don't understand your link. Is it related to Visual Basic Exam ? I didn't see anything related to what I want.
                                                                       Thanks,
                                                                         Meng
Yes,
One of the assesment tests is in Visual Basic. It is very comprehensive, covering from basic syntax to  what will be the output of this block of code.