MOS Exam: Is shortcut key and access key disabled?

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Edmund Seet

Pls allow me to rephrase my question.

During MOS Excel Exam, is it possible to
activate ...say.... AutoFilter through keystoke(access
key) by pressing ALT + D + F + F? Or Sort through ALT + D
+ S. Or perhaps delete a column by pre-selecting the
column then press ALT + "-" ? Or the only way to activate
them is through the mouse click ?

I'm very slow with the mouse now as I'm too inclined to
key combination. If the mouse is the only way, then I know
I have homework to do before attempting any exams.

TIA
Edmund Seet
 
I don't really know the answer, but it seems to me if certain ways of
doing things are disabled, the test is no longer testing your abilities.

- Jon
 
Thanks Jon. U rationale was right.

I went further to get confirmation. Certiport Solutions
Customer Services replied this:

(....snippet extracted from email)
The Microsoft Office Specialist exams are "live" exams;
you use the actual application to answer questions on the
exam. Therefore if the keystroke combination works in
Office it will work when taking the exam. For more
information, please refer to the following link:
http://www.certiport.com/yourPersonalPath/training/testTaki
ngTips.asp

Hope this post will benefit other exam goers too.

Edmund Seet
 
I'm writing to appologize to everybody as I "may" have
posted a wrong/misleading finding on my earlier chain
under this same subject.

What Certiport had advised seem not entirely right (the
email snippet which can be found at the bottm of this
posting). I'm yet to receive any re-confirmation from
Certiport.

I'd attempted an MOS Excel exam in mid Sep & witnessed
that "Accessing menu using keyboard keystrokes
combination" is disabled during the exam. I don't know why
but its definitely not possible to execute,for example,
AutoFilter command by ALT + D + F + F or perhaps execute
Save As Web Page command by pressing ALT + F + G,...etc.
ALT key combo...... during the exam.

Curious of this handicap, I then went to a bookstore and
checked on book name Microsoft Inside Out Excel XP. But
this seem to be a standard Excel feature listed in
Chapter#2 (Chapter Title : Running Excel) on Page 26 & 27
under subtitle "Accessing menu using keyboard". I then
emailed to Certiport enquiring to why is this ALT key
combo feature is disabled, but have yet receive any
response eversince. I'm just trying to find out if it was
my testing centre's PC having problem or that this feature
is really disabled during the exam. Unfortunately, my exam
centre can't confirm if ALT key combo is supposed to be
available or unavaliable in the exam environment.

For all u MOS exam goers, if any of u had been able to
execute command by ALT + alphabet key combo, pls share
your experiance by responding to this posting.

In my oppinion, if ALT key combo is really disabled, then
it's not entirely true that MOS exam is "live exam using
actual application". I fully understand that F1 Help is
disabled as I have read this declaration from their web.
But I wonder what other standard features could have been
disabled during the exam, which have not been listed in
the web.

Hopefully, Certiport will come back to me with some advise
soon.

//Edmund Seet
 
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