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Summary of the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) test

This Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) test evaluates candidates’ technical knowledge of VBA and their ability to apply it in real situations. This VBA test focuses on core VBA skills as well as using VBA with Microsoft Excel.

Covered skills

  • Coding for VBA

  • Visual UserForms

  • VBA for Excel

  • Sourcing data

Use the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) test to hire

Programmers, data analysts, automation specialists, Excel experts, and anyone else who uses VBA.

Type

Programming skills

Time

10 min

Languages

English

Level

Intermediate
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About the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) test

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an event-driven programming language built into Microsoft Office applications. If you work with data in Microsoft Office, an expert VBA programmer can help you manage your data exactly the way you need it.

A hallmark of a good VBA practitioner is being able to create your own tools and functions to satisfy various requirements and business needs. This Visual Basic for Applications test uses real-world scenarios to gauge practical and applied VBA skills.

This VBA test focuses on core VBA skills, including using intermediate coding, applying visual UserForms, working with data from varying sources, and using VBA with Microsoft Excel, one of the most popular applications of VBA.

VBA is useful for a variety of business sectors, and developing the right tools may save your company hundreds of hours, as VBA enables repetitive tasks to be replaced with scripts, forms, functions, and procedures. VBA can help you save time and money by implementing efficient coding, managing data inside Excel sheets, connecting with SQL databases, and reading HTML and visual creations. This VBA skills test will evaluate the important skills a candidate needs to be a versatile intermediate developer.

Candidates who perform well on this VBA skills test have a strong grasp of VBA and practical experience using its programming resources and framework.

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The test is made by a subject-matter expert

Alejandro W.

A certified Microsoft Data Analyst Associate with over eight years of experience as a business intelligence developer, Alejandro knows data like the back of his hand. His extensive repertoire of data analytics tools includes Tableau, Qlik Sense, Qlikview, Power BI, SQL, and Python. Alejandro has applied his powerful data skills for clients and employers ranging from large international banks and multinational telecommunications companies to oil and gas giants.

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