[SalesForce] Certification Exam Maintenence Fees

My original answer was incorrect.

As Jesse points out below, "There are only two different types of maintenance exams." i.e. one for developers and one for admins.

I reopened the record and it's still has the 6 digits, the only different is that instead of 123,456 it's now 123456 (no comma).

The reason is that when you truncate a field on type conversion, the underlying data isn't updated until each record is saved. If you inline-edit the record and save without shortening the number, you'd get a save error. If you had clicked Edit at that point, you'd see just 12 in the Text field.

(Incidentally, you don't get the comma because the comma comes from number formatting, determined by your locale.)

So, IMO, both suggested answers (as recounted here) are a little misleading. (Did this practice exam come from Salesforce? If so, I'll try to follow up.)

Could it be that both answers are correct depending on which Salesforce release we are testing against? I tested against Winter 15.

Nope, it's always worked this way.