I am now a Certified Advanced ColdFusion developer
15 comments Posted by: Laura
I have finally taken the certification test after all these years of being a CF developer. The reason it took me so long was that I never saw the need for it. It seemed to me that I would only need it if I were looking for job. So why did I take it? Because I am pursuing the instructor certification from Macromedia, and this is one of the requirements.
The questions were not difficult, but some of them were a little tricky or required memorization (something I am really bad at). I got a 94%, qualifying for the "advanced" title.
Because I had never taken an exam of this type, I bought the Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Certified Developer Study Guide by Ben Forta, to see what topics would be covered and the format and type of questions I could get. The questions in the exam were easier than those in the guide, but I am glad I read it because besides being good practice, there were a couple of questions that I wouldn't have known without it.
As a side note, we would like to thank our readers for sending us gifts from our Amazon wish list:
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Write yours& just wanted to say excellent work on your site!
I assure you coders all over the world are learning far more about the cfform tag from your stuff than they are from macromedia.com
I completed an Advanced CF course in London, and after talking to the instructor I bought the developer study guide.
It's a great book, and well worth the little amount of money it costs.
By the way, I think I saw your name in the offical list of developers over at Macromedia.
Well done!
Indeed there is a lot of good information in this book, I learned a lot from it.
You should try the Actionscript certification it's pretty easy ;))
Cheers,
Philippe
I have tried EVERYTHING I can think of, and just can't seem to produce any results past displaying the javascript code in the text area.
Thanks.
"The polls widget" : may I have a look to the code?
All the best.
Seen this before? Have been on various lists but no luck. Pretty stuck here, and in trouble if i cant get app to work.
Using cf 7.0.1 and IIS.
Thanks for the great site and best wishes to you on your instructor cert!
Paul,
That is a common problem. Check the last paragraph of this post on how to set up Flash Remoting on IIS http://www.asfusion.com/blog/entry/introduction-to-flash-remoting. Or check MM docs on Flash Remoting set up.
Definitely cool, please drop a post once you've completed it. I'm eager to hear about the process.