Sven Dens

Just a quick brag post
This morning I passed the ACE Exam “Flex 3 with AIR”.  Feels good to have that one in the bank

To be well prepared for the exam, I read the Flex 3 documentation and the Adobe AIR 1.5 documentation, especially the documents “Developing Adobe AIR 1.5 Applications with ADOBE FLEX 3″ and the “Adobe Flex 3 Developer Guide”, both available free of charge from Adobe.  I also downloaded Attest, an Adobe AIR application that was developed by the lovely people over at PXL Designs which you can download for free, and ran all the practice exams multiple times.  Unfortunately I must say, this effort was virtually worthless for what the exam was concerned.  Not a single question from the practice exams appeared on the real exam, nor did the “toughness” of the real questions reflect those in the practice exams.

To be honest, I must say that I found the exam quite hard.  After all, it’s been more than 3 years since I’ve been developing in Flex, and I would have expected the exam to be rather easy for a trained developer.  However, out of the 50 questions/problems I got, I would have to digg deep and long to find 20 of those that I’ve actually ever used in real-world application development.
So, reading through those PDF’s sure wasn’t a luxury to be able to pass this exam, not for me at least.

I know there are many possible questions out of which you’re presented 50 at the exam, so maybe I just got unlucky in the selection that I was presented with.
Anyway, if you’re looking to become certified too, make sure you’re well-prepared and good luck to you!

Sven