One of my customers asked me to get an ACE and said he was buying, so I decided to give it a shot. So I got it, it wasn’t that hard. But those questions were terrible. There were something like 3 questions that asked me more or less the same question: do I know the name of the class that manages the updates for an AIR app, and what is the name of its main method. It happens that I guessed my way to the right answer, I think, but really, what is the point? Isn’t there the Internet for that kind of knowledge? Or autocomplete in Flash Builder? Furthermore there were some basic English language mistakes in the text. I’ve heard from colleagues that the French translation is atrocious too.
But, you might ask, those are isolated, right? Most questions require some actual knowledge, don’t they? I’d say about a third of the questions required something else besides learning the API and doc by heart. The other was stuff like the update question above. Another one that struck me was “You have a DataGrid. To add a column, do you use DataColumn, or DataGridColumn?”. Gosh that’s deep.
Flex ACE exam sucks
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by Chris
24 Feb 2011 at 02:58
Waste of money. It’s no different than the endless Microsoft certifications available. They exist to make the provider money and that’s all. You have no idea how many “Microsoft certified” idiots I’ve run into in my time that were able to pass the test but had no clue of how to use or manage the products in the real world. Adobe is no different, jumping on the bandwagon to suck a few more dollars out of the community that uses their products or give some warm and fuzzy feeling to people who hire them. Either you know what you’re doing or you don’t… no piece of paper blessed by some institution and some money changes that fact. Period.
by admin
25 Feb 2011 at 16:07
yes, but I see the need for a piece of paper that shows that you actually know your stuff. Some recruiters or clients can’t tell, and that’s often why they come to you. To have a paper that says “I rule and I can get your stuff done so trust me, it says so on this paper” would be cool. These certifications don’t cut it though.