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Coldfusion 8 Certification

I took the Coldfusion 8 Certification exam against my better judgment, and even after reading Ray Camden's post. I did review the new and updated tags since MX7 but saying that I studied would be a bit of an exaggeration

. I was also out last night with the speakers and sponsors of Coldfusion Camp and got home just before midnight.

I finished the test in 40 minutes and reviewed the entire test once more to make sure that I didn't fall trap to a trick questions, a misspellings, grammatical errors or any of the blatant typos that I noticed during the test. I considered adding comments to all the questions that I found problems but if they hadn't fixed them since before June 3rd when Ray Camden took the test I figured why waste my time.

Anyway you may be wondering what my score was, or not, but I am going to tell you anyway. I scored 90%

I had planned on then advancing to become a certified Coldfusion Trainer but after discussing this issue at length with someone who is already a certified trainer I think I will wait until Adobe rewrites the entire Coldfusion curriculum. Or perhaps I will pursue the trainer certification anyway at least then I will be a Certified trainer training people with non-certified materials where they at least will learn how to program.

Happy Coding...

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Marcos Placona's Gravatar Hey good news.. congratulations!
# Posted By Marcos Placona | 11/28/08 11:38 AM
Chris's Gravatar Congrats Gary! Good job. :-)

About the trainer question: I was a certified trainer for CF 5 and 6 and found it isn't worth it. If you want to be a trainer for more than just the certificate, meaning if you really want to teach, talk to other independent trainers and start teaching a class that makes more sense than the official CF classes.
# Posted By Chris | 11/28/08 2:33 PM
John Whish's Gravatar Congratulations Gary. I've been putting off the CF8 exam in light of recent comments, but you might just have persuaded me to give it a go!
# Posted By John Whish | 11/28/08 4:56 PM
Ben Nadel's Gravatar Awesome! Congratulations.
# Posted By Ben Nadel | 11/28/08 6:13 PM
Akbarsait's Gravatar Great and Congratulations.
# Posted By Akbarsait | 11/28/08 11:18 PM