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tusharvjoshi
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July 2, 2012
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Certification attempt failed - how many days to wait before reattempt

  • July 2, 2012
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Hi,

I failed the Adobe ColdFusion 9 Certification attempt.  How many days should I wait reappearing for the test?  I could not find any information for this in any FAQ or page on Adobe.com

May be I am missing some portion of site, can anyone help me here

    Correct answer tusharvjoshi

    Yes, Mr. Forta is quite a generous source of help.  Particularly in areas where you cannot find any answers anywhere.

    Nice of you to share the information. Good luck.


    [SOLVED]

    I tried to schedule one more attempt today and the pearson vue site prompted me with a message that Adobe policy says that another attempt cannot be scheduled within 14 days of first attempt.

    As this is a fixed message from pearson vue, the answer to my question becomes 14 days.  14 days are required to appear for the exam once you fail one attempt as per Adobe policy conveyed to pearson vue  testing partner for Adobe.

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    compass2k
    Participating Frequently
    February 4, 2025

    Its worse now - theyve handed certification to a company that takes $400 then cant be bothered to even give you a receipt let alone access to training for over a week.

    No wonder ColdFusion is pretty well dead - Adobe is a just a bunch of Indians overcharging Westerners for nothing until we finally wake up.

    Maybe Trump will stop harassing Canada and look at Delhi ?

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    Charlie Arehart
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    Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2025

    Odd to piggyback on a 13 year old thread. Anyway, are you really referring to CF certification? The price is only $149, and had been for some years. It's also a vastly better cert program than the one of previous decades. 

     

    Where did you pay $400? The Adobe site for the cert is https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html and registration link there is indeed handled via a "3rd party", Carahsoft, who have longstanding success as an Adobe partner supporting cf specifically (including hosting next months CF Summit East as well as most Adobe cf webinars).

     

    <soapbox>

    I could leave it at the facts shared above, really hoping to help clarify things. But then you've gone beyond the one concern to raise some pretty damning words, which can't just be ignored. 

     

    I'd say neither Carahsoft nor the CF team deserve the aspersions you're casting here, from all my experience. Once things are resolved for or clarified you, it would sure seem an apology may be order.

     

    Also, how can you claim cf is "pretty well dead" with Cf2025 just about to be released? Adobe also has reported increased cf license sales at each recent cf conference--and FWIW I've also not seen any net decrease in the number of cf clients I serve over the past 10 years. There have also been over 400 new threads in this cf forum the past year. That's hardly dead or dying. 

     

    Cf may not be everyone's cup of tea, but to assert that "no one wants to drink it anymore" is pure FUD--bordering on libel, given the facts. 

     

    Finally, sure, many may hate that it's a commercially licensed product (free only for development)--contending even that "this is what's killing it". But that debate's been hashed out countless times in this and other forums. The stances are well understood--no one needs to get in their "pound of flesh" on that point here. Pay the price or move on to alternatives. 

     

    The rest of us supporting the cf community will be here helping those who stick with ir, like has gone on for nearly 30 years. 

    </soapbox>

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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    compass2k
    Participating Frequently
    February 4, 2025
    Yeah - it's entirely normal for an organization to take money for an online
    training / certification program and say we might contact you in a week or
    so in 2025.

    I was trying to make the case CF is still functional as the org wants to
    get rid of it but this makes
    me and Adobe and particularly Carahsoft look stuck in the 1980s with the
    devs waiting for someone to send out emails with links a week after taking
    the money so they can start a course already deployed online.

    Embarrassing but revealing .

    After my spit Carahsoft woke up and blamed a third party.

    Borderline wonder why I bothered.

    d

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    tusharvjoshiAuthor
    Participant
    July 16, 2012

    UPDATE:

    I passed the ACE exam today.  Thanks all for support.

    BKBK
    Community Expert
    BKBKCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 16, 2012

    My, what motivation! Congratulations!

    BKBK
    Community Expert
    BKBKCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 2, 2012

    Sorry to hear about your result. I do not think the ColdFusion exam has such a waiting period. To be sure, ask Mr. Ben Forta.

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    tusharvjoshiAuthor
    Participant
    July 2, 2012

    @BRBK,

    Thanks for the answer, I will also send a mail to Mr.Ben as you suggested.

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    tusharvjoshiAuthor
    Participant
    July 2, 2012

    UPDATE: For the curious ones:

    Mr. Ben Forta readily helped me.  He said that there is no minimum time. He also adviced me that I should not  take the test until I have had the time to go through each and every CF tag and language elements, and tried out every option in the ColdFusion Administrator.

    This is very kind of him, I am happy with the support I got on this forum as well as from Mr. Ben's email.

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