ColdFusion certification

A respectable score. Congratulations!

Good luck. I sat for the exam in Oct at MAX and got 86%. I took the questions(topics) I was getting wrong on the exambuster test and would read through the CF doc's which are much more comprehensive than any other source.

Log on to these forums and answer at least 10 questions per day.

Grynch108, there is just one person with that much horsepower in the motor, Dan himself.

re: Although CFexambuster covers the same topics as the real exam, the
questions
aren't that similar.

I'd say they shouldn't be, this tool is to prepapre you so the questions
need to be harder. I'd say a 70% pass on examBuster would give a 90% pass on
an actual exam. Seriously, I bet you will be really surprised at how easy
you find this exam!


"Swampie" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I sat the exam in January. Although I was getting in the 70%-80% range on
> CFexambuster, on the day I got 86%. Not that the real exam is easier. I
> think I
> just concentrated more (It's too easy just to rush through the exambuster
> questions)
>
> Although CFexambuster covers the same topics as the real exam, the
> questions
> aren't that similar.
>
> My biggest tip - make sure you know all CF Functions, Tags and scope
> variables. It 's an easy way to score cheap points (or lose them).
> Sometimes
> the questions can be rather pedantic (eg. knowing which of these is valid
> cgi.remote_address or cgi.remote_addr etc ).
>
> <rant>
> As a developer, I'm always referring to LiveDocs or code hints to get my
> syntax right. It's impossible to remember it all, especially for
> functions/tags
> that are used sparingly. Unfortunately, the exam places an unfair emphasis
> on
> knowing such things.
> </rant>
>

Get Ben Forta's book today. Also run through his collection of sample MX7 exam questions.

Consult the book and do the sample exams at every available minute. Think and dream tags and functions. Always read up on the questions you get wrong.

Get enough sleep, just enough. Fine-tune your biorhythm towards the exam. If your exam is, say, on Friday from 2:00 P.M. to 3:15 P.M. then make sure that, from Monday to Thursday, you're doing Coldfusion between 2:00 P.M. and 3:15 P.M.. If you sleep at those times, you might at the exam, too.

Eat healthy. Walk away from stress if you can and, at least for this week, avoid the little pleasures of life. Drink enough water everyday. It keeps the brain afloat. You should sail through it.

quote:

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Originally posted by: Grynch108
Hi,
Apologies if this isn't in the correct forum.
I've recently started my career in IT, and currently have 2 years experience of using ColdFusion. I decided to schedule my Adobe coldfusion exam, and I am going to be sitting it in a week's time.
Anyway, the point of this topic is to ask for any advice or tips that might help me to pass the exam.

How should I spend my final week revising?

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Log on to these forums and answer at least 10 questions per day. Anything you don't know, look up.

I sat the exam in January. Although I was getting in the 70%-80% range on CFexambuster, on the day I got 86%. Not that the real exam is easier. I think I just concentrated more (It's too easy just to rush through the exambuster questions)

Although CFexambuster covers the same topics as the real exam, the questions aren't that similar.

My biggest tip - make sure you know all CF Functions, Tags and scope variables. It 's an easy way to score cheap points (or lose them). Sometimes the questions can be rather pedantic (eg. knowing which of these is valid cgi.remote_address or cgi.remote_addr etc ).

<rant>
As a developer, I'm always referring to LiveDocs or code hints to get my syntax right. It's impossible to remember it all, especially for functions/tags that are used sparingly. Unfortunately, the exam places an unfair emphasis on knowing such things.
</rant>

re: I have read through the official MX7 study guide, and
have also been using a program called cf exambuster.

Thats a good start. But I wouldn't rely solely on those tools. A good way to
help yourself is to make up your own exam questions. Try and make the
questions tricky and try and make them cover all of the exam objectives. By
doing this you are kind of thinking of it from both sides, the examiner and
the examinee. You could even post these questions on a web page and get
other folk in here try and answer them correctly?? (though sounds like time
is short given you are doing this in week)

Keep using cf exambuster and keep reading the study guide, seems like you
are going to pass okay as, yes, the actual exam is, imho, not as hard as
what you may think it is going to be.

Let us all know how you do!!


"Grynch108" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Apologies if this isn't in the correct forum.
>
> I've recently started my career in IT, and currently have 2 years
> experience
> of using ColdFusion. I decided to schedule my Adobe coldfusion exam, and I
> am
> going to be sitting it in a week's time.
>
> Anyway, the point of this topic is to ask for any advice or tips that
> might
> help me to pass the exam. I have read through the official MX7 study
> guide, and
> have also been using a program called cf exambuster.
>
> Unfortunately, Adobe have decided to put the pass mark up to 70%, and I'm
> getting about 74% on average on the tests. This only gives me a 4% margin
> of
> error, which isn't much and is starting to get me a tad worried! I have
> heard
> that the CF Exam buster tests are actually harder than the Adobe tests.
> Does
> anyone know if this is true?
>
> How should I spend my final week revising?
>
> Many thanks.
> :)
>