by Edward Sullivan

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November 5, 2010

The certification exam for ColdFusion 9 has been released.  Some details of interest:

  • Pearson VUE delivers the exam worldwide (NOTE: If you have never taken an Adobe exam with Pearson VUE, you will need to create a user account prior to scheduling your exam.)
  • Exam format: multiple-choice
  • Number of questions: 61
  • Passing score: 64%
  • Individuals who get a passing score of 80% or higher will receive the “Advanced ColdFusion” designation
  • Time: 80 minutes
  • Cost: $150
  • Language: English
  • Individuals get their score as soon as they finish the exam
  • Certificates are emailed to those who pass the exam

The prep guide can be found here and contains the exam structure, the exam outline and a few practice exam questions.

When you’re ready to schedule your exam, visit the Pearson VUE site.

COMMENTS

  • By Ahmer - 7:17 PM on November 5, 2010   Reply

    Is there going to be any upgrade exam for CF8 Certified developers?

    • By Edward Sullivan - 7:35 PM on November 5, 2010   Reply

      Ahmer –

      If you are asking if we are going to offer a re-certification exam like we do for some of our creative suite products – the answer is no, we will only have the full certification exam for ColdFusion 9.

      If you are asking if there is a discount for taking the CF 9 exam for folks who are already CF 8 certified, the answer is yes. You may use the promotion code UPGRD and get 50% off the normal price of the exam at the time of registration.

      • By Dave - 6:58 PM on November 14, 2010   Reply

        Hi Ed,

        Just want to know if the ColdFusion 8 exam is still available, (if available then how long it will exist)?.

        Thanks!

  • By gobbo67 - 8:39 AM on November 14, 2010   Reply

    Any info about availibilty of CF9 curriculum? See [0]

    [0] http://forums.adobe.com/thread/738191

    • By Edward Sullivan - 3:47 PM on November 15, 2010   Reply

      That site area is driven by the EDU team and I don’t know if they plan on making updated curriculum available for CF 9, sorry.

      Ed

  • By Raghuram Reddy - 11:25 AM on March 15, 2011   Reply

    @Edward Sullivan!

    Any coldfusion 9 certification related book(soft copy) avail in adobe site(s).

    • By Edward Sullivan - 12:19 PM on March 15, 2011   Reply

      Raghuram – sorry, there are no books available that I am aware of. I assume you have seen the prep guide: http://bit.ly/aVHMA1.

  • By Raghuram Reddy - 2:31 PM on March 15, 2011   Reply

    Thank you Edward.

  • By karuppusamy - 11:10 AM on April 12, 2011   Reply

    will the cold fusion certification helpful to my career growth?

  • By Jason Quatrino - 8:04 PM on April 21, 2011   Reply

    Regarding the prep guide linked above, I believe there is an error in the first question.

    Given the following … Which variable contains the generated primary key?

    The correct answer should be D – it varies depending on your database.

    In MSSQL it’s result_name.IDENTITYCOL
    In Oracle it’s result_name.ROWID
    In Sybase it’s result_name.SYB_IDENTITY
    In Informix it’s result_name.SERIAL_COL
    In MySQL it’s result_name.GENERATED_KEY

    This question and it’s associated mistake makes me nervous for a number of reasons. First – who in their right mind would need to memorize these attributes for all these SQL platforms?
    Second – What does that memorization buy you if you could look it up in the LiveDocs?
    Third – Even if I did memorize these attributes (of an attribute) and I answered it correctly, I’d still get it wrong according to Adobe.

    This leads me to my real point – memorizing tags, functions and attributes only gets you so far as a developer. It’s the practical application of that knowledge that is really valuable.

    Wouldn’t it be more valuable to present the test taker with problems and ask them to properly solve them using code examples in a multiple choice format?

  • By Aaron Neff - 5:15 PM on June 23, 2011   Reply

    Regarding the prep guide question Jason Quatrino is referring to:

    The “most-correct” answer is an undocumented feature added in CF9.

    Undocumented features should not be *first-learned* in the certification exam.

    Thus, the “correct” answer is “D – it varies depending on your database”, just as Jason suggests (or, preferably, both A & D).

    Due to some attribute naming inconsistencies, and tag vs script equivalent inconsistencies (some script “equivalents” don’t behave the same as their tag counterpart), I’d probably caution against _too_ much focus on memorizing loads of attribute and result key names.

    I agree that practical application would be a good key focus.

    Thanks!,
    -Aaron

  • By Andor Admiraal - 12:47 PM on January 9, 2012   Reply

    How can we schedule the said exam? The site of Pearson Vue only lists 8 different exams, and the only ColdFusion exam is for ColdFusion 8. It is three months after this blog post, so I think it should be available by now?

    It says that Pearson Vue offers this exam worldwide. But that probably doesn’t even matter, because you first need to select your exam and only after that you can select a location.

    In short: how can I actually sign my team here in India up for the exam?

    • By Andor Admiraal - 12:56 PM on January 9, 2012   Reply

      Nevermind… after logging in again to the Pearson Vue site a whole list appeared! Yeah!

  • By Ajo Koshy Joseph - 10:08 PM on February 3, 2012   Reply

    Planning to do a CF certification exam (CF9) now. Do I need to do it on CF9 or wait as CF10 is about to launch?

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