Cleared Flex 4 ACE exam

[Ram Manoj Kongara]

Hi Guys,

I am quite happy to share with you that I cleared my Flex 4 ACE exam
with 79% today morning.
I wished I scored a notch higher.

I feel for me it's not just clearing the exam, but getting better
acquainted with the technology that is important.

I took my own time in preparing for the exam objectives and I enjoyed
learning through this stuff and am quite fascinated by the range of
topics covered be it understanding the layout manager, skinning
architecture or air security or messaging, data management and in
fact everything and the amount of thought that has gone through
designing and architechting Flex.

As for the exam:
The pattern of questions were single choice, multi-choice mentioning
number of correct answers to choose, multi-choice without mentioning
the number of correct answers to choose.

Some of the questions were quite tricky and thought provoking.
The sad part is despite the challenge, of these one or two questions
have no proper answer from the choices provided (I bet they have no
answer) and some in an attempt to frame tricky questions by Adobe, one
or two questions were ambiguous in the question itself, and even if
you know either way of answering the question, you end up unable to
choose an answer for the question is not clear.

There were few surprise questions regarding Model driven development,
invoking native process(AIR), native installer(AIR), LCDS stuff
(unrelated to synchronization or paging) which are not part of 'Topic
Areas and Objectives' of the exam.

Do you use Attest both 2 and 3 in practicing for the exam for they
give an idea and prepare you to cover the range of topics, varieties
the questions that can popup.

In Attest 3, I found the links for preparing exam objectives are not
very handy and sometimes comprehensive too.

I will update this thread for my blog link, where I will be posting
documentation references and links objective wise as per what I could
make out at the minimum. Frankly, this took me some time to figure out
where to find what to cover all topics, objectives of the exam. For
Livedocs for Flex is I feel quite huge and comprehensive, and you
cannot afford to read through each and everything of it.

So that is all what I can think of to share with you all presently.

Bye,

Ram Manoj Kongara.

[Saurabh Narula]

Ram Thank you for sharing your experience, and congratulations! on the achievement.

Guess flex 4 is pretty popular in terms of certification, guys do let us know if you get certified, it would be great to share our experiences with each other on the list, we can also start a separate thread just about flex 4 certification.

Saurabh

http://blog.saurabhnarula.com/

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[deepak bh]

Congratulations Mr. Ram Manoj Kongara !

@Saurabh,

 

I agree with the same. Its better to start a new thread for Flex 4 Certification where the study material can be shared along with the valuable suggestions and guidance.

 

 

Regards,

Deepak

[natwa...@hytechpro.com]

Congratulations!

Thanks,
Natwar Garg

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[Ram Manoj Kongara]

Hi All,

Thank you for your comments.
Uploaded a document to Google docs with the compiled references for
Flex 4 ACE exam.
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7j29UtS_d4zNzkxZDc0N2ItZTA1MC00ODE4LTg5NjktOWU5NTE2MWEwN2Vm&hl=en

References for following objectives are pending.
• Explain the importance of and implement data paging on data sets.
• Understand synchronization and online/offline use cases using data
management.

Do put in your suggestions, reference links at my blog
http://riadeveloper.blogspot.com/, so I can update the document.

Thanks,
Ram Manoj Kongara.

On Oct 17, 12:53 am, natwar.g...@hytechpro.com wrote:
> Congratulations!
>
> Thanks,
> Natwar Garg
>
> On Sat, October 16, 2010 2:35 pm, deepak bh wrote:
> > Congratulations Mr. Ram Manoj Kongara !
> > @Saurabh,
>
> > I agree with the same. Its better to start a new thread for Flex 4
> > Certification where the study material can be shared along with the
> > valuable suggestions and guidance.
>
> > Regards,
> > Deepak
>
> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Saurabh Narula <
> > reachsaurabhnar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Ram Thank you for sharing your experience, and congratulations! on the
> >> achievement.
>
> >> Guess flex 4 is pretty popular in terms of certification, guys do let
> >> us know if you get certified, it would be great to share our experiences
> >> with each other on the list, we can also start a separate thread just
> >> about flex 4 certification.
>
> >> Saurabh
> >>http://blog.saurabhnarula.com/
>
> >> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Ram Manoj Kongara

> >> <k.ramma...@gmail.com>wrote:

[Ram Manoj Kongara]

Looks like I posted a wrong link for the document mentioned above.
Please use the following link
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7j29UtS_d4zYTE1MDUxYzQtMjM2Ny00N2JmLWE5ZTktMGZhZDI3MzMwMDU0&hl=en&authkey=CNKcxLII

Thanks,
Ram Manoj Kongara.

[Nakul Mishra]

Thanks for the post

Ram Manoj Kongara.

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[Kiran Kumar Vasireddy]

Congratulations on your certification . Most importantly I can not stop appreciating you for the google doc and the blog and the information U passed to the group . This is definitely useful to others

Regards
Kiran

[Saurabh Narula]

I share the same sentiment with Kiran!!

On the open sections in the document - 

- you can add this reference point also for data paging 

http://www.jamesward.com/2010/10/11/data-paging-in-flex-4/

- for asynchronous and synchronous database operations 

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=SQL_14.html

- for offline data storage and caching, you can mention these pointers 

http://livedocs.adobe.com/livecycle/8.2/programLC/programmer/lcds/help.html?content=dms_advanced_2.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/LiveCycleDataServicesES/3.1/Developing/WS4ba8596dc6a25eff5fb1bf7c1271f8f6997-7fff.html

Thank you.

Saurabh Narula

http://blog.saurabhnarula.com

[Malek S]

Hi

 

Congratulations !!

 

and thanks for the info

[Ram Manoj Kongara]

Thanks Kiran and Saurabh for your inputs.

I updated the document with the new references to Google Docs shared
folder as link gets changed each time document is uploaded without
replacing existing one.

You can access the shared folder here.
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7j29UtS_d4zZjRiMmVkNzUtNjIzZS00YzYzLTk4MGQtNGQ1NjUwNTY4YjMz&hl=en

Thanks,
Ram Manoj Kongara.