Win a free copy of Attest - the Flex 2 certification practice exam
Apr 8th, 2008 by Dave
Did you know that you can get the Flex 3 Developer certification (when that becomes available) for $50, 30-60 questions, in an hour or less, from your desktop?
How can it be? Adobe recertification exams my friend 
For any current ACE's holding the Flex 2 certification, the price is $50 for 30-60 multiple choice questions on only the new product features, you can take it via the web and get your Flex 3 Developer cert when it becomes available. In fact, you must successfully complete the recert exam within 90 days of the Flex 3 exam's release to keep your ACE status current.
So rumor has it that the Flex 3 exam won't be ready for many months to come. Here's what I'm thinking, why not grab the Flex 2 certification if you haven't already? There's so much material available to help you pass, this time last year there wasn't a ton. Flex 3 is brand new and by the time that exam is available there will be more study/practice material but in the meantime, wouldn't it be easier to study for Flex 2 while the exam's still available and just take the recert in a few months time? Indeed it would!
That brings me to my next idea. I've been hearing great things from people who have used Attest to study for the Flex 2 certification. Not only are they passing, but they're getting incredible scores! Does my heart good that it was a worthwhile project, I had my doubts at first, but Attest seems to have fulfilled it's purpose.
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UPDATE: The contest is over, we found our winners! Nice work! I'll post their names in a new post, and the answers are in the comments section
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To celebrate Attest's success, I figured I'd run a little mini contest, shouldn't be tough 
But for the first 3 responders who email the correct answers to these 3 questions win a free copy of Attest!
NOTE: Please don't write the answers in the comments as that defeats the purpose for the next guy, but if you're a smarty pants and/or you're a whiz at whipping through LiveDocs, send the answers to me at customersupport AT pxldesigns DOT com The first 3 to respond with the correct answers get a nifty manual activation for Attest free, and you can start studying to grab that Flex 2 cert so you can sip your coffee at your computer when the recert is available.
I will post again here with the results. First 3 responders, don't forget, email me, don't write the answers here in the comments as it doesn't make a whole ton of sense much more sensible to email them.
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UPDATE: The contest is over, we found our winners! Nice work! I'll post their names in a new post, and the answers are in the comments section
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Ready? Set? Livedocs!
Questions:
1. Which of the following namespace attributes makes a property visible to references inside the same package, AND is also the default for ActionScript 3? Choose one.
public
private
protected
internal
2. Given the ActionScript 3 code below, what is the output of the following trace statement? Choose one.
var str:String = "Hello from Paris, Texas!!!";
trace(str.substr(11,15));
Paris
Paris, Texas!!!
Texas!!!
Pari
3. Concerning CSS styles, if you call the setStyle() method on a component instance, that method takes precedence over all style settings, including inline.
True
False
So the answers to this one are:
1. internal // Happens to be the default namespace attribute for AS3. Makes a property visible to references inside the same package.
2. Paris, Texas!!! // The substr() and substring() methods always mess me up because they’re so similar.
Both return a substring of a string. Both take two parameters. In both methods, the first parameter is the position of the starting character in the given string. However, in the substr() method, the second parameter is the length of the substring to return, and in the substring() method, the second parameter is the position of the character at the end of the substring (which is not included in the returned string).
3. True // Calling the method takes precedence over all style settings. It will override inline styles set on components as well.
I’m going to make a new post with the winners info, so look for that one above this post
I took (and passed) the Flex 2 Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam today. I used Attest, and though I would not use it as my sole exam prep resource, I highly recommend it! I know I answered many questions just because I used Attest.
Minimum score 73% and I got a 77%.
I studied pretty hard for this exam, though I was weak on Flex Data Services. My strength in other areas saved me.
Section Name - Percent Correct
Flex Application User Interface (UI) Creation - 93% correct
Flex System Architecture and Design - 92% correct
Flex Application Programming Fundamentals - 75% correct
Interacting with Remote Data and Flex Applications - 46% correct
I thought the exam was tough! I had doubts I would pass, but I said a prayer at the end, maybe that helped.
Nice one Greg, congratulations! Now you can sip your coffee when the Flex 3 recert exam comes out, cool and relaxed
I definitely wouldn’t rely only on Attest to pass the Flex 2 Developer Exam because it’s pretty tough. The material that helped me the most (besides Attest, because I wrote it
and therefore memorized it pretty well after 500 zillion practices) were the Programming Flex 2 O’Reilly book by Chafic Kazoun & Joey Lott, and the Flex 2 Advanced: Using Data Services videos on Lynda.com by David Gassner…..and of course combing through the livedocs over and over like a librarian.
For anyone attempting to pass the Flex 2 exam, that’s my best advice.