By "ACE", I mean that as of 8:45am this morning, I'm an Adobe Certified Expert in Flex 3 with AIR.
The exam was interesting.
To be honest, I think it'd be relatively easy to fail even for an experienced dev. A lot of the questions are basic, but some are tricky purely because they're so specific. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't tend to keep screeds of syntax and namespaces in my head. I generally know vaguely what I need, and what it's probably called (or should be called)... Intellisense gets the me rest of the way there. And if there was anything I was unsure of, a google would remind me quickly enough.
The ACE exam is not at all like that. You WILL get questions about class/event/method names, and it doesn't matter how easy it is to look it up in the real world. Moral of the story, kids - don't make the mistake of thinking that just because you're a good Flex developer and work with Flex 8 hours a day, you'll be sweet.
At least scan EVERYTHING in the livedocs or you're going to get thrown by obscure questions about the AIR update process or the correct name of the event dispatched in blah situation. Or something else you've never used before, won't ever use, and don't much care about.
You don't find out at the end which questions you got right/wrong, just your overall percentages. The questions I assume I got right, I knew without a shadow of a doubt. The ones I didn't know, I really didn't know, no idea whatsoever - any I got right out of the ones I "flag[ged] for review" were dumb luck.
Anyway, onwards and upwards!
Now I'm quite looking forward to my Flex 4 exam next month. These days I'm far more current with the Gumbo/Hero nitty-gritty than with Flex 3 and I've been itching for a chance to do a Flex 4 skinning deep-dive. Muwahaha. Should be great...
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