I won a copy of Attest!
Yay me! The guys over at pxl designs ran a contest today that gave away 3 copies of their excellent Flex 2 certification practice exam, Attest, for free to anyone who answered 3 flex questions correctly. Apparently they were only medium difficulty as I was able to answer them all correctly 
I had previously only downloaded the trial version and found the questions to be well written, difficult enough to make you think (and question whether you are selecting the correct answer because of the excellent potential alternate answers), with excellent, concise answers explaining why a certain answer was correct over another.
A co-worker has been nudging me to take the Flex certification exam, for nothing other than proof that I know what I’m talking about, or that I can flash my Certification when I’m giving a demonstration to my team He already passed his exam with no exam studying, just one year of intense self-study-by-doing. I had been putting off taking the exam month after month, saying to myself “once I download the practice exam and go through it a few times, I’ll take the test”. Well, now I’ve got the practice exam and have no excuses for not taking the certification.
I’ll have to take the practice tests a few times, just to make sure I’ve got everything, and read up on some of the documentation over at livedocs, but after that, I’m certification bound
Hey Gareth,
You were fast too! and the substr() vs substring() functions still mess me up 50% of the time at least
Nice work!
I have used this attest software more than 3 months. yesterday I have taken the exam and failed. Not a single question come from this software. I thing, I have wasted my time. My experience with this software was very-very bad. It was too much frustrating for me. I will not recommend this software to anyone. Please don’t use!!!!!!
Sorry to hear that your experience wasn’t very good. I would say that this software is not supposed to give you exact questions from the test, but rather provide you with a better means of studying for the exam and at least point out flaws in your thinking and get you looking into things you might not realize you do not know. This is by no means an easy test (I *still* have yet to take it). What is your flex knowledge before you got to the test? How much time did you put in to actually study…using the software for 3 months is not going to give you the required knowledge to take the test.
I would say that a better way than just stating that the test is no good and “please don’t use”, would be to provide the Attest folk with feedback on why the prep software did not work for you. They put in a great deal of their time to provide the software (FREE!! software) to try to help others pass the exam. Give them a hand to improve their product, but don’t try to just trash their software, please.