On Friday I wrote and passed [86%] the Adobe Flash 8 Certified Professional exam. This exam contains questions relating to both Designer and Developers with majority [+/- 75/25] seeming to be Developer related. Saying so, the first 5 or 6 questions where all Design based [Questions like what import settings to use with FreeHand/Illustrator files with gradients] and had me nervous.

The types of questions asked were about Audio/Video import types, LoadVars, fonts, OOP, cacheAsBitmap…. I reckon if you have the pleasure of working with Flash everyday you should do fine, but if like me you feel the need to do some studying then look at the exam prep guide for the exam at the Adobe site, as well as the guide for the MX 2004 Designer/Developer. Also search out the Flash Coders forum and lastly Google the exam to see what the others have studied, unfortunately there isn’t a lot of information from Adobe about the exam.

Interestingly there was a question about how to create a MovieClip with an ‘instance name’ of ‘myMC’, these were the options:

myMC = new MovieClip(‘myMC’,100);
myMC.duplicateMovieClip(‘my_mc’,100);
myMC.attachMovie(‘myMC’,’my_mc’,100);
myMC.createEmptyMovieClip(‘my_mc’,100);

Is it just me or am I missing something?