I found this to be the case as well. I took the CF5 exam a little over a month ago.
My Web App Construction Kit 4.0 book had been long well-worn (the
5.0 version came out a week or two after my exam, so I didn't have it in advance). My
Developer Study Guide was read cover-to-cover twice and I also had
read the (wrox) Professional CF 5.0 book. Even though I *thought* I had covered all
the "new" 5.0 features in the Professional CF 5.0 book (and liked
the book very much), I still saw stuff on the exam that I had never seen before.
References to tags I didn't know if they truly existed (in 5.0) or were
just a trick and some other 5.0 features that I was like, "huh?" to. I don't know.
Maybe Ben's 5.0 book covers more of the 5.0 features than the
Professional book does. If so, I would recommend studying with that. I think Chris'
suggestion of just going through the CF documentation would benefit
anyone preparing for the exam, as well. My two cents.
Kamie
Chris Bohill wrote:
> One of the Guys in our place took the exam recently. He had been using
> the Study book as well, but found that there were a substantial number
> of Questions relating to new features within CF5, which the current
> study guide does not cover.
>
> My advice would be to print off a copy of the new CF5 features (Tags and
> Functions) and learn them in conjunction with the study guide.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Bohill
> BIZNET
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 24 September 2001 15:48
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Certified Master ColdFusion 5 Developer
>
> On the line of the Allaire certification, I've always wondered on one
> thing.
> The sample exam at forta.com has 25 questions and (that I can see) does
> not
> enforce a time limit. Maybe I've just always answered within the
> restrictions, tho.
>
> How many questions are there on the exam, or is that not something that
> can
> be said? I'm a volunteer examiner for the Amateur Radio community and
> our
> exams are set up so that there are x number of questions out of each
> section
> (there are 10 sections for each exam), totaling y. Is it something like
> that for the Allaire cert?
>
> I have the study book and am planning on taking my test sometime in the
> next
> 3-6 months, as time allows.
>
> If these questions are out of line then I apologize ahead of time.
>
> Hatton Humphrey
>
> > Brainbnech is easy comparatively, you get like 60 or 90 seconds per
> > question. I just took the Allaire CF 5.0 exam and did not do so
> > well... the
> > questions for the cf 5 exam (form allaire) are much harder than those
> at
> > Brainbench.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > > has anyone taken both tests, how do they compare for difficulty?
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > Brainbench and Allaires test are like apples and oranges.. :-)
> > > > Brainbench do a Master Cert - I can't remember my score but it was
> > > > enough.
> > > >
> > > > Tristram Charnley
>
>
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