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uCertify prepKit review

April 30th, 2008

uCertify contacted me to do a review on one of their prepKits. It’s a simulator of various certification tests. I’ve asked for the Adobe Certified Expert on Flash. I downloaded the A9A0-311 Macromedia Flash Professional 8 kit.

To begin you need to download the uCertify PrepEngine. It’s ‘kind of’ like a framework that you install once, and then can simply download different prepKits to use with. You can also download a free evaluation version with 30 practice questions.

Once you install the engine and run the program the main window appears:

The look and feel is quite nice and modern. I started by taking the first Diagnostic test. The questions are like a quiz, and are multiple choice. Some are select the correct answer, some are drag and drop. The questions are a range of  simple actionscript questions as well as Flash IDE questions. Eg: Name the tools from the toolbar. I failed the first time, and I was amused to get a score of 666.

In addition of having a quiz style test simulator. You also have a set of tools to help you study and prepare for the test.

There is a lot of content to go through and help you out on your certification quest. The flash cards is good way to memorise and practice the different type of questions. There are several basic flash tutorials in the “how to” section.

Overall
If you want to get a certification I would definitely recommend you try this out.  uCertify has a money-back guarantee policy, that will return your money back if you fail the exam the first time.

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