Being a good procrastinator, I waited long enough after attending the Flash Lite 1.1 training, so that I had forgotten every bit of advice and exam tip. Completely.

As I still wanted to take the exam before the year ends, last week I ended up scheduling the exam for this Friday (yes, the last work day before Xmas... nice job Hartti, Like you didn't have enough to do work and preparing for the Xmas already). But without deadlines, I would not work as effectively :-)

And like before so many exams before, I ended up scrambling late in to the night the day before to go through the training materials. But when I sat in front of the computer at the certification center, I felt ok. I thought I had mastered the training material, and used the authoring tool long enough to be able to pass the exam.

To my horror the first few questions were totally unfamiliar to me... "If I get this error, what's the problem?" (ehh.. I write always error-free code, so of course this was a new situation to me) "How to solve this situation?" and so on. Apparently the test makers really wanted this to be a "Developer" exam, not just exam to be passed by reading manuals. (Question to myself: Why would I be surprised of this, the exam is after all a Flash Lite 1.1 Mobile Developer Exam....)

After an hour of sweating (umm.. the room was hot, I of course knew well what I was doing...) I ended up passing the exam. I have to admit that the exam was better designed than I initially thought. One needs really hands-on experience of Flash Lite development and deployment to pass this one. Well done, exam designers!

For those who do not know: This certification exam can be taken through VUE or Thomson Prometric.