ColdFusion Certification Study Group
We have started a weekly ColdFusion Certification Study Group at the office to help everyone prepare for the test. I have heard a lot of people bad mouth the industry value of CF certification but the marketability of the certification is the last thing on my mind. For me it's a great team building event, it helps us learn more about the newer features of the language we haven't used and lastly it's good fun.
Nine people expressed an interested in the brown bag lunch session which takes one hour each Monday for 10 weeks. Everyone bought the ColdFusion MX7 Certified Study guide by Ben Forta. We are covering 5 chapters a week and five developers are responsible for developing five questions for a chapter.
Early Monday morning I compile the questions into a Word document and then when we meet, we answer the 25 questions before reviewing the answers and discussing why some of the options are incorrect or some are more correct.
I think the involvement of each team member in the process of writing questions means they are invested in the process. That said, I will be listing the questions each week from our study group if anyone would like to follow along. This week's document covers week 1 - chapters 1 thru 5 and the questions were provided by me, Kelly Tetterton, Tim Yager, Jough Dempsey and Jaime Smith.
After certification we'll have a good old trip to the pub to celebrate.