Adobe Certified Associate of Flash

Yesterday I finally decided to take my certification of exam to become an associate of Adobe Flash.

However, to get to this point it was quite the ordeal. Not because I had to learn the software, I've been using it for six versions now so I wasn't worried about that, but because testing centers in my area are scarce. In fact, there's one in all of northwest Georgia apparently.

Since the exam is work-related my company allowed me to schedule it on my lunch break and to reserve a conference room. The day of the exam, the test center called me and said they're going to let me take it when I get to my home PC and that I can log-in from there. Later that night, I paid for the exam, installed all the plug-ins and tried to take the exam. After about three hours of errors, tech support and back and forth on telephone calls I decided to try it another day. Finally, the next day I was able to go to a learning center in Atlanta to take the exam on a computer, which I'm pretty sure is at least a decade old and ran very slowly, but at least I finally got to take the exam.

To become Adobe Certified was more of a personal goal to show that not only have I been using Flash for 8 years and am qualified for my position, but just as proof that I know it well enough for Adobe to recognize it. Maybe in the future I'll try the Adobe Certified Expert exam, but for now I'm just happy to finally have this exam completed.