Professional certificate program from Adobe for ColdFusion developers.
Give your ColdFusion career an edge. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist is a blended learning certificate program, comprising 15+ hours of online videos followed by a day-long, hands-on workshop. Designed for ColdFusion professionals who have basic to advance level proficiency in web designing, HTML and JavaScript. Badge & certificate from Adobe upon successful completion of assessment. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist is co-located at ColdFusion Summit and would be held at The Mirage, Las Vegas on September 30th 2019. Register Now.
How it works
Step 1: Register and get enrolled into the program and get access* to 15+ hours of online training videos on Adobe ColdFusion.
Step 2: Complete the online training before you attend the full-day workshop.
Step 3: Attend the live workshop on your chosen date. On passing the assessment, you will receive your Adobe ColdFusion Specialist certificate and badge.
Requirements
All participants are required to bring their own laptop computers with Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) Server and Adobe ColdFusion Builder (2018 release) pre-installed (if you do not already have the 2018 release you can download a free trial within 30 days of the program). Those without the 2018 release will NOT be able to complete or pass the assessment.
The demo files and assets will be emailed to you two weeks prior to the classroom session. These must be completed and reviewed before the on-site classroom session.
The certification is only for CFML Developers and would not be covering features such as API Management Platform and Clustering of Servers.
Agenda
Full-day workshop will be from 9 am – 6 pm. The agenda will cover the following topics in detail:
Introduction to ColdFusion
Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder
ColdFusion Fundamentals
Database Operations
Variable and Data Types
Shared Scopes and Handling State
Application Framework
PDF Operations in CF
Object Oriented ColdFusion
Register Now at https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/adobe-coldfusion-specialist/
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Is this program only available to US residence?
This program is/was available only to those who attended the Adobe CF Summit conference in October. As explained in the post you are responding to, it was available to those who signed up/paid for the program in advance, watched the videos, attended pre-conference workshop, and took the exam AT THE CONFERENCE.
To be clear, there was and is now no provision for any of that to be done after the conference. I have heard that they may offer it at the CF Summit East (in DC, in spring), but no firm plans have been announced.
As for whether they would ever offer the exams other than at conferences, or indeed whether ever at conferences outside the US, again that has not been clarified. But again I seem to recall hearing discussion of hopes to offer it either online or in other countries (perhaps in road show events), but don’t quote me on that.
If the exams can’t be arranged to be online for some reason, we can suspect that the chances for live events will be rather few and far between.
But let’s be clear (to head off comments that would surely come): the people behind the program are not stupid. If they COULD easily arrange for the exam to be online, they would. They certainly DO know that there are other organizations that offer such, and they certainly DO know that there are people who want to get the cert who could NOT attend the live events.
And for all the people who thought “nobody cares about certs anymore”, let alone for a “dead platform like CF”, it sure seems that the clamor and high interest in these certs would suggest again that rumors of its demise are premature.
+1 for expanding certification opportunities beyond CF Summit.
+1 for leveraging a certification process similar to ColdBox’s. Despite my not having personal experience with Ortus’ certification solution (yet), it appears to be an aporach that Adobe and Ortus could mutually benefit from.
I would be interested in seeing this as an offering on edX https://www.edx.org/. Microsoft does something similar with their Data Analysis courses where you can get a Verified Certificate after completion of the course.
Looking forward to the next opportunities Adobe will provide to get this certification for my team!
Are there any changes to download a badge and digital certificate for this program?
Just posted on my exam thoughts blog post that an email came through today with a PDF of the certificate and that the instructions for the digital badge will be coming in the next few weeks.
Yes, I got the email this morning too. Thanks for the update 🙂
Happy to hear abode Adobe ColdFusion certification. I will not able to this join CF Summit. Is there any chances that Adobe is planning to have such summit in India soon?
December 7th, Bengaluru
I am extremely interested in completing a certification in ColdFusion, however I will not be able to attend the CF Summit this year. Will there be other opportunities to complete this program after the summit? Say, by completing a day long online event en lieu of the workshop or by completing a similar workshop at some other event?
If this is a certification for experienced professionals, why on earth are there segments like these?
Introduction to ColdFusion
Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder
ColdFusion Fundamentals
This looks more like a class for beginners who want to cram for a test to get a cert for their resume that in no way reflects their actual retained skill set.
And that’s pretty much how all certs and cert prep courses work, right? At least those focused on the fundamentals of a given tech.
And to be clear, hopefully anyone considering the program (or assessing its value, as an employer) would see the list of topics and realize it is indeed oriented toward confirming CF fundamentals.
I will admit I had higher hopes when I first heard of the program, but once the details were shared, it became clear where it was focused, for better or worse. Just like the CF cert of years ago, it will benefit some folks and not others. There’s been significant registration, and those people would have seen the topic list, so should know what they are getting into. Seems it suits their interests.
Of course, it’s a first presentation of it, and there are bound to be hiccups whether in how it has been marketed, how the course (all new) goes, how the videos go. They (Adobe) will surely learn lessons and hopefully would refine it as needed.
If a developer gets one of these certificates, their posts on this site should note it somehow.
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