Ben Forta
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Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide

ISBN
0321330110
Pages
484
Publisher
Macromedia Press — June 2005

ColdFusion’s popularity continues to grow, and along with that so has the demand for experienced developers. Once upon a time claiming to be a ColdFusion developer was easy – the product was simple enough that with a minimal investment of time and energy developers could realistically consider themselves experts.

This is not the case anymore. The product line has grown both in actual products and in their complexity, and the levels of expertise and experience among developers are diverse. Claiming to be an expert is not that easy, and recognizing legitimate expertise is even harder.

And this is where certification comes into play. Formal official certification helps to mark a threshold that explicitly separates developers by their knowledge and experience, making is possible to identify who is who.

The Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer certification is not an easy exam, and examinees are tested on a wide range of topics – from ColdFusion and CFML to SQL and database concepts to HTML and Internet fundamentals to advanced topics like Web Services and XML integration to UI generation using XForms and Flash Forms. Being Certified as an Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer is even harder, most examinees do not attain this level of certification. And that’s why you need this book

To prepare for your exam you should start at the beginning of the book and systematically work you way through it. The book flow, layout, and form-factor have all been especially designed to make reviewing content as pleasant an experience as possible. The content has been designed to be highly readable, and digestible in small bite sized chunks so that it’ll feel more like reading that studying.

Once you have reviewed all content, reread the topics that you feel you need extra help brushing up on. Topics are all covered in highly focused and very manageable (and cross referenced) chapters so that you can easily drill-down to the exact content you need.

Even after the exam, you’ll find that the style and design of this book makes it an invaluable desktop reference tool as well.

So, grab your copy of this title, book your exam, and get ready to be recognized as one of the best of the best.

Chapter listing

Introduction
1: Web Technology and Terminology
2: Working with Variables and Expressions
3: Conditional Processing
4: Looping
5: Redirects and Reuse
6: The Application Framework
7: Using Databases
8: URL Variables
9: Form Variables
10: Application and Server Variables
11: Session State Management
12: Locking
13: Lists
14: Arrays
15: Structures
16: Flash Forms
17: XForms
18: Printing
19: Reporting
20: Graphing
21: Scripting
22: Dynamic Functions
23: Stored Procedures
24: Transactions
25: Debugging
26: Error Handling
27: Application Security
28: Custom Tags
29: Advanced Custom Tags
30: User-Defined Functions
31: ColdFusion Components
32: Web Services
33: Java, COM, & CORBA
34: XML
35: WDDX
36: Flash Remoting
37: Event Gateways
38: Full Text Searching
39: System Integration
40: Scheduling and Event Execution
41: E-Mail Integration
42: LDAP
43: Other Internet Protocols
44: Basic SQL
45: Joins
46: Aggregates
47: Advanced Database Features
48: Improving Performance
49: Application Performance Tuning
50: Server Performance Tuning
Appendix: Answers to Sample Questions

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